Live-Sportberichterstattung mit Kommentarfunktion aus kontrastiver Sicht am Beispiel der Tennis-Live-Ticker

Dynamic changes in professional communication mediated through digital media leads to a transformation of the existing types of text. This article focuses on the tennis live ticker as a new hybrid form of sports reporting, which gives internet and app users the opportunity to participate in a given sports event ‘just in time’ and to comment it online asynchronously. The non-linearity, multimodality, hypertextuality and the level of expertise represented by tennis-live-tickers require the recipient to be particularly interactive. In comparison to conventional sports reports and commentaries in the press or on television, the semiotic resources of the live ticker offer a unique way of conveying specialist content in digital media. The differences in the journalistic form of presentation, text structure and adaptation to the reception requirements of the medium are explored in the selected texts of the German and Polish tennis live tickers from online press and live score websites.

Del espectador pasivo al experiencial: la realidad virtual en la información deportiva

Virtual Reality (VR) and 360º video have been introduced in a novel way in recent years in the journalistic field thanks to their narrative potentialities. Their characteristics have not gone unnoticed within the field of sports reporting, which already has a high audience in any traditional or cybernetic media, giving it a greater attraction now. One of the changes introduced by these productions is their form of consumption. Within this context, this research arises, focused on immersive journalism. Under a qualitative and quantitative perspective, 225 sports productions randomly selected from the main technical platforms that provide VR and video content in 360º are analyzed. The perspective of the analysis focuses on the changes produced in the sports viewer. The main findings show that one of the innovations of this type of immersive storytelling directly affects the role of the spectator, who no longer adopts a passive attitude but becomes a protagonist of the sport. New experiences of sports consumption are beginning to be generated where the treatment of information, to a certain extent, is relegated to second place, in relation to traditional journalistic criteria. We are in front of a new sports spectator.

Disrupting a Canadian Prairie Fantasy and Constructing Racial Otherness: An Analysis of News Media Coverage of Trevis Smith’s Criminal HIV Non-Disclosure Case

This paper studies how HIV criminalization is portrayed in the mainstream Canadian press by examining news representations of Trevis Smith. Smith’s case is the most reported case of criminal HIV non-disclosure in Canadian history. Our analysis is based on a corpus of 271 articles written about Smith between 2005 and 2012. Our analysis shows that coverage of Smith’s case is distinct from reportage of other criminal HIV non-disclosure cases because he was a well-known Black athlete playing for the Saskatchewan Roughriders at the time of his criminal charge. We argue that news articles represent Smith as a particular kind of threatening racialized “other” through forms of writing that link crime reporting with sports reporting. Our analysis of headlines and quotation patterns emphasizes how news articles construct Smith as a blameworthy outsider and produce Canada as an imagined white settler nation.