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Using Psychological Reactance and Bandwagon Cues to Explain High School Sports Coaches’ Resistance to Concussion Communucation Policies Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Daniel E. Hartman, Gregory Cranmer
Sport-related concussions (SRC) are a significant health risk for athletes amalgamated by issues with underreporting. Coaches play a pivotal role in promoting safety and health, but coach-player SRC communication efforts have been insufficient at improving players’ reporting behaviors. This study considers coaches’ responses to a proposed mandate to engage in SRC communication with athletes via psychological
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Enhancing Our (Global) Understanding: Reflections on the Need for Reaching Beyond Boundaries Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Marie Hardin, Andrew C. Billings
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“Drive to Survive” Drives New Fans to Formula 1? Studying Viewer Experiences of a Sports Documentary and Its Influence on the Sport’s Fandom Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Dhwanil Shah, Anthony Lamont Williams
This study investigates the influence of the sport docuseries Drive to Survive on Formula 1 fandom. Beyond its added entertainment value, this study was conducted to learn about the docuseries influence in bringing new fans to the sport—along with deepening the connection of existing fans. Semi-structured interviews of twelve participants who watched Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive docuseries
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Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Brian A. Petrotta, Travis R. Bell, Lindsey Meeks
Play-by-play (PxP) broadcasters’ routines and professions are in a state of flux. Even before COVID-19 protocols disrupted PxPs’ professional practices, broadcast networks tried to reduce on-site staff to cut costs. After COVID, some teams and networks opted to not send PxPs on the road while others experimented with artificial intelligence or alternative telecasts (e.g., the “Manningcast”). Whereas
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Examining Discussions Related to Transgender Athletes on Twitter: The Role of Negative Emotion on Message Engagement Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Christopher Calabrese, Xudong Yu, Yoo Jung Oh
Several states have enacted laws prohibiting transgender athletes from competing in sports that align with their gender identity. The present study seeks to explore the role of negative emotions and their relation to the rise of online discussions surrounding transgender athletes. We examined whether posts expressing anger and fear impacted message engagement through capturing all related posts ( N
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Analysing Credibility of Femvertising Campaigns: A Focus on Colombian Female Athletes Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-02 Javier A. Sánchez-Torres, Carolina López Correa, Francisco-Javier Arroyo-Cañada, Ana Argila-Irurita, Fátima Vila-Márquez
Advertising campaigns featuring female athletes have gained significant importance given the positive implications of gender equality, female empowerment and modern social dynamics, in which women play a crucial role, especially in Western societies. However, advertising campaigns in which female athletes are visible can be perceived by the public as false, sometimes known as woman-washing. This study
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Effects of Cohesion With Teammates on Division-I Student-Athletes’ Mental Health: An Application of the Human Need to Belong and Transactional Stress Frameworks Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Gregory A. Cranmer, Emma G. Cox, Rikishi T. Rey, Blair Browning, Leland G. Holbert
Collegiate student-athletes are experiencing an ongoing mental health epidemic, especially concerning anxiety and depression. This study builds upon the meta-theory of the human need to belong and the transactional theory of stress and coping by framing stress as a mediator for the benefits of cohesion between teammates on mental health. Data from 121 Division-I student-athletes demonstrated a fully
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Representatives, Reflection, Roles, and Responsibilities: The Metajournalistic Discourse on the Press Boycott of Naomi Osaka Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-27 Lena Maria Küpper
Metajournalism is the term used in communication science to describe the public discussion of journalism. Studies on how reflexive reporting occurs in sports journalism are rare, which is surprising considering the close sports media intertwining. When tennis player Naomi Osaka declared her intention to skip press conferences during the 2021 French Open to raise awareness of the psychological pressures
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Determinants of Online Live Esports Viewership With Advanced Data: The Case of League of Legends Champions Korea Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-23 Yoonji Ryu, Jaehyun Jeong, Wonseok Jang, Gyemin Lee, Hyunwoong Pyun
With the rapid advancement of technology, esports have become more accessible and widespread on online platforms. The behavior of fans watching live broadcasts online differs from that of those watching on TV or attending stadium events. To understand the online demand for esports, this study examines the determinants of live esports viewership using advanced data from online platforms. We examined
