Pub Date : 2025-10-28DOI: 10.1177/21674795251392857
Dunja Antunovic, Monica Crawford, Kimberly Soltis, Taylor Daly, Ariel Yang
Recent years have seen rising interest in and growing visibility of women’s sports. Concurrent with this “boom” in women’s sports are changing dynamics in the broader media landscape that affect news production both within and beyond the sports department. This study utilizes a place-based approach to understand how the places of news production play a role in journalists’ perceptions of the rising visibility of women’s sports and the resources they encounter when producing women’s sports coverage. Drawing on interviews with 39 journalists working within one state in the Midwestern United States, our findings indicate that the contextual factors specific to the sports and media markets of a geographic region are key to journalists’ approaches to women’s sports coverage. Local success and hometown connections are valuable resources, while journalists navigate barriers to “being there” and structural realignments of newsrooms.
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Pub Date : 2025-10-25DOI: 10.1177/21674795251391153
Chris Corr, Robert Hoffman
Patriarchy in collegiate athletics is perpetuated through structural hierarchies and the pervasive use of patriarchal and paternalistic discourse by authority figures – primarily coaches and administrators. These individuals position themselves as guardians of athlete welfare and decision-making, often employing language that frames their oversight as protective and benevolent. However, such discourse reinforces a structural hierarchy that infantilizes athletes and undermines their autonomy. This research critically examined the ways in which patriarchal and paternalistic language operates within the institutional setting of collegiate athletics. Conducting an analysis of coach and athlete interviews ( n = 446), the study reveals how paternalistic narratives normalize dependency and constrain athletes’ self-determination. The findings highlight the ways that infantilizing rhetoric serves to legitimize hierarchical control and justify the marginalization of athlete voices, particularly in areas of representation, monetization, and the broader commercialization of college sports.
{"title":"Big Games, Little Voices: Patriarchy and Power at SEC Football Media Days","authors":"Chris Corr, Robert Hoffman","doi":"10.1177/21674795251391153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251391153","url":null,"abstract":"Patriarchy in collegiate athletics is perpetuated through structural hierarchies and the pervasive use of patriarchal and paternalistic discourse by authority figures – primarily coaches and administrators. These individuals position themselves as guardians of athlete welfare and decision-making, often employing language that frames their oversight as protective and benevolent. However, such discourse reinforces a structural hierarchy that infantilizes athletes and undermines their autonomy. This research critically examined the ways in which patriarchal and paternalistic language operates within the institutional setting of collegiate athletics. Conducting an analysis of coach and athlete interviews ( <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">n</jats:italic> = 446), the study reveals how paternalistic narratives normalize dependency and constrain athletes’ self-determination. The findings highlight the ways that infantilizing rhetoric serves to legitimize hierarchical control and justify the marginalization of athlete voices, particularly in areas of representation, monetization, and the broader commercialization of college sports.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145397386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-09DOI: 10.1177/21674795251384300
Muhammad Awais
Sport communication has become an increasingly global field, but patterns of scholarly influence remain uneven. This study analyzes 2,928 sport communication articles indexed in the Scopus database, published until July 31, 2025. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), it identifies ten dominant themes ranging from digital fan engagement to gendered discourse and evaluates each by publication volume and citation impact (RQ1). It also assesses how author affiliation in the Global North or South relates to citation performance (RQ2), and whether thematic focus interacts with geographic region in ways that correspond with differences in visibility (RQ3). Results show that commercially oriented themes attract higher citations and are dominated by Global North scholars, while Global South authors remain under cited even within shared themes. Mixed region collaborations tend to improve citation metrics but fall short of addressing deeper structural inequalities. These disparities highlight systemic citation asymmetries that intersect with broader epistemic hierarchies within academic publishing. The study offers a critical, data driven contribution to debates on inclusion, impact, and thematic stratification in global sport communication.
