scholarly journals Football and the media construction of Iranian national identity during the FIFA World Cup 2018 and AFC Asian Cup 2019

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Ali Ziaee ◽  
Arshin Adib-Moghaddam ◽  
Agnes Elling ◽  
Jacco van Sterkenburg ◽  
Ivo van Hilvoorde
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
The Media

Negotiating national identity through loss: Australian newspaper coverage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup

2014 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 540-554 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Nicholson ◽  
Emma Sherry ◽  
Angela Osborne
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup

Samba, sun and social issues: How the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Rio Olympics changed perceptions of Germans about Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 603-622
Author(s):  
Christiana Schallhorn
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Host Countries ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
The Media ◽  
Crime Risk ◽  
Over Time

The host countries for mega-sporting events aim to become more visible and to be perceived positively by the global audience because of the media coverage around the event. The media’s influence on people’s perceptions is expected to be particularly high if the audience has no direct experience and little prior knowledge of the hosting nation, and thus depends on the media for information. Using a panel survey ( N = 76) with three rounds of data collection, this longitudinal study explores how television viewers’ perceptions of Brazil changed from before the 2014 FIFA World Cup to after this event, and after the 2016 Olympic Games hosted by Brazil. The results indicate that perceptions about topics related to Brazil (e.g. crime risk, standard of living, economic situation) have generally become more negative over time. Further, although associations with Brazil were very positive before the FIFA World Cup, respondents tended to associate more negative ideas with Brazil over time. Surprisingly, the intention to travel to Brazil increased after Brazil hosted the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics. Broader international significance of the findings for both host countries of mega-sporting events and broadcasting countries are discussed.

Two Events, Two Brazils: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Diego Monteiro Gutierrez ◽  
Marco Antonio Bettine de Almeida ◽  
Gustavo Luis Gutierrez ◽  
Zack P. Pedersen ◽  
Antonio S. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
International Media ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
The Media

The current investigation uses critical discourse analysis to compare how international media entities portrayed Brazil in the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. The aim of the study was to understand how the specific characteristics of each event impact the media discourse and influence the portrayal of the host country. In this sense, the research concluded that the popular appeal of the event and the historical relation of the country with the sport have a profound impact on the type of coverage. Also, historical aspects and the diversity of athletes in the Summer Olympics contributed to a coverage more focused on the social issues of the host country. In the Brazilian case, this resulted in a more positive view of the country from the FIFA World Cup than the Summer Olympics.

scholarly journals “A Tale of Two Croatias”: How Club Football (Soccer) Teams Produce Radical Regional Divides in Croatia’s National Identity

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Dustin Y. Tsai
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Regional Identity ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Football Fans ◽  
Soccer Teams ◽  
North And South

Abstract Croatia’s monumental second-place finish at the 2018 FIFA World Cup represents the highest football achievement to date for the young nation. This victory, however, masks violent internal divisions between its domestic club football teams. This article examines the most salient rivalry between Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split, two teams that have evolved to represent the interests of Croatia’s north and south, respectively. Using interviews with radical football fans, I argue that the two teams act as reservoirs for regional identity-building while violence between their fans is a microcosm for political and economic tensions between Zagreb and Split. More importantly, this rivalry exposes the dividedness of the Croatian state, as it continues to grapple with the complexity of its radical regional identities in the wake of its independence from Yugoslavia. This article contributes to the existing body of literature on sports identity and regionalisms/nationalism as well as how sporting teams shape the geographies of belonging.

scholarly journals Media Construction of Sport Celebrities as National Heroes

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Luiza Dumitriu
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
Media Construction ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Logic ◽  
National Hero ◽  
Media Discourses

