scholarly journals Racial folklore, black masculinities and the reproduction of dominant racial ideologies: The case of Israel Folau

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (7) ◽  
pp. 850-867 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith D Parry ◽  
Jamie Cleland ◽  
Emma Kavanagh
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Communications Media ◽  
Message Boards ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Racial Ideologies ◽  
Online Message Boards ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time

This article examines the continued presence of racial folklore and the reproduction of dominant racial ideologies as presented by the media and fan interactions. The case of Israel (Izzy) Folau’s time at the Greater Western Sydney Giants Australian football club is presented, utilising an analysis of the club’s email communications, media coverage and discussions by sports fans on online message boards. The analysis identifies the significance of the player’s racialised body in constructions of masculinity and the extent to which it plays a role in the acceptance (or not) of an athlete. The article concludes that the narratives that are constructed around athletes are fluid and often change over time or in response to sporting performances or other external influences such as a change of team.

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.

Citizen journalists, sports fans or advocates? The motivations of female independent sports media producers in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merryn Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Women's Sport ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Digital Sports

Australia’s major sporting codes proudly promote the fact that almost 40 per cent of their fans are women, however, this gender balance is not reflected in the composition of the media workforce covering sport. Further, there is very little mainstream media coverage of women’s sport and female athletes in Australia. However, the advent of digital media and lower barriers of access into the media market have led to a proliferation of women creating independent sports media; that is, media produced outside newsrooms by individuals who are not professional journalists. These products, which mostly comprise websites and podcasts, focus on sport generally and women’s sport and female athletes more specifically. These products have regularly secured accreditation to cover events and interview talent, an indication they have been accepted into the sports media landscape, and have started to develop significant audiences. This study conducted in-depth qualitative interviews to explore who these women are, why they create digital sports media products and whether they believe they are practising journalism.

Down, Set, Frame: Second-Level Agenda Building and the NFL Network Carriage Dispute

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trent Seltzer ◽  
Stephen W. Dittmore
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Agenda Building ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time

This study used second-level agenda-setting and agenda-building theory as a framework for investigating media coverage of the NFL Network carriage dispute and how NFL and cable operators attempted to frame this issue via their respective public relations efforts. National, regional, and trade media stories over a 2-year period were content analyzed along with corporate press releases. Results indicated that the NFL and cable operators in particular were framed negatively in media coverage. However, the percentage of positive media stories was much higher for the NFL than for the cable operators. The findings suggest that initially the NFL was more effective in having its messages resonate with the media than were the cable operators. As the issue evolved over time and fans were faced with the prospect of missing key games, the media framing of the debate shifted the blame from the cable companies to both cable operators and the NFL.

scholarly journals Trust in Science, Perceived Media Exaggeration About COVID-19, and Social Distancing Behavior

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ariadne Neureiter ◽  
Marlis Stubenvoll ◽  
Ruta Kaskeleviciute ◽  
Jörg Matthes
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Panel Study ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Psychological Reactance ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Individual Health ◽  
Preventative Measures ◽  
The Media ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Over Time

For many individuals, the media function as a primary source of information about preventative measures to combat COVID-19. However, a considerable number of citizens believe that the media coverage about pandemics is exaggerated. Although the perception of media exaggeration may be highly consequential for individual health behaviors, we lack research on the drivers and consequences of this perception. In a two-wave panel study, we examined associations between trust in science, perceptions of media exaggeration about COVID-19, and social distancing behavior during the lockdown in Austria (NT2 = 416). Results showed that trust in science at T1 led to less perceptions of media exaggeration about COVID-19 at T2. Furthermore, consistent with the theory of psychological reactance, perceptions of media exaggeration about COVID-19 at T1 caused less social distancing behavior at T2. Thus, findings suggest that trust in science may positively affect individuals' social distancing behavior by decreasing perceived media exaggeration about COVID-19 over time. Implications for research on media effects in times of COVID-19 and conclusions for journalists are discussed.

The 2015 refugee crisis, uncertainty and the media: Representations of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants in Austrian and French media

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (s1) ◽  
pp. 841-863
Author(s):  
Anita Gottlob ◽  
Hajo Boomgaarden
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Empirical Support ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
Considerable Influence ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time

AbstractMedia coverage of migration and migrants can exert considerable influence on the public’s understanding of and attitudes towards migration. During the peak of what has been called ‘the refugee crisis’ in 2015, heated discussions about immigration and its possible impact filled the media landscape. This study focuses specifically on the news framing of insecurities regarding immigration, exploring what we have termed ‘uncertainty frames’ in the coverage of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants. This study will thus lend empirical support to a novel attempt to combine the concepts of uncertainty, risk, and framing. These frames were analyzed within French and Austrian media from 2015 to 2016. Drawing on a content analysis of tabloid and broadsheet articles, different types of uncertainty frames (economy, values, society, etc.) as well as different types of solution frames (the kind of solutions provided for the issue of immigration) were examined. Results suggest that even though all frames decrease in salience over time, important variations in different types of uncertainty frames do appear. It is argued that frames related to abstract issues seem to stay more salient throughout time in both countries.

