‘French football needs more women like Adriana’? Examining the media coverage of France’s women’s national football team for the 2011 World Cup and the 2012 Olympic Games

2016 ◽  
Vol 51 (7) ◽  
pp. 833-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Ravel ◽  
Marc Gareau
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Football Team ◽  
The Media

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.

The Role of Media in Enhancing People’s Perception of Hosting a Mega Sport Event: The Case of Pyeongchang’s Winter Olympics Bids

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari Kim ◽  
Moonhoon Choi ◽  
Kyriaki Kaplanidou
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Winter Olympics ◽  
Winter Olympic Games ◽  
The Media ◽  
Newspaper Articles ◽  
The Olympic Games

Residents’ support for hosting the Olympic Games is crucial for a bid to succeed in the Olympic host-city selection process. Because of the vital role of the media in framing public perceptions of Olympic bids, the purpose of this study was to examine media coverage of hosting the Olympic Games during the Olympic host-city bid process. A quantitative content analysis was conducted on newspaper articles about Pyeongchang, Korea. Pyeongchang was a candidate city for 3 consecutive bids for the Winter Olympic Games, and it finally won its latest bid to host the 2018 Games. Six hundred Korean newspaper articles were collected for analysis. The results indicated that positive, nationwide discussions of hosting the Olympic Games were presented during the successful bid. Infrastructure legacy was mentioned frequently and dominantly for both successful and unsuccessful bid periods, whereas the presence of sport-development and sociocultural-legacy themes increased in the latest, successful, bid. In addition, extensive coverage related to celebrity endorsement was found during the successful bid.

What League? The Representation of Female Athletes in Australian Television Sports Coverage

2011 ◽  
Vol 140 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Caple ◽  
Kate Greenwood ◽  
Catharine Lumby
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Women's Sport ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Football Team ◽  
Sports Coverage ◽  
Television Coverage

This article explores why women's sport in Australia still struggles to attract sponsorship and mainstream media coverage despite evidence of high levels of participation and on-field successes. Data are drawn from the largest study of Australian print and television coverage of female athletes undertaken to date in Australia, as well as from a case study examining television coverage of the success of the Matildas, the Australian women's national football team, in winning the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Women's Asian Cup in 2010. This win was not only the highest ever accolade for any Australian national football team (male or female), but also guaranteed the Matildas a place in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup in Germany [where they reached the quarter-finals]. Given the close association between success on the field, sponsorship and television exposure, this article focuses specifically on television reporting. We present evidence of the starkly disproportionate amounts of coverage across this section of the news media, and explore the circular link between media coverage, sponsorship and the profile of women's sport.

scholarly journals Towards Spectacular Nationality: Media Production of Korean Nationality through the 2002 World  Cup

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sun-ha Hong
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Korean Identity ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Media

<p>This paper explores the role of the media in the production of Korean nationality during the 2002 World Cup. It suggests that the media coverage helped organise a spectacle of consumption, which became the primary means by which Korean nationality was articulated and understood. This study brings together research in media and Korean studies and aims to contribute to a timely understanding of nationality that recognises both its intimate connection with media and consumer culture and its normative and taxonomic function. The study elaborates a hybrid theoretical framework of a ‘system of signs’, which draws from Michel Foucault’s analysis of power and normalisation and the ideas of spectacle and simulacrum by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. The study examines two key cases of nationality production. Firstly, the ‘Red Devils’ and millions of street supporters that celebrated Korean victories were appropriated by the media to produce internally oriented affirmations of Korean identity and values that doubled as an entertainment spectacle. Secondly, the cult of admiration around the foreign manager Hiddink demonstrated how discourses of globalisation contribute to a social imaginary of global nationalities that compelled Koreans to judge their own nationality against the standards of the sŏnjin’guk (‘advanced nations’).</p>

scholarly journals Towards Spectacular Nationality: Media Production of Korean Nationality through the 2002 World  Cup

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Sun-ha Hong
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Social Imaginary ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Jean Baudrillard ◽  
Korean Identity ◽  
Primary Means ◽  
The Media