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A Uses and Gratifications-Based Market Segmentation Approach to Football Fans’ Online Media Usage Motivation Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Anina Gächter, Pascal Stegmann, Grazia Lang
With the rise of online media, the Uses and Gratifications approach has experienced a revival in general as well as in sports media research. However, most studies have not considered the variability in online media usage behavior, which indicates a heterogenity in fans’ gratification sought in online media consumption. To account for this heterogenity, this study conducts a cluster analysis based
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“The Planet’s Champion” Daniel Bryan: How WWE Uses Sport, Neoliberalism and Colorblind Ideology in Professional Wrestling Narratives Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Ever Josue Figueroa, Vincent Peña, Krishnan Vasudevan
Daniel Bryan’s WWE Championship reign, from November 13, 2018, to April 7, 2019, provides an interesting case study to analyze the intersection of politics, mediated sport, neoliberalism, and colorblind ideology in professional wrestling storylines. This study conducts uses textual analysis to uncover how WWE utilized Bryan’s reign to communicate ideologies in their weekly programming. The findings
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The Buzz of Brisbane 2032: Themes of Online and Social Media Olympic Sentiment Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Peter English, David Fleischman, Rory Mulcahy, Lenny Vance, Aaron Tham, Merryn Sherwood
Brisbane will stage a more regionally focused Olympics and Paralympics in 2032 when it follows in the footsteps of a series of mega-city hosts. In this new environment, in which there are challenges finding nations willing even to bid for the event, it is important to understand how sentiment is expressed towards this Games edition, which is being promoted as delivering a sustainable legacy while experiencing
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Sports Issues for the Ages: Life Span and Career Span Narratives Ingrained in Sports Culture Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Andrew C. Billings, Marie Hardin
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“You Don’t Want Us to Solve This”: Agenda Setting in the Federal Hearings on Name, Image, and Likeness Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Molly Harry
From 2020 to 2024, the United States Congress held 11 hearings pertaining to name, image, and likeness (NIL). Various stakeholder groups have participated in these hearings including Congress and those looking to “maintain” or “disrupt” college sport and the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Despite the significance of NIL to college athletics, limited research has examined these hearings
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Japanese National Basketball Association Fans and Social Media Acceptance: Exploring the Role of Brand Respect Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Jeongbeom Hahm, Rei Yamashita
This study explores the factors influencing satellite sport fans’ social media engagement, focusing on Japanese National Basketball Association (NBA) fans. Using the technology acceptance model and Brand Respect Scale, we analyzed the effects of perceived usefulness, perceived enjoyment, and perceived trustworthiness on social media stickiness and investigated the mediating roles of brand trust, brand
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Social Media News as a Predictor of Sports Gambling Salience, Attitudes, and Behaviors in the United States Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 R. Lance Holbert, Leland G. Holbert
Gambling has become a more prominent aspect of American sports culture after the 2018 United States Supreme Court decision offered in Murphy v National Collegiate Athletic Association that rendered the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA) unconstitutional. A secondary analysis of 2022 PEW American Trends Panel (ATP) data ( N = 3900) explores social media news exposure and satisfaction
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Answering the Question on a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance and Persistence in US Sporting Representations Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Marie Hardin, Andrew C. Billings
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Playing (& Smoking) by the Rules: Sport Media’s Racialized Coverage of Athlete Drug Use Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Patrick Crowe, Vincent Peña
Sports media research has often found that athletes are depicted differently based on stereotypes attached to their racialized bodies, and often along a Black/white racial binary. Furthermore, Black men often receive more and harsher penalties for drug use compared to all other racial and gender categories. Using critical discourse analysis, this study explores how NFL athletes who either openly admitted
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Telecasting Tokyo to a Locked Down Nation: Australian Broadcast Coverage of the 2020 Olympic Summer Games Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Olan Kees Martin Scott, Michael Van Bussel, Bo (Norman) Li, Adam T. Pappas, Gillian Golosky, Victoria Dewar
