This study adds to our understanding of the role that information and communication
technologies play in facilitating social connections between sports fans and the …

Substantial research indicates that women's sports and female athletes gain only a small
fraction of sports media coverage worldwide. Research that has examined why this is the …

Research question: The creation of sport media content is guided by the need to cover live,
seasonal events, which typically results in the greater coverage of men's sport than …

Studies that have engaged parasport broadcasting, particularly through a narrative lens,
have almost exclusively relied on textual and/or content analysis of the Paralympic Games …

As reflected by the London 2012 Summer Olympic Games, global women's participation in
sports seems to currently be at its highest levels ever. However, equality between men and …

The article presents a study aimed at examining official Facebook pages of athletes who
receive significant mainstream media attention and of those who do not to determine how …

In this research, interviews were conducted with 10 US newspaper sport journalists to gauge
their experiences and attitudes toward issues and coverage of open and closeted gay men …

Sport has increasingly been posited as a vehicle for confronting racism and sexism in
traditional patriarchal cultures. This chapter investigates the processes, practices and …

Sport is a global business. Now more than ever, sport communication professionals need to
understand sport's global reach in order to develop their full potential. This is the first …

This longitudinal content analysis of ESPN's SportsCenter from 1999 to 2009 found that
women's sports continue to be almost wholly absent from the influential program. Women …