Football, Media, and Homophobia: Public Framing of the First Pride Game in the Australian Football League

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 545-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merryn Sherwood ◽  
Alex Donaldson ◽  
Suzanne Dyson ◽  
David Lowden ◽  
Timothy Marjoribanks ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Media Framing ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
Australian Football League ◽  
Football Clubs ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Australian Football ◽  
The Media

Two Australian football clubs—St Kilda and the Sydney Swans—played the first Pride Game in Australian professional sport in 2016 to support and include the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ) community at and through a major sporting event. This study examines the framing of this game in the print and online media and in public responses via comments on media coverage and comments on Facebook posts. The framing of both the media coverage and the public response was predominantly supportive, with the theme of the “inclusion,” of gay Australian Football League players and the broader LGBTIQ community, prominent. However, there was a significant difference in the frames used in media coverage compared to the public response to this coverage. There was a relatively high proportion of unsupportive comments (e.g., a “stick to football” theme), including pernicious homophobia, present, particularly in the public response, compared to other recent related research. Overall, the findings suggest that, while there was strong support for the Pride Game, homophobia in sport remains, and the media, particularly social media, can be a platform for its expression. This study also highlights the value in analysing multiple platforms in media framing research.

scholarly journals Wolf Media Coverage in the Region of Castilla y León (Spain): Variations over Time and in Two Contrasting Socio-Ecological Settings

Animals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 736
Author(s):  
Miguel Delibes-Mateos
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Large Carnivores ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
The North ◽  
New Localities ◽  
Conservation Values ◽  
The Media ◽  
People’S Attitudes ◽  
Over Time

People’s attitudes towards large carnivores, and thus public support for their conservation, can be influenced by how these species are framed in the media. Therefore, assessing media coverage of large carnivores is of particular interest for their coexistence with humans. I used content analysis to assess how the grey wolf was portrayed in a newspaper in northern Spain, how wolf media coverage varied over time (2006–2017), and in two different socio-ecological settings. Most documents addressed the conflictive relationship between the wolf and livestock (60%; n = 902). Moreover, coverage of this relationship increased over the study period in the south of the study area, where the wolf is strictly protected, has recolonised new localities, and damage to livestock has increased. Overall, other topics, such as wolf conservation or hunting, appeared much less frequently in the media, but predominated in the north of the study area, where the wolf is more abundant and huntable. Conflictive issues like wolf-livestock interactions are generally attractive for audiences, but drawing attention to this issue may compromise the management of conflicts associated with wolves. Ideally, the media should promote potential wolf conservation values if coexistence between wolves and humans is sought.

From Shanfan to Gymnastike: How Online Fan Texts Are Affecting Access to Gymnastics Media Coverage

2011 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigid McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Sports Fans ◽  
Message Boards ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
Online Culture ◽  
Media Texts

This discussion illustrates how fans of women’s artistic gymnastics have used rapidly innovating platforms for user-generated content to create and access sporting information. In doing so, these fans are contributing to the formation of rich collective intelligences around the sport and how these new-media texts are beginning to affect mainstream sports media coverage. Using gymnastics fandom as an example, this discussion demonstrates how online culture has become a prime outlet for those with niche sporting interests. These new-media forms such as blogs, video platforms, and message boards augment and act as supplements to the mainstream sports media coverage, as well as expanding the kinds of information sports fans now can access in this enriched information environment.

Negative spaces: Terrorist attempts to erase cultural history and the critical media coverage

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-281
Author(s):  
Adam Klein
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Terrorist Groups ◽  
Critical Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Popular Magazines ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Over Time

The recent annihilation of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud by ISIS represents a disturbing trend in how some terrorist groups are trying to erase historical sites for the cultures they communicate. This study explores how one of these devastated spaces is still expressed in the media years after its destruction by examining another act of iconoclasm that occurred in 2001 when the Taliban annihilated the 1,500-year-old Buddhas of Bamiyan statues. The research explores the conception of negative spaces in communication and the means by which they are created through warfare and terrorism. A frame and critical analysis of popular magazines then assesses how the Bamiyan Buddhas’ identity has been transformed over time, and some of the journalistic practices that have enabled these renderings. The results reveal how the Buddhas have gradually become journalism’s touchstone for modern cultural terrorism, while in 70 percent of the coverage the site’s actual history has been replaced by the narrative of its destruction.

scholarly journals 'Fodbold, det er da ikke noget for piger' - om Boldklubben Femina og dens kamp for at få fodbold accepteret som en sport for kvinder

2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Brus
Keyword(s):  
National Football League ◽  
Process Of Change ◽  
Football Club ◽  
Sporting Activity ◽  
Sports Club ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Media ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Women's Football

Artikel om kvindefodbold, kampen om ligestilling inden for denne sport og dannelsen af DKFU.»Football! Why, that’s not for girls« – On the ball sports club, Femina, and its struggle to get football accepted as a sport for womenIn 1971 the female Danish football club BK Femina became the unofficial world champions in women’s football. Their success of the field was not an accident and has to be seen against the background of more than 10 years of fighting to get women’s football accepted as a sport for women. Taking as its starting point BK Femina’s sporting success, this article reveals which factors played a part in enabling women’s football to establish itself in Denmark as a sporting activity for women during the period 1959 to 1972, at which point women’s football was permitted entry into the national football league, the Danish Ballgames Union (DBU). It is suggested in the article, then, that acceptance of football as a sport for women must be seen in relation to the perception of what is understood as accepted feminine and masculine sporting practice, and in what way this understanding of gender in football altered over time in the period under analysis. Central to this process of change is the collaboration of mutual interests built up by women’s football, the media and sponsors.

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