{"title":"Global North vs Global South: Mapping the Bibliometric and Thematic Landscape of Sport Communication Research","authors":"Muhammad Awais","doi":"10.1177/21674795251384300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251384300","url":null,"abstract":"Sport communication has become an increasingly global field, but patterns of scholarly influence remain uneven. This study analyzes 2,928 sport communication articles indexed in the Scopus database, published until July 31, 2025. Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), it identifies ten dominant themes ranging from digital fan engagement to gendered discourse and evaluates each by publication volume and citation impact (RQ1). It also assesses how author affiliation in the Global North or South relates to citation performance (RQ2), and whether thematic focus interacts with geographic region in ways that correspond with differences in visibility (RQ3). Results show that commercially oriented themes attract higher citations and are dominated by Global North scholars, while Global South authors remain under cited even within shared themes. Mixed region collaborations tend to improve citation metrics but fall short of addressing deeper structural inequalities. These disparities highlight systemic citation asymmetries that intersect with broader epistemic hierarchies within academic publishing. The study offers a critical, data driven contribution to debates on inclusion, impact, and thematic stratification in global sport communication.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"86 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145255660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-03DOI: 10.1177/21674795251385867
Josh T. L. Anderson, Yara Acaf, Leonard Memon, Xiaotong Liu, Nicole Butterbaugh, Chris Imbrogno, Jingyue Tao, Natalie Brown-Devlin
Sport and politics are often intertwined, as political and social issues “play out” during a game. Not all sports media consumers may read the same news topics as political, however. By analyzing data from three years of cross-sectional surveys of sports fans in the United States, we generate inferences about how political perceptions of sports media topics may vary by political party and other key variables. Guided by social identity theory, results support the idea that social identification with a person’s political group may be associated with seeing some sports media topics as more political and may increase partisan differences in political perceptions. By contrast, social identification with being a sports fan may have the opposite relationship for some sports media topics. Political efficacy may also decrease partisan differences for some sports media topics. These results are discussed in the context of contemporary political debate around sports issues.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-15DOI: 10.1177/21674795251378770
Daniel Vogler, Manuel Arrigo
Major sport events attract large audiences, making them an attractive platform for political actors seeking to engage the public. However, to date, there is little research on how the public perceives mediatized political incidents during sports events. This study examines the intersection of sports and political communication by analyzing how audiences perceive political incidents during the UEFA Euro 2024 football tournament. Using survey data from Switzerland ( n = 435), we investigate the extent to which individuals were exposed to political incidents during the tournament and whether news consumption, social media use, and watching broadcasts of games were related to the exposure and recall of these events. The study shows that political incidents related to the tournament reached a large audience. Self-reported exposure to political incidents was positively related to news consumption and interest in politics and sports. However, the ability of participants to recall specific political incidents was positively associated with watching broadcasts of games and interest in politics, but not with news or social media consumption. The large reach of politics on the pitch and the controversial matter of the incidents captured in our study highlight both the potential and risks of politics in sports for society.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1177/21674795251377394
Yavuz Demir
This study examines gender-based online harassment directed at female football players in Türkiye by analyzing 1,739 comments posted on YouTube following the inaugural official women’s football match between Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray on December 7, 2021. Employing a qualitative netnographic methodology and thematic content analysis with MAXQDA, four primary themes were identified: (1) the devaluation of women’s football and the perpetuation of hegemonic masculinity, (2) online misogyny and gendered comparisons, (3) ironic sexism, and (4) supportive discourse and positive attitudes toward women’s football. While these findings reflect global patterns that undermine women’s sport, they indicate that in Türkiye such dynamics assume particular significance. Online misogyny and homophobic tropes intersect with entrenched patriarchal and institutional structures, producing a “double-whammy” effect that simultaneously marginalizes female athletes and reinforces broader cultural hierarchies. At the same time, supportive commentary demonstrates that digital platforms function as contested arenas in which patriarchal norms are both challenged and reproduced. This ambivalence highlights the tentative yet visible emergence of counter-narratives affirming women’s participation and equality in football. Overall, the study illustrates how global forms of gender-based online harassment acquire distinctive local meanings, positioning women’s football as a contested site for negotiating gender, modernity, and visibility in digital spaces.
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Pub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1177/21674795251377982
Sanghyeon Kim, Adam Karg, Tim Breitbarth, Katherine Raw
This study presents a comprehensive taxonomy of media technology used in live sport, addressing a critical gap in the sport media and management literature. Despite the growing presence of media technologies in live sport contexts, conceptual clarity around their classification remains limited. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of media articles, this research identifies key technological characteristics and maps their manifestations across diverse sport media environments. As a result, the Live Sport Media Technology (LSMT) taxonomy was developed around three overarching categories: Core, Experience, and Smart technologies. These categories reflect the different roles technologies play in enabling, enhancing, and innovating live sport media. Findings reveal two key trends: the increasing technological convergence across media platforms, and the growing personalisation of the sport viewing experience through user-controlled and system-driven technologies. These developments are reshaping the boundaries between production and consumption. This study provides a foundational and structured framework for future research, offering practical guidance for sport media-related organisations navigating the complex media technology landscape and its rapidly evolving interplay between technology, content, and audiences.
