{"id":291,"date":"2026-02-20T04:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T04:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/?p=291"},"modified":"2026-02-20T05:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:56:14","slug":"social-media-persona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/2026\/02\/20\/social-media-persona\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Media Persona"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-857140474aa154d3bced52669c395c92\">This assignment was&nbsp;somewhat challenging&nbsp;for me. I am not really the type to post a lot of social media, and when I&nbsp;do it&nbsp;is mostly&nbsp;inconsistent&nbsp;and boring, so&nbsp;by looking at my&nbsp;social media&nbsp;you&nbsp;wouldn&#8217;t&nbsp;really be able to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;a&nbsp;persona.&nbsp;Therefore,&nbsp;I decided to&nbsp;create&nbsp;a sport-related&nbsp;social media persona&nbsp;from scratch, both because of some of the things I previously mentioned but also to keep&nbsp;my&nbsp;main&nbsp;social media&nbsp;channels&nbsp;private&nbsp;and&nbsp;semi-anonymous.&nbsp;And so, I started to brainstorm some ideas&nbsp;for my sport-related social media&nbsp;persona; my focus was for it to be something&nbsp;chill, something people can see and&nbsp;find&nbsp;funny, a bit ridiculous,&nbsp;and&nbsp;somewhat unbelievable&nbsp;and incredible.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9aa3554019c24b7888dac6b14e0cdc8c\">After&nbsp;analyzing&nbsp;some of my&nbsp;options,&nbsp;I&nbsp;came up with&nbsp;the \u201cSport Runner\u201d.&nbsp;With&nbsp;this title you may think it has something to do with running,&nbsp;and in fact does but not the way most people would think. Instead of running marathons or 5ks, my social media persona&nbsp;runs fields and courts of his favorite teams,&nbsp;basically like&nbsp;streaking, but with clothes and fully legal (previously agreed upon with the organizations). This idea came from my curiosity for this type of activity, like field&nbsp;invasions&nbsp;at the end of games etc., but since I am too scared to do it myself, and since I am a&nbsp;law&nbsp;abiding&nbsp;citizen,&nbsp;I decided to make up an imaginary social media persona instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-25a5092d32840aaad9b6dc991a35bdc3\">The&nbsp;places where the \u201cSport Runner\u201d&nbsp;was going to&nbsp;run&nbsp;at&nbsp;were&nbsp;easy&nbsp;for me to decide. As&nbsp;they are the fields or arenas&nbsp;of my favorite teams or just&nbsp;iconic&nbsp;places,&nbsp;I thought it would be cool to run at. He started by running on the Stadium of Light (stadium of Benfica), then Camp Nou (stadium of Barcelona), the&nbsp;American Airlines Center (the Dallas Mavericks arena), the&nbsp;Huntington Bank Field&nbsp;(the Cleveland Browns stadium), and to finish the journey he returned to the Stadium of Light.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Happy for the opportunity to run the Stadium of Light pitch!!!<br>Hopefully the first of many \ud83e\udd1e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HhefaCO8F1\">pic.twitter.com\/HhefaCO8F1<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sport.Runner (@SportRunner9760) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportRunner9760\/status\/2024691868441649290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today I got to run on a packed Camp Nou! Great Athmosphere.<br>Just wish somebody took a better picture \ud83d\ude02\ud83d\ude02 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2AFXMnLv92\">pic.twitter.com\/2AFXMnLv92<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sport.Runner (@SportRunner9760) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportRunner9760\/status\/2024693657769582601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Running alongside one of my favorite players in my favorite NBA arena wasn&#39;t on bingo card lol <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2V1dxPSe2G\">pic.twitter.com\/2V1dxPSe2G<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sport.Runner (@SportRunner9760) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportRunner9760\/status\/2024696938306687177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ended my US running tour by running the endzone of Huntington Bank Field \ud83d\udc36\ud83d\udc36 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yKm8pXOd1q\">pic.twitter.com\/yKm8pXOd1q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sport.Runner (@SportRunner9760) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportRunner9760\/status\/2024698365347237987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Finished my journey by going to where it all started!<br>Running the Stadium of Light for a final time <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OZmlmwrRXW\">pic.twitter.com\/OZmlmwrRXW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sport.Runner (@SportRunner9760) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportRunner9760\/status\/2024699843726229757?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This assignment was&nbsp;somewhat challenging&nbsp;for me. I am not really the type to post a lot of social media, and when I&nbsp;do it&nbsp;is mostly&nbsp;inconsistent&nbsp;and boring, so&nbsp;by looking at my&nbsp;social media&nbsp;you&nbsp;wouldn&#8217;t&nbsp;really be able to&nbsp;identify&nbsp;a&nbsp;persona.&nbsp;Therefore,&nbsp;I decided to&nbsp;create&nbsp;a sport-related&nbsp;social media persona&nbsp;from scratch, both because of some of the things I previously mentioned but also to keep&nbsp;my&nbsp;main&nbsp;social media&nbsp;channels&nbsp;private&nbsp;and&nbsp;semi-anonymous.&nbsp;And so, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/2026\/02\/20\/social-media-persona\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social Media Persona<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/tiagomartinssportsjournal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}