2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 30: Sport and Media 2

8 Jun 2022, 13:30

Description

Chair: Jeroen Scheerder
Room: D4A19, Building D Level 4

100. "Appearance of a superstar is just a matter of time" – Racialized media presentation of footballers with a migration background

Marko Kananen

08/06/2022, 13:30

Over the past two decades, players with a migration background have rapidly risen to the top of the Finnish football. Although in the Finnish society debate around migration has commonly focused on problems and challenges, within the context of the football the tone has been very different. Migrant players have been regularly depicted as the great hope of Finnish Football. Building on concepts...

101. Online Hate and Sport: An overview of the key literature

Colm Kearns, Gary Sinclair, Jack Black, Mark Doidge, Thomas Fletcher, Daniel Kilvington, Katie Liston, Theo Lynn, Pierangelo Rosati

08/06/2022, 13:50

Significant flashpoints such as the racist abuse English football players were subject to during Euro 2020 and the culture wars that have ignited over Colin Kapernick’s taking of the knee protest against systemic racism in America, have brought increased attention to the topic of online hate in sport. However, this is not a recent phenomenon. It has been a growing concern for a variety of...

102. Media Representations of Foreign Olympic Athletes in Turkey during the Tokyo 2020

Mine Kızılgüneş, Pınar Öztürk

08/06/2022, 14:10

Keywords: Media, Foreign Athletes, Olympics
Abstract
The rise in the number of Olympic athletes who have switched nationalities has sparked further academic debate in sports sociology over the concepts of nationalism and belongings. Although foreign Olympic athletes have long been represented in Turkey’s national teams, it has been argued that nationality switching in Turkish sports is an...