2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 41: Sport and Media 3

Jun 8, 2022, 3:30 PM

Description

Chair: Siegfried Nagel
Room: D4A19, Building D Level 4

136. Alternative sports programs in an age of platformization: The case of a Taiwanese YouTuber’s sports channel

Yu-peng Lin

6/8/22, 3:30 PM

This research examines alternative sports programs in Taiwan in the current age of platformization. In particular, it employs a platform-based perspective and focuses on alternative sports programs paying attention to global professional sports. Historically, in Taiwan, only the international sports channel or TV station with broadcaster rights produced sports television programs (such as...

137. Publication and citation analysis of the European Journal for Sport and Society

Pamela Wicker

6/8/22, 3:50 PM

This study conducts a publication and citation analysis of the European Journal for Sport and Society. It seeks to identify the characteristics of published articles and the drivers of citations. All articles published in the journal between 2004 and 2020 were entered in a database (N=362). The number of citations was obtained from Google scholar at the beginning of January 2022. The analysis...

138. Football talk: How Spanish youth give meaning to race/ethnicity.

Carmen Longas Luque

6/8/22, 4:10 PM

Many content analyses have shown how journalists draw on racial stereotypes or myths when commenting on live sports such as football or basketball, providing evidence for the important role of sports media in the construction of knowledge about race/ethnicity. For example, one of the most common findings suggests that “Black” athletes are more often associated with physical characteristics, in...

139. Aging bodies, young technology: Discourses of self-tracking, physical activity and health

Marte Knutsson

6/8/22, 4:30 PM

This paper presents analyses from an ongoing project that asks the following research questions: “what discourses are informing aging adults who engage in self-monitoring practices, and how do they navigate the discourses of the body, aging, technology, physical activity and health?”

As Western countries experience a “greying of the population”, tele-health is widely promoted as a means of...