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.

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.

scholarly journals Sport in the new media. Media coverages of selected sport disciplines during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Organista ◽  
Martyna Halter-Bogołębska
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Women's Sport ◽  
Sports Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Olympic Games

Organista Natalia, Halter–Bogołębska Martyna, Sport in the new media. Media coverages of selected sport disciplines during the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Culture – Society – Education no 2(16) 2019, Poznań 2019, pp. 203–224, Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISSN 2300–0422. DOI 10.14746/kse.2019.16.13. This study concerns the online sports media coverage, a topic that has not been previously analyzed in Poland. In recent decades many studies (in Anglo–Saxon countries in particular) indicated the major underrepresentation of women’s sport and different framing of sportswomen andsportsmen. Those studies showed that the media plays important role in upholding gender stereotypes in sport and hindering empowerment of sportswomen. This study analyzes media coverage of three sports disciplines (gymnastics,swimming and weightlifting) during Rio Olympics on five websites. Findings revealed underrepresentation of women’s sport and setting the trend to write about women’s sport in disciplines consider as appropriated for women. The qualitative analysis did not indicate gender–specific descriptors in materials about sportspeople.

scholarly journals Content Analysis and Press Coverage: Vancouver's Cultural Olympiad

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Duncan Low
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Impact Study ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Cultural Communities ◽  
Arts Community ◽  
The Olympic Games

Increasingly, local cultural communities are called upon to support global mega-events such as the Olympic Games with the promise that they represent a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” for the host arts community. With regard to Vancouver's 2010 Cultural Olympiad, it is now clear that there have been some unintended consequences for Vancouver’s arts community. This research note, taken from a wider 2010 Cultural Olympiad impact study, explores one aspect of the mega-event’s promise—increased national and international press profile through press coverage.De plus en plus, on demande aux communautés culturelles locales d’appuyer les grands événements mondiaux comme les Jeux olympiques en leur assurant que ceux-ci représentent une occasion exceptionnelle pour la communauté artistique d’accueil. En ce qui a trait à l’Olympiade culturelle de Vancouver 2010, il est maintenant clair qu’il y a eu des conséquences inattendues pour la communauté artistique vancouveroise. Cette note de recherche, qui provient d’une étude d’impact plus large sur l’Olympiades culturelle de 2010, explore un aspect des conséquences promises pour ce grand événement : une présence médiatique accrue pour les artistes locaux, tant au niveau international que national.

scholarly journals WOMEN AND OLYMPIC GAMES: MEDIA COVERAGE

TEME ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1113
Author(s):  
Marija Vujović ◽  
Marta Mitrović ◽  
Neven Obradović
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Male Athletes ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sport Activities ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Olympic Games

Despite the fact that women have succeeded in their effort to have equal participation in the Summer Olympics, the public image of them is still predominantly stereotyped, which this study proves. The subject of analysis in this paper are narrative articles and photographs about male athletes and female athletes in sports sections, especially in the Olympic specials and the front pages of the best-selling daily newspaper in Serbia, Blic, during the Olympic Games, from July 27th to August 13th 2012. Hypotheses that the authors want to prove deal with the assumption that male athletes are often more represented in media than female athletes, and that the articles about women are often stereotyped. Some of the most frequent stereotypes are those which describe women as feminine, beautiful or sexual objects, as well as like someone's mother, wife or girlfriend, also, as infantile, emotional or irritable, or maybe those are just some irrelevant articles that do not talk about sport activities of female athletes. The Olympic Games in London are significant because, for the first time in history, women were equated with men in the sports in which both genders participate. 

Deuce or advantage? Examining gender bias in online coverage of professional tennis

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 517-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Yip
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Gender Bias ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Female Athletes ◽  
Gender Representations ◽  
Tennis Players ◽  
Gender Beliefs ◽  
Professional Tennis ◽  
Official Site ◽  
Gender Specific

Despite the increasing popularity of women’s sports, it has generally been found that female athletes receive less media coverage and are portrayed negatively with myriad gender-specific descriptors. Such biased representations warrant attention as they construct and reinforce traditional gender beliefs. This study compared the representations of female and male tennis players on the official site of the Australian Open 2015 and ESPN. A total of 357 articles were analysed using content analysis. The findings showed that gender representations on the two media outlets were quite similar as they both portrayed female players more negatively than male players by focusing on a few areas directly or indirectly: athletic weaknesses, negative skills, mental weaknesses and non-competitive roles (including appearance, attire, family and personal relationship). However, the use of certain descriptors might indicate the possibility of more gender-neutral representations of athletes in the future. It was concluded that while hegemonic masculinity was challenged at times, stereotypical beliefs about females were largely reinforced in the mediated gender representations on the two websites.

Examining service quality and social impact perceptions of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 160-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiago Miguel Ribeiro ◽  
Abel Correia ◽  
Rui Biscaia ◽  
Carlos Figueiredo
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Olympic Games ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
City Image ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Olympic Games

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of service quality on perceived positive and negative social impact of the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games. Design/methodology/approach A field study was conducted in Rio de Janeiro, and data were collected from residents who attended the Olympic Games through a self-administered questionnaire (n=519). The questionnaire included measures of perceived service quality, positive and negative social impact. A confirmatory factor analysis analysed the psychometric properties of the constructs, and a subsequent structural equation model examined the relationships between service quality and social impact perceptions. Findings The results show good psychometric properties of a multidimensional construct of service quality composed of the technical, functional, aesthetic, access, accommodation and complementary events dimensions. The service quality construct was significantly related to both positive social impact (city image and community pride enhancement, social experiences and public infrastructures) and negative social impact (social conflicts and costs) perceptions. Originality/value This study contributes to the literature by examining the role of service quality in sport mega-events and testing on different facets of social impact. The findings highlight that social atmosphere and new experiences in the Olympic Games are critical when planning these events.

Content Analysis in Climate Change Communication

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Metag
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Climate Change Communication ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Content Analyses

Content analysis is one of the most frequently used methods in climate change communication research. Studies implementing content analysis investigate how climate change is presented in mass media or other communication content. Quantitative content analysis develops a standardized codebook to code content systematically, which then allows for statistical analysis. Qualitative analysis relies on interpretative methods and a closer reading of the material, often using hermeneutic approaches and taking linguistic features of the text more into account than quantitative analysis. While quantitative analysis—particularly if conducted automatically—can comprise larger samples, qualitative analysis usually entails smaller samples, as it is more detailed. Different types of material—whether online content, campaign material, or climate change imagery—bring about different challenges when studied through content analysis that need to be considered when drawing samples of the material for content analysis. To evaluate the quality of a content analysis measures for reliability and validity are used. Key themes in content analyses of climate change communication are the media’s attention to climate change and the different points of view on global warming as an issue being present in the media coverage. Challenges for content analysis as a method for assessing climate change communication arise from the lack of comparability of the various studies that exist. Multimodal approaches are developed to better adhere to both textual and visual content simultaneously in content analyses of climate change communication.

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