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Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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 3.183) 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...
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Still Battling for Equity: Examining Biological Sex Portrayals Through the Lens of the Gold Coast During Australian Prime Time Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2023-01-22 Olan Scott, Bo Li, James Bingaman
This study examined differences in the Seven Network’s primetime coverage of male and female athletes who participated at the 2018 Commonwealth Games that were held in Australia. Over 31 hours of t...
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Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates: The Role of Issue and Source Involvement in Students’ Information Processing about Binge Drinking Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2023-01-19 Sai Datta Mikkilineni, Gregory A. Cranmer, Erin Ash, Bryan E. Denham
Binge drinking is a major public health concern on college campuses and shares a deep connection to sporting culture. As such, student-athletes are potential referent points for addressing this des...
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Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 2020 Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Cerianne Robertson
How Olympics reporters understand the Games and their role within them has implications for what and how they report. At stake in journalists’ storytelling choices are the representations of the Ol...
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Storying the Gender Binary in Sport: Narrative Motifs Among Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming Athletes Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Alaina C. Zanin, Lore/tta LeMaster, Lucy C. Niess, Haley Lucero
This study utilized a two-tiered, thematic and structural narrative analysis to understand the ways transgender, gender non-conforming (TGNC) athletes story their experiences of sport. All particip...
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Middle Aged Men in Lycra and the Performative Irony of Watching Tour de France Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2023-01-03 Ulrik Wagner, Stine Frydendal, Maria Hybholt
Middle Aged Man in Lycra (MAMIL) is a cultural phenomenon associated with a gendered and conspicuous practice that can be inclusive by attracting individuals not previously engaged in physical acti...
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Exploring Emotional and Cognitive Priming Effects in Mediated Sports Using Psychophysiological Measures: How Sport Program-Induced Emotions and Ad Schema Congruity Influence Effectiveness of Advertising Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read
The purpose of current study was to examine (1) the emotion transfer effect from sport programs and (2) program-ad congruity effects on the effectiveness of ads. A 2 (program-induced valence: pleas...
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Systematic Sexism: Women’s Sports News in a Circle of Gatekeepers and Users on Twitter Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Bünyamin Ayhan, Yavuz Demir
The main purpose of this research is to determine how conventional and digital sports content producers in Turkey present women’s sports news on Twitter, as well as “how much, where, how, why, and ...
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It’s Okay to be Not Okay: An Analysis of Twitter Responses to Naomi Osaka’s Withdrawal due to Mental Health Concerns Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Zhijing Chen, Dae Hee Kwak
An increasing number of athletes are speaking out on different social issues. There is also a growing acceptance and expectations of athletes utilizing their influence to push for social change. In...
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“Dabo Wears Male Rompers”: Examining Expressions of Hegemonic Masculinity and Identity in ESPN’s College GameDay Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-11-16 Katie Lever
It has long been held that sport functions as a site of identity and belonging. Identity is also a key element that lays the framework for elite sport and social gathering as well as fan identifica...
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“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Joaquín Marín-Montín, Paula Bianchi
Violence in sports has the greatest impact in the media, especially on television. In the case of refereeing, although there are studies that have specifically addressed violence, those performed o...
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A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Colm Kearns, Gary Sinclair, Jack Black, Mark Doidge, Thomas Fletcher, Daniel Kilvington, Katie Liston, Theo Lynn, Pierangelo Rosati
The rise of online hate speech in sports is a growing concern, with fans, players and officials subject to racist, sexist and homophobic abuse (in addition to many other prejudices) via social medi...
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Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Collective Voice in Women’s Sports Media Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Monica Crawford
This qualitative textual analysis considers “voice” in a new sports media platform Just Women’s Sports. Using communicative injustice and collective voice as its theoretical framework, this study c...
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‘Your Strength Is Inspirational’: How Naomi Osaka’s Twitter Announcement Destigmatizes Mental Health Disclosures Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Sushma Kumble, Pratiti Diddi, Steve Bien-Aimé
On May 31, 2021, Naomi Osaka, one of the top-ranked female tennis players, and one of the highest-paid female athletes in the world, announced her withdrawal from the French Open on her social medi...
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You Gotta Be There: A Thematic Content Analysis of the Historically Black College and University Sporting Experience Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-09-16 Sayvon JL. Foster
The college sport landscape is a unique arena where institutional and social norms merge with an erratic, but highly-traditioned, sporting space. While the broader scope of college sport is framed ...
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“A Beautiful Experience”: The Cultural Transitions of Latin American Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Players Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Patrick C. Gentile, Zachary W. Arth
This article aims to understand how Latino Minor League Baseball (MiLB) players describe their cultural transitions to life in the United States (US) while pursuing baseball professionally. Moreove...
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Rediscovering Mediatization of Sport Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-09-09 Simon Ličen, Kirsten Frandsen, Thomas Horky, Chuka Onwumechili, Wei Wei
Throughout the last decade, the term “mediatization” has attracted a great deal of attention among a growing number of scholars with an interest in the media and sport nexus (e.g., Frandsen, 2020; Hutchins, 2019; Wenner & Billings, 2017; Whannel, 2013). The term indicates “all the transformations of communicative and social processes (…) which follow from our increasing reliance on technologically
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Less Partisan and Less Aggressive? The Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Discourse of “El Clásico” on Spanish Radio Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Rául Martínez Corcuera, Max Mauro
The football rivalry between Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona is one of the most popular at club level globally. In Spain, where it is known as El Clásico (the Classic), it has an unrivalled status ...
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Baseball Made ‘Whole’: Rhetorical Hierarchy and Post-racial Discourse in Major League Baseball’s Inclusion of the Negro Leagues Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Joseph M. Faina
In December 2020, Major League Baseball announced a decision to formally include records of Negro League Baseball games as ‘official’ Major League status. Against the backdrop of widespread protest...
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Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism? Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-08-16 Dongdong Yang, David J. Atkin, Michael Mudrick, Yuren Qin
A major challenge facing female sportscasters resides in their being frequently judged based on physical appearance. However, little is known about the influence of audience perceptions of female s...
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Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Shannon Scovel, Monica Nelson, Holly Thorpe
In this paper, we draw upon Hallin’s typology of journalistic writing to examine the role of the media in framing transgender participation in sport as a ‘legitimate controversy’, and thus up for p...
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#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Qingru Xu, Sitong Guo, Eunhui Kim
The purpose of this study is to explore Chinese and U.S. athlete self-presentation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. By examining 1200 photographs posted by Olympians on social media, this study finds th...
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Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-06-30 Daniel Burdsey, Enrico Michelini, Sine Agergaard
Following the global “refugee crisis” of 2015, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Refugee Olympic Team (ROT), providing opportunities for refugee athletes to compete at the 2016 and 2020 (2021) Summer Olympics. To examine the changing intertwinements between wider social dynamics and mediated constructions of refugees, this article considers the IOC’s representation of the ROT
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Mediatization in Times of Pandemic: How German Grassroots Sports Clubs Employed Digital Media to Overcome Communication Challenges During COVID-19 Communication & Sport (IF 3.183) Pub Date : 2022-06-24 Christiana Schallhorn, Daniel Nölleke, Philip Sinner, Christof Seeger, Jörg-Uwe Nieland, Thomas Horky, Katja Mehler
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on all societal domains, including sports. Social distancing measures and the closure of sports facilities posed especially severe challenges for grassroots sports clubs, which thrive on joint activities and member social contact. Drawing on mediatization theory, the study examines the communication challenges faced by grassroots sports clubs and the perceived