scholarly journals Newspapers as Gendered Spaces: Photographic Representation of Kenyan Female Athletes in the Kenyan Press during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (16) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Nyanoti
Keyword(s):  
Women Athletes ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Gendered Spaces ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Olympic Games

Kenya is known globally as the home of world champions in athletics, including the Olympics. However, although the Olympic games dominate public discourse in Kenya when they are being held every four years, there is hardly any academic interest in the many press photographs that are published in this season. The main objective of this study is to analyze how female athletes were photographically represented compared with their male counterparts in the Rio 2016 Olympics in the Kenyan newspapers. I employed quantitative content analysis and semiotic analysis to study Kenya’s two leading daily newspapers, the Daily Nation and the Standard between August 5 and 21, 2016, the time the Olympic games took place. My findings indicate that the two newspapers allocated more photographic space to men compared with women athletes. The findings also show that photographs in this study depicted women as weaker than men, as emotional unlike their logical male counterparts, and generally as inferior to men.

scholarly journals Mortality of Japanese Olympic athletes in 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. e000896
Author(s):  
Taro Takeuchi ◽  
Yuri Kitamura ◽  
Soya Ishizuka ◽  
Sachiko Yamada ◽  
Hiroshi Aono ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Women Athletes ◽  
Japanese Population ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Proportional Hazards Model ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Handgrip Strength ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazards ◽  
Cox Proportional Hazards Model ◽  
Smoking History ◽  
Male Athletes

ObjectivesTo compare the mortality of Japanese athletes in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games with that of the Japanese population, and to elucidate factors associated with their mortality.MethodsWe obtained from the Japan Sport Association study subjects’ biographical information, information on lifestyles and medical data. Missing data were obtained from online databases. Standardised mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated to compare athletes’ mortality with the Japanese population. Cox proportional hazards model was applied to estimate the HR for each category of body mass index (BMI), smoking history and handgrip strength. This analysis was limited to male athletes due to the small number of female athletes.ResultsAmong 342 (283 men, 59 women) athletes, deaths were confirmed for 70 (64 men, 6 women) athletes between September 1964 and December 2017. Total person years was 15 974.8, and the SMR was 0.64 (95% CI 0.50 to 0.81). Multivariate analysis performed on 181 male athletes. Mortality was significantly higher for BMI≥25 kg/m2 than for 21–23 kg/m2 (HR: 3.03, 95% CI 1.01 to 9.07). We found no statistically significant associations between smoking history and mortality; the HR (95% CI) for occasional and daily smokers were 0.82 (0.26 to 2.57) and 1.30 (0.55 to 3.03) compared with never smokers. We also found no statistically significant associations between handgrip strength and mortality (P for trend: 0.51).ConclusionJapanese athletes in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games lived longer than the Japanese population. BMI≥25 kg/m2 was associated with higher mortality, but smoking history and handgrip strength were not associated with mortality.

Sports press coverage of Polish female athletes during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
pp. 39-48
Author(s):  
Natalia Organista ◽  
Zuzanna Mazur
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Women's Sport ◽  
The Olympic Games

During the last Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the Polish female representatives won sig-nificantly more medals compared to men. This fact made the authors examine whether female athletes received proportionate media coverage compared to men. In the course ofresearch, articles from the two largest Polish dailies were analysed (“Gazeta Wyborcza” and “Fakt Gazeta Codzienna”). With the use of content analysis, 197 articles were analysed in order to check whether any quantitative and qualitative differences can be observed in describing women's and men's sport. The results show underrepresentation of press coverage regarding women's sport. The results of qualitative analysis also point to a number of differences when portraying women's and men's sport.

scholarly journals Women athletes in the Olympic Games

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Amaral Nunes
Keyword(s):  
Women Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
The Olympic Games

scholarly journals GENDER PERSPECTIVE IN REPORTS ON WOMEN ATHLETES IN RIO 2016 OLYMPIC GAMES

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucimara Fabiana Fornari ◽  
Rafaela Gessner Lourenço ◽  
Rosa Maria Godoy Serpa da Fonseca ◽  
Danyelle Leonette Araújo dos Santos ◽  
Emiko Yoshikawa Egry
Keyword(s):  
Women Athletes ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Special Report ◽  
Thematic Content Analysis ◽  
Socially Constructed

ABSTRACT Objective: to identify reiteration trends or overcoming of gender inequalities in reports on female athletes published in Brazilian newspapers. Method: a documentary research based on reports published in the special report on Rio 2016 Olympic Games in two Brazilian newspapers of national circulation. 51 articles and 87 images were selected and submitted to thematic content analysis and processed in webQDA software. Results: four categories emerged from the empirical data: women’s representativeness in the Olympic Games; women on the champions platform; recognition of women from overcoming male performance; and violence against women gaining ground in sports’ agenda. Media coverage replicated socially constructed sexist patterns by portraying athletes from stereotyped female characteristics and revealed gender inequalities in describing situations of violence against athletes perpetrated by members of technical teams and supporters. Conclusion: despite the visibility given to the protagonism of athletes, there was the production and reproduction of gender stereotypes. Therefore, it is necessary to deconstruct and confront inequalities between men and women.

scholarly journals ANALYSIS OF REPORTING ON MALE AND FEMALE ATHLETES IN SERBIAN MEDIA DURING THE OLYMPIC GAMES IN LONDON 2012

2020 ◽  
pp. 491
Author(s):  
Nenad Stojiljković ◽  
Nebojša Randjelović ◽  
Danijela Živković ◽  
Danica Piršl ◽  
Irena Stanišić
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Sporting Events ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
London 2012 ◽  
Local Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Women In Sports ◽  
The Olympic Games

The main goal of this paper was to find out more about how and to what extent the local media reported on sporting events at the 2012 London Olympics and to determine the difference in reporting on male and female athletes in the local media. The subject of the research are newspaper articles about sports in electronic news editions, which influence the formation of the media image about athletes, and which can contribute to the affirmation or marginalization of women in sports. In this research for collecting data and information about athletes at the Olympic Games, three media sources were used: RTS, KURIR and POLITIKA. The data have been collected since the opening of the Olympic Games until their official closing ceremony and every day was thoroughly processed in all three media sources. The information included information on the gender of the author of the text, the number of photos in the text, the number of words in the text, the gender of the actors who are on the photos, the level of exposure of the actor's bodies in the photos, the emotions in the photos, the angle of the camera, individual and group display of athletes, active or passive on-site and out-of-court conditions. Generally speaking, the findings of this research in the media space of Serbia show that there is still an imbalance in the way men and women athletes are represented, and that in this respect, there is a need for certain changes in this issue.

scholarly journals ANÁLISE DA VISIBILIDADE E PARTICIPAÇÃO FEMININA NA COBERTURA DA OLIMPÍADA RIO 2016 REALIZADA PELOS PORTAIS ESPNW E LANCE!

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 557
Author(s):  
Valquiria Michela John ◽  
Elyson Gums
Keyword(s):  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Sports Journalism ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Research Objects ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Women In Sports ◽  
The Olympic Games

O jornalismo esportivo é uma área em que, historicamente, ainda impera uma cobertura predominantemente masculina. A Olimpíada, realizada no Brasil em agosto de 2016, faz com que esta visibilidade aumente, embora o destaque ainda seja inferior a atletas e modalidades masculinas. Assim, os Jogos surgem como um momento propício para analisar o espaço destinado à mulher no esporte e os papeis a elas atribuídos. Para isso, foi utilizada a Análise de Conteúdo, tendo como objetos os portais Lance!, portal referência em Jornalismo Esportivo no Brasil; e o ESPNW, criado em 2016 com foco na questão feminina. Foram coletadas todas as publicações referentes à Olimpíada Rio 2016 feitas em ambos os portais durante o período de 02 a 22 de agosto. Constata-se que mesmo durante a cobertura de um evento com grande participação de atletas mulheres, ainda há mais destaque para fontes masculinas – essas praticamente unânimes como especialistas/experts.   PALAVRAS-CHAVES: Gênero; Olimpíada; Jornalismo esportivo.     ABSTRACT In Sports journalism, historically, the coverage is predominantly masculine. The Olympic Games, held by Brazil, in August 2016, made this visibility grow, but masculine competitions and athletes keep being the highlight. Therefore, the Games are a propitious moment to analyze the space for women in sports and their assigned roles. To achieve this, it was used the method of Content Analysis having as research objects two sports web portals: Lance!, reference in Sports Journalism in Brazil; and espnW, created at 2016 focused in female issues. All publications concerning the Olympic Games in the period of August 02-22 – a day before the start of the first sport, women’s soccer, and one day after Games closure – were collected; It was verified that even during a competition with great participation of female athletes, male sources of information are featured – those practically unanimous as experts.   KEYWORDS: Gender; Olympic Games; Sports journalism.     RESUMEN El periodismo deportivo es un área donde, históricamente, todavía gobierna una cobertura predominantemente masculina. Los Juegos Olímpicos, celebrada en Brasil en agosto el año 2016, aumenta la visibilidad, aunque lo destacado es todavía inferior a los atletas masculinos y sus modalidades. Por lo tanto, los juegos aparecen como un buen momento para analizar el espacio para las mujeres en el deporte y las funciones que se les asignan. Para esto, se utilizó el análisis de contenido, teniendo como objeto los portales Lance!, referencia de portal en Periodismo Deportivo en Brasil y espnW, creado en 2016 con un enfoque en temas de la mujer. Hemos recogido todas las publicaciones relacionadas con los Juegos Olímpicos de Río 2016 realizadas en ambos portales durante el período 02 al 22 de de agosto. Encontramos que incluso durante la transmisión de un programa con gran participación de las mujeres deportistas, hay más énfasis en las fuentes de sexo masculino - éstos casi unánime como especialista/experto.   PALABRAS-CLAVE: Género; Juegos Olímpicos; periodismo deportivo.

scholarly journals Masculine brave in the feminine winter sports

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-85
Author(s):  
Piroska Béki
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Winter Sports ◽  
Ski Jumping ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
The Olympic Games

The sport has significant role in the changes of the genders relation and helped to transform the conception of the sexes during the last fifty years. The women started to do conventionally male sports; the newest event was the ski jumping for female athletes at the Olympic Games of Soci. The gender stereotypes in the women sports can be stronger or weaker depending on the success or on the water haul. This phenomenon helps us to understand the new conceptions of the sexes in the context of the relationships of genders.

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