<p>This paper explores the role of the media in the production of Korean nationality during the 2002 World Cup. It suggests that the media coverage helped organise a spectacle of consumption, which became the primary means by which Korean nationality was articulated and understood. This study brings together research in media and Korean studies and aims to contribute to a timely understanding of nationality that recognises both its intimate connection with media and consumer culture and its normative and taxonomic function. The study elaborates a hybrid theoretical framework of a ‘system of signs’, which draws from Michel Foucault’s analysis of power and normalisation and the ideas of spectacle and simulacrum by Guy Debord and Jean Baudrillard. The study examines two key cases of nationality production. Firstly, the ‘Red Devils’ and millions of street supporters that celebrated Korean victories were appropriated by the media to produce internally oriented affirmations of Korean identity and values that doubled as an entertainment spectacle. Secondly, the cult of admiration around the foreign manager Hiddink demonstrated how discourses of globalisation contribute to a social imaginary of global nationalities that compelled Koreans to judge their own nationality against the standards of the sŏnjin’guk (‘advanced nations’).</p>

scholarly journals Making fútbol straight again: Homophobia, misogyny and the politics of Alexis Sánchez’s sexuality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brenda Elsey
Keyword(s):  
Crucial Role ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Gender Segregation ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Women Journalists ◽  
Romantic Involvement ◽  
The Media ◽  
Love Life ◽  
The Relationship

This essay examines the media frenzy around the ‘love-life’ of Chilean football star Alexís Sánchez, particularly the 2017 announcement of his romantic involvement with actress Mayte Rodríguez. It discusses the media coverage as a poignant example of misogyny and homophobia in Chilean football culture, as well as one of the forces that perpetuates that culture. During the years of the 2018 World Cup qualifying process, Chile accrued the most severe fines of any country for homophobic behaviour at football matches. This fact has attracted some, but not much, attention. There are few spaces of such extreme gender segregation as football. Once football’s capacity to develop proper masculinity and heterosexuality was widely accepted, football directors, journalists and fans pushed women outside of the sport. The relationship between homophobia and sexism has a long history in the construction of football fandom, play and organization. Media played a crucial role in reinforcing the heteronormative and misogynist aspects of the sport. This essay discusses how these long-standing prejudices have hurt women journalists, fans and athletes. Please note that this essay was previously published in Spanish in De Cabeza .

How French is ‘French’ Sport?

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-268
Author(s):  
Philip Dine
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
The State ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
World Cup ◽  
The World ◽  
National Model ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multiple Challenges

This article explores how sports in France have responded to the challenges of globalization, and also to the opportunities of an increasingly multicultural society. Two case studies are offered in which a distinctive national model may be seen to have been exposed to powerful transnational forces between 1985 and 2015, a period which also corresponds to sport's digital age. The sports primarily targeted are football and athletics, the most visibly international of modern games, as highlighted by their quadrennial showcases: the World Cup and the Olympic Games. The resulting case studies are intended to suggest some of the ways in which the state, the media and the relevant federations have responded to the multiple challenges of the corporate-financed and electronically mediated ‘global sporting system’. Featured athletes include Zinedine Zidane, Lilian Thuram, Marie-José Pérec and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad.

Global Media Events and the Positioning of Presence

2000 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Olympic Games ◽  
Global Media ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Media Events ◽  
The Media ◽  
Gain And Loss ◽  
Being There ◽  
Media Event ◽  
Effective Analysis ◽  
The Olympic Games

This article engages with the ‘canonical’ work of Daniel Dayan and Elihu Katz (1992) in reexamining aspects of the phenomenology of the media event, especially those of a global sporting nature. It considers a range of questions of ‘gain’ and ‘loss' in ‘being there’, and of television-inspired changes to the experience of in-person attendance. Innovations in the viewing possibilities at global media events are considered in relation to forms of sociality during competitions such as the Olympic Games and the soccer World Cup. The discussion also notes the existence of significant variations in the ‘script forms' of apparently similar media event types. Finally, it identifies interacting areas of focus important for an effective analysis of the dialectics of remote and proximate experience of global media events like the recent Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

Rethinking the Status of Female Olympians in the Australian Press

2004 ◽  
Vol 110 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Payne
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Women's Sport ◽  
Common Assumption ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Media

There is a common assumption among sport and media analysts that female athletes worldwide simply do not enjoy adequate media coverage. This article aims to challenge this notion by highlighting an important aspect of women's sport reporting often overlooked in other analyses of sportswomen in the media — Olympic press coverage. In contrast to everyday press representations of women's sport, the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 provided several positive examples of reports written by Australian journalists about female athletes. Incorporating quantitative and qualitative approaches, this paper assesses both the allocation and content of articles printed about female Olympians during the Sydney Olympics by four major Australian newspapers.

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