{"title":"Mapping Live Sport Media Technologies: Developing a Taxonomy","authors":"Sanghyeon Kim, Adam Karg, Tim Breitbarth, Katherine Raw","doi":"10.1177/21674795251377982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251377982","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a comprehensive taxonomy of media technology used in live sport, addressing a critical gap in the sport media and management literature. Despite the growing presence of media technologies in live sport contexts, conceptual clarity around their classification remains limited. Drawing on qualitative content analysis of media articles, this research identifies key technological characteristics and maps their manifestations across diverse sport media environments. As a result, the Live Sport Media Technology (LSMT) taxonomy was developed around three overarching categories: Core, Experience, and Smart technologies. These categories reflect the different roles technologies play in enabling, enhancing, and innovating live sport media. Findings reveal two key trends: the increasing technological convergence across media platforms, and the growing personalisation of the sport viewing experience through user-controlled and system-driven technologies. These developments are reshaping the boundaries between production and consumption. This study provides a foundational and structured framework for future research, offering practical guidance for sport media-related organisations navigating the complex media technology landscape and its rapidly evolving interplay between technology, content, and audiences.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145056701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1177/21674795251380213
Andrew C. Billings
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Pub Date : 2025-09-08DOI: 10.1177/21674795251376951
Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read, Bomin Paek
To address challenges with traditional ad breaks in sports broadcasting, split-screen ads - which show ads alongside live game content - have gained popularity. However, research on their impact, particularly across varying emotional engagement levels, is limited. This study used a biometric and eye-tracking lab experiment with 41 undergraduate students, employing a 2 × 2 incomplete block design during an international soccer match to investigate how emotional context (pleasant vs. unpleasant) and timing (at low-to-moderate vs. moderate-to-high emotionally intense moments) affect processing of split-screen ads during replays. This is one of the first studies on split-screen ads in sports broadcasts, showing that positive emotional moments enhance ad attitudes and reduce perceived intrusiveness. While self-reported attention data show that unpleasant moments trigger avoidance of replays but promote coping strategies for viewing ads, eye-tracking data contradict them, particularly in attentional resource allocation and visual focus, offering new insights for future research in sport marketing and advertising.
{"title":"Attentional and Evaluative Processing of Split-Screen Advertisements Embedded in Mediated Sports: An Eye-Tracking and Biometric Study","authors":"Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read, Bomin Paek","doi":"10.1177/21674795251376951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251376951","url":null,"abstract":"To address challenges with traditional ad breaks in sports broadcasting, split-screen ads - which show ads alongside live game content - have gained popularity. However, research on their impact, particularly across varying emotional engagement levels, is limited. This study used a biometric and eye-tracking lab experiment with 41 undergraduate students, employing a 2 × 2 incomplete block design during an international soccer match to investigate how emotional context (pleasant vs. unpleasant) and timing (at low-to-moderate vs. moderate-to-high emotionally intense moments) affect processing of split-screen ads during replays. This is one of the first studies on split-screen ads in sports broadcasts, showing that positive emotional moments enhance ad attitudes and reduce perceived intrusiveness. While self-reported attention data show that unpleasant moments trigger avoidance of replays but promote coping strategies for viewing ads, eye-tracking data contradict them, particularly in attentional resource allocation and visual focus, offering new insights for future research in sport marketing and advertising.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145056702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1177/21674795251376367
Lillian B. Feder
Resilience processes are communicative in nature and vital to the wellbeing and success of athletic personnel and organizations. However, the communicative components of resilience-building are largely ignored in sport scholarship and practice. This study seeks to bridge that gap by using the communication theory of resilience as a sensitizing concept to develop a thorough understanding of communicative resilience-building processes in athletics. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with members of a Division I college baseball team were analyzed using thematic co-occurrence analysis. Findings indicate that collegiate athletes and coaches experience resilience-building as a combination of mental toughness (i.e., persistence and discipline) and resourcefulness (i.e., social support, vulnerability, (self-)reflection, and positive self-talk). Findings also reveal three relationships between co-occurring themes. First, participants who focused on the process over the outcome of persistence developed greater (self-)awareness and found better solutions to the issues they faced. Second, providing social support to other network members motivated participants to regulate their own emotions and to remain disciplined amid adversity. Third, participants who communicated their vulnerability were empowered to seek out social support as a partial solution to disruptive events. These findings demonstrate the communicative and collective nature of resilience processes and inform suggestions for resilience-building in athletics.
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