2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 62: Sport and Media 5

10 Jun 2022, 09:00

Description

Chair: Jochen Mayer
Room: D4A19, Building D Level 4

202. The impact of restrictions applied due to the pandemic of COVID-19 during sports events on the quality of journalism

Ondrej Trunecka

10/06/2022, 09:00

For many decades, the relationship between sport and media was characterised by the main sports communication studies as “symbiotic” (McChesney, 1989) or “win-win situation” (Birkner and Nölleke, 2016). But the “digital (media) revolution” (Bradshow and Minogue, 2019; Pedersen, 2014) changed the conditions significantly. The development of new media and the opportunity to create own content...

203. Discourses surrounding race and ethnicity in televised football production processes.

Jacco Van Sterkenburg, Irene Blum, Mariana Fried

10/06/2022, 09:20

Objectives: This presentation focuses on the meanings given to race and ethnicity (and its intersections with gender) within sports media, with particular attention for the production process in televised football. Televised football is an interesting and highly relevant platform to explore meanings given to race and ethnicity given its combination of whiteness (and male-ness) in its...

204. Informing about sports in times of pandemic. How did L’Equipe reframed its relationship with its readers during COVID-19 lockdown.

Fabien Wille

10/06/2022, 09:40

On March 17th of 2020, France went into two months of total lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a consequence, all sports competitions and events were frozen or cancelled, which deprived French newspaper L’Equipe of its main source of news. Nonetheless, its editorial board decided to keep working. But absent any sporting event, what could the only French sports daily inform about...