Within the broader media-sport nexus framework, sport is known for providing not only engaging performances for the entertainment market, but also important symbolic capital in terms of national identity and public diplomacy. The present paper looks at how these dimensions overlap, focusing on the centrality of the media logic within the dynamics of the social field of sport and its corollary celebrization imagery. The aim of the paper is, thus, to identify the contextual aspects and the legitimation strategies mobilized through media discourses in the overlap of the star status and the national hero image of a sport actor. When and how does media crown an athlete with the national hero aura? What does this national hero status involve in terms of identity and identification mechanisms? Focusing on a corpus of 310 online articles and 12 Facebook highlights published by two main Romanian sport newspapers during the 2014 Roland Garros Tournament, the study discusses the media construction of the raising sport star, Simona Halep (i.e. first Romanian tennis player to enter Top 3 WTA), as national hero. The analysis examines not only the symbolic power of the sport performances as national identity resources and celebrity input, but also the engaging deliberative spaces that emerge along with the national hero frame and the hybrid form of civic celebrity practices involved in legitimizing it.

The World Cup Is Ours!

2020 ◽  
pp. 198-220
Author(s):  
Euclides de Freitas Couto ◽  
Alan Castellano Valente
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
International System ◽  
National Policy ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
Brazilian Identity ◽  
The Right ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
Rhetorical Myth

As part of his broader efforts to improve Brazil’s position within the international system, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula) frequently invoked a rhetoric about national identity that relied heavily on football. These efforts helped Brazil win the right to host the 2014 World Cup, and Lula and his successor, Dilma Rousseff, continued to utilize rhetoric that emphasized a mythical Brazilian identity as well as the valuable legacies for the country from hosting this mega-event. Whereas this language may have helped achieve the diplomatic goals of the Workers’ Party presidents within the international system and FIFA, this rhetoric failed to persuade the domestic population, resulting in widespread protests and significant challenges inside the country. Nonetheless, by evoking rhetorical myth and elevating it within diplomatic endeavors, Presidents Lula and Rousseff used football and the hosting of the 2014 FIFA World Cup as a form of representation of identity and national policy, projecting a specific image of Brazil abroad to help achieve the goals of expanding and enhancing the country’s status.

Major Sporting Events and National Identification

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 605-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mutz ◽  
Markus Gerke
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Emotional Involvement ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
National Identification ◽  
The Media ◽  
Highly Involved

Research suggests that major sporting events can affect identification with the nation-state. Complementing previous research, it is argued in this article that identification with the national in-group should be enhanced especially among emotionally involved spectators. Emotional involvement, however, can be induced by the sport itself but also by an emotionalized framing of the events by the media. Two studies are presented which test these claims: In Study #1, it is shown that a single, victorious Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup match suffices to increase national identification among emotionally highly involved subjects, whereas no effects are revealed for individuals with lower emotional involvement. In Study #2, participants reported higher levels of national identification and associated Germany with more positive emotions and values after watching a highly emotional and patriotic broadcast of a kayak competition from the 2016 Summer Olympic Games compared to individuals who had watched the same competition with a factual and neutral commentary. It is concluded from both studies that emotional involvement is a key mechanism through which higher levels of national identification are produced in the realm of sport.

Negotiating “New” Narratives

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle Bailey ◽  
Robert Oliver ◽  
Christopher Gaffney ◽  
Korine Kolivras
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Global Event ◽  
Collective Narratives ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
The Media ◽  
Mega Event

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, is currently in the midst of an extraordinary period of mega-event hosting. While a large number of articles have been keen to illustrate the transformative potential and dilemmas of utilizing mega-events to advance an urban agenda, less understood is the role that media play in the construction of the “media geography” of mega-events. This research examines the collective narratives crafted by five Western international news outlets that emerged in the lead up to Brazil’s 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) World Cup. Incorporating interviews with international and new media journalists from a number of organizations, we illustrate the difficulty that foreign journalists faced in their attempts to represent the circumstances of “two Brazils”—one that was hosting a global event and another that is mired in structural injustice. We also highlight the role new media played in shifting the representative frame as Rio de Janeiro prepared for the tournament.

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