This study explored how nationalism was perpetuated by the Seven Network’s broadcasting of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games during a time, in which much of Australia was in various forms of Covid-19 lockdowns. Self-categorization theory was used to analyze all the primetime coverage of the Seven Network’s main channel for name mentions, description of success or failure, and personality and physicality
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“I Feel Qatari Today […] I Feel Disabled Today, […] I Feel Like a Migrant Worker Today…”: On Sport, Leadership, and Moral Legitimacy Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Yoseph Z. Mamo, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Simon Chadwick, Damon P. S. Andrew
This study examines the public’s perceptions of a speech delivered by FIFA’s president in a press conference one day before the Qatar 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup. In total, 34,714 publicly available user responses were collected from news media YouTube channels in North America, Europe, and Asia, as well as from Twitter hashtags related to the press conference. This user-generated content was analyzed
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Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Brigid McCarthy
This paper analyses news media coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic skateboarding competition, which paid significant and celebratory attention to the extraordinary youth of the medallists in the women’s disciplines. The coverage was marked by a postfeminist sensibility that constituted the girl-child skater via a ubiquitous and enduring girl power discourse, and idealised them as sites of extraordinary
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“I Just Learn a Single Phrase:” Language Acquisition and Cultural Fusion in Professional Baseball Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Patrick C. Gentile, Luke A. Skuratowicz, Zachary W. Arth
This paper seeks to understand how Americans in the professional baseball community communicate with Spanish-speaking players. To further uncover how English-speaking players interact with their Spanish-speaking counterparts, 22 interviews were conducted with American members of the baseball community. Through the purview of cultural fusion theory, this article seeks to understand how English and Spanish-speaking
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A (Meta) Picture is Worth a Thousand “Likes:” An Analysis of Engagement with Sports Network Images on Instagram Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rich G. Johnson, Miles Romney, Kevin John
Previous studies on sports images have often focused on gender and race representation. However, with the rise of social media, sports photographers worldwide are fighting professionally produced and user-created images for audience attention. Recent scholarship has shown that stronger storytelling elements in sports photographs spur an increase in lower-level engagement metrics. The current study
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Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Andrew Dix
The current study focused on the red cards and yellow cards that referees gave to historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in Division I women’s college soccer for their in-game communicative actions. These cards are distributed to players who are perceived to have engaged in a reckless play or an action that involved excessive force. Within the United States, HBCUs are institutions of
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Narrative Storytelling as a Fan Conversion Tool in the Netflix Docuseries Drive to Survive Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Caroline Soble, Mark Lowes
This paper explores how narrative storytelling converts individuals into sport fans. Data were collected through content analysis of Netflix’s Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Rhetorical criticism was applied to narrative elements identified in this popular docuseries. The conceptual framework drew from existing theories to detail how narrative storytelling effectively engages audiences and facilitates
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Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Zachary W. Arth, Mackenzie P. Pike, Patrick C. Gentile, Brandon Bruce, Daniel Capuano
The 2023 World Baseball Classic (WBC) featured over 600 players representing 20 countries. Due to relaxed eligibility requirements, over one quarter of the players represented countries that differed from their birth nation. Through the lens of Social Identity Theory, the guiding research question of this study asked how identity is enacted and discussed when player nationality either aligns or does
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Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Peter Mikuláš, Alice Nemcova Tejkalova
In this paper we focus on the posthumous media image of the deceased professional ice hockey player Pavol Demitra. He was a world-famous athlete, starring in both the NHL and KHL, but this paper primarily focuses on his fame in Slovakia, his native country. Demitra became a legend in his own lifetime, but his story only gained its true shape after he had died. The media played a dominant role in this
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Racing With a Purpose: Sustainability in Formula E Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Walker J. Ross, Michael Pfahl, Sylvia Trendafilova
This study examined the seasonal sustainability reporting of Formula E for its content, variation, and linearity. Formula E was chosen since it was built as a sustainable sport enterprise rather than one which integrated sustainability into existing operations and for the accessibility of its annual sustainability reports. Using an exploratory approach for content and variation, and the Green Waves
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Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Andrew C. Billings, Marie Hardin
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Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Kevin Hull
For decades, one of the most recognizable public faces of a local television news station was the sports anchor. However, as newsrooms across the United States struggle with employee burnout, sports departments have not been immune to low job satisfaction and high turnover. The purpose of this study is to examine what factors are causing sportscasters at local television stations to leave the profession
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Rare Sites and White Saviours? Gendered Orientalism, Radicalization, and the Construction of Muslim Women Soccer Players in TSN’s Radical Play Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Adam Ehsan Ali
In 2016, Canada sports broadcaster TSN aired a documentary, Radical Play, which focuses on the players of football team Diverse City FC, many of whom are Muslim and wear hijabs. As posited in the documentary, following the lifting of FIFA’s ban on the wearing of the hijab, soccer became the women’s vehicle for gaining more confidence and agency, which they use to become social media “crusaders” who
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Mapping the Field: A Content Analysis of Marketable NCAA Athletes’ Social Media Self-Presentation Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Claire V. Wanzer, Emily J. Pfender, Nicole P. Travis, Amy Bleakley
The following study applies the framework of self-presentation theory to examine one year of posts ( n = 1064) from the TikTok and Instagram accounts of 18 highly marketable NCAA athletes. A content analysis was used to examine differences by platform, gender, and content type following the approval of NIL compensation for collegiate athletes. Findings revealed significant differences between male
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The Construction of Human Rights Narratives in the 2022 World Cup: A Critical Examination of US and Qatari News Coverage Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Harrison J. LeJeune, Téwodros W. Workneh
This study examines the tensions in the representations of human rights discourses in the context of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Primarily drawing from postcolonial approaches, it investigates how the construction of human rights narratives were deployed by two leading publications representing US ( The New York Times—NYT) and Qatari ( Gulf Times—GT) viewpoints. In doing so, the study probes
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Sports News in Five Arab Countries: A Comparative Study of Journalistic Role Performance Across Platforms and Sources Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Claudia Kozman, Lanfu (Randolph) Liu
This study examines journalistic role performance in sports news in five Arab countries in relation to country, geographic frame, platforms, and sources. The comparative content analysis of three journalistic roles – loyal-facilitator, watchdog, and infotainment – in Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) relies on 874 sports news stories from 40 print, broadcast, and online
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The Role of Gender in Evaluating Athletes’ Endorsements of Corporate Social Advocacy Initiatives Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Kenon A. Brown, Joshua R. Jackson, Mackenzie Quick, Vernon Ray Harrison
When considering that athletes are becoming more vocal about their beliefs related to social justice initiatives, the role of an athlete’s gender could have an impact on how sports fans view that athlete. When deciding to support or oppose a corporate social advocacy initiative, it can be argued that an individual’s perception of an athlete’s or team’s stance towards social justice can be influenced
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Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?” Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Umer Hussain, Steve Bien-Aimé
In the extant scholarship, there remains a paucity of research underscoring how Western media frame the identity of Muslim men athletes from diverse backgrounds who challenge the colonial sporting institution (e.g., cricket) with the allegation of racism. There is also a significant lacuna in literature exploring how the identity of a Muslim man athlete is shaped in Eastern media, ensuing his racial
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Core and Catalyst Criteria Motivating CrossFit Athletes to Reveal or Conceal Their Non-Visible Health Conditions Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Shana Makos, Charee M. Thompson
Despite robust literature concerning the illness disclosure decision making process, it remains unclear how individuals choose to reveal and conceal non-visible health conditions in group exercise. At the intersection of non-visible illness management and group exercise, the purpose of this study is to apply communication privacy management theory (CPM) to better understand the core and catalyst criteria
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Mechanisms of Emotional Experiences of Online Spectators of E-Sports Events From the Perspective of Interactive Ritual Chain Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Jing Zhang, Danning Zhang, Guangquan Dai
E-sports events play a crucial role as significant entertainment activities and platforms for emotional interaction among the public. This study seeks to delve into the processes underlying the emotional experiences of online spectators during interactive rituals within e-sports events. It employs the core concept of emotional energy within interaction ritual chains as framework for analysis. To accomplish
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Questioning Sports Journalists: Stereotypes, Work Routines, and Color-Blind Racism in Sports Press Conferences Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Vincent Peña, Mary Angela Bock
Sports scholars have long studied how stereotypes pervade sports. However, little if any of this research has examined the origins of these stereotypes and how they influence journalistic practice. This study explores sports journalists’ work routines, their perception of stereotypes in sports, and whether there is a connection between the two. The authors conduct a critical discourse analysis of in-depth
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The Popularity Gap: Effects of Social Status on the Visibility of Lifestyle Sports Stars on Instagram Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Joshua Woods, Leah Oldham, Stephanie House-Niamke, Matthew Hartwell
Social media provides athletes with opportunities to enhance their personal brands, engage with fans, and access professional opportunities. Several studies have examined how athletes use social media to attract and engage large audiences. Less is known about the social forces that enable and constrain their popularity. Drawing on expectation states theory, this study considers how athletes’ social
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Sports Media Research in the Slovenian Context: Mapping Trends and Suggestions for the Future Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Kaja Poteko
This article provides an overview and analysis of how the study of sport at the intersection with the media has developed in the Slovenian context over the last three decades. The first part of the article briefly explains the importance and role of sport and media in the broader social context. By looking in particular at sports journalism and introducing the Slovenian context, the purpose of the
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The Alphafly Outcry: Distance Running, Technological Doping, and the Rhetoric of Stigma Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 Mike Milford
Eliud Kipchoge’s sub-two-hour marathon in 2019 generated both wide-ranging celebration and stern denigration from members of the running community. The latter, motivated by an unexpectedly superior...
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The Beginning of a Reckoning: An Application of Situational Crisis Communication Theory and Image Repair to the National Women’s Soccer League Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Evan Frederick, Samuel Schmidt, Ann Pegoraro
The purpose of this study was to examine the crisis of systemic sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and misconduct in the NWSL within the frameworks of situational crisis communication theory (SCCT) a...
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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Donna Wong, Yue Meng-Lewis
Affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were postponed for a year. While getting through with the organizing of an Olympic Games amid a global pandemic is see...
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Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Daniel Nölleke, Gregory Perreault
As journalism has suffered financial and institutional setbacks globally, this has given rise to so-called peripheral actors in numerous subfields of journalism. In sports journalism, this is refle...
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Fear of Missing Out: An Antecedent of Online Fan Engagement of Sport Teams’ Social Media Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Younghan Lee, Sangwon Na
Fear of Missing Out (FoMO) is the apprehension stemming from missing out on social interactions, and it is a salient motive for sport consumption. Sport fans are active and engaged on social media,...
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A Sense of Belonging: A Qualitative Investigation Into the Origination of Collegiate Sport Fanship and Fandom Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-26 Nathan A. Towery
A qualitative study utilizing interviews was used to identify the core motivations for the origination of collegiate sport fanship and fandom in the American Southeast. The sample included 20 indiv...
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Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Katherine Holland, Steven K. Holland, Justin A. Haegele
This study explored how one United States-based sports media company (SMC) represents disability through their Twitter account. A directed content analysis approach was utilized to analyze the twee...
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“Putting His Off-Field Issues Aside…”: Exploring Online Sport Fan Community Response to Allegations Against Deshaun Watson Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Jacob Nason
In March 2022, a Texas grand jury chose not to indict NFL quarterback Deshaun Watson with sexual misconduct, facilitating his trade from the Houston Texans to the Cleveland Browns. This study used ...
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“She’s Twice Their Age”: Representations of Aging and the Creation of an Age Order in Women’s Gymnastics Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Kristi A. Allain, Stephanie Dotto
Elite-level women’s artistic gymnastics is (in)famous for the youth of its competitors. Yet if age representation constructs the limits and possibilities of sport, it is important to explore the ef...
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“Save Our Spikes”: Social Media Advocacy and Fan Reaction to the End of Minor League Baseball Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Virginia S. Harrison, Joseph Bober, Christen Buckley, Victoria Vallos
On October 18, 2019, The New York Times reported that Major League Baseball was eliminating more than 40 teams from its minor league system. Fourteen months later, some teams permanently ceased ope...
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Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (2018-2022) Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-18 Peter English, Richard Murray
The marching of North and South Korea under one flag at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony was celebrated as a step towards greater harmony in the region. North Korea...
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Exploring the Dark Side of Esports Online Spectatorship: Passion as a Mediator and Collective Narcissism as a Moderator Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Tyreal Yizhou Qian, Katja Sonkeng, Lei Luo
The rise of esports as an emerging spectator phenomenon has led to a growing number of esports fans who participate in online discussions and communities. With a larger and more diverse fan base, t...
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“They Don’t Really Care about my Results, they Prefer Selling my Life Story.” Inspirational Paralympians and Sponsorship Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Yann Beldame, Helene Joncheray, Valentine Duquesne, Rémi Richard
This article intends to analyze the links that Paralympic athletes and their staff members establish between the Paralympic athletes’ self-presentation as cyborgs or supercrips and their access to ...
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Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-08 Gregory A. Cranmer, Rikishi T. Rey, Johnny Capra, Blair Browning, Michael Sollitto
Leader-member exchange theory (LMX) has proliferated as a framework for understanding coach-athlete interactions, as the exchanges of communicative resources greatly influence athletes’ sporting ex...
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“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-04 Brendan O’Hallarn, Mark Slavich, Betsy Emmons
The community-moderated content aggregation social media site Reddit has emerged as a popular destination for discussion of topics of interest in news, sport, and entertainment. This study explored...
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Naming and Lower Cases as Diplomatic Tools in Sport? The Case of ‘SPAIN v. kosovo’ During Qatar 2022 World Cup Qualifiers Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Fernando Gutiérrez-Chico, Carlos Pulleiro Méndez
This research focuses on the Spanish strategy to balance its political non-recognition of Kosovo and the respect to the Balkan country’s full membership in FIFA and UEFA. Considering the relevance ...
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Trolligans: Conceptual Links Between Trolling and Hooliganism in Sports and Esports Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Christine L. Cook, Vei-Matti Karhulahti, Guy Harrison, Nicholas D. Bowman
Both game-based trolling and hooliganism have existed in some form since the inception of online gaming and professional sports respectively. The two share many characteristics: provocation of an o...
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A Space of One’s Own? The Tensions of Being Visible on Instagram for Turkish Female Athletes Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 İrem Kavasoğlu, Yeliz Eratlı Şirin, Aylin Uğurlu
In this study, we seek to understand how Turkish female athletes who are active on Instagram experience cyber violence, the cultural context of that violence, and the ways in which athletes negotia...
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The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 2020 Communication & Sport (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Yoav Dubinsky
The purpose of the article is to explore the use of judo for nation branding, public diplomacy, and country image in the postponed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Judo was founded in Japan in 1882 as a m...