2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 06: Sport and Media 1

7 Jun 2022, 15:00

Description

Chair: Mike Sam
Room: D4A19, Building D Level 4

16. Enacting hyperandrogenism – A case of Norwegian media coverage

Anna Adlwarth

07/06/2022, 15:00

This paper investigates the co-construction of hyperandrogenism as a sports-medical pathology, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and World Athletics (WA) on the one hand, and media reporting on the other. In the last decade, the term hyperandrogenism became the buzzword regarding eligibility criteria for women elite athletics. According to so-called ‘hyperandrogenism regulations’,...

17. The Damned United: Transnational Media and the Broadcast of English Premier League in Taiwan

Tzu-hsuan Chen

07/06/2022, 15:20

This paper investigates the co-construction of hyperandrogenism as a sports-medical pathology, by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and World Athletics (WA) on the one hand, and media reporting on the other. In the last decade, the term hyperandrogenism became the buzzword regarding eligibility criteria for women elite athletics. According to so-called ‘hyperandrogenism regulations’,...

18. The price of glory: Hungarian media discourses on violence in coaching

Tamas Doczi

07/06/2022, 15:40

In late October, 2021, Hungarian sport was shaken by an interview with a multiple Olympic medallist and world champion swimmer, one of the most well-known elite athletes in the country, in which he claimed to have been verbally and physically abused by his coach for more than 10 years. Although such issues had come up a number of times, none had as big of an impact as this one. The objective...

19. Discovering Relations Between Esports, Sports, and Covid-19 Pandemic – In-depth Interviews with Top-Tier Media Journalists

Michal Jasny, Piotr Siuda

07/06/2022, 16:00

Objectives
This paper is the result of a larger project on how media sports changed during the Covid-19 pandemic. We attempt to show how esports is assessed by sports and esports journalists. We examine how they define esports, yet our goal is not to answer whether competitive playing of video games is "real" sport. Our analysis is focused on relations between sports and esports, and based...