Full Description
Sport, Media and Discrimination provides critical, inter-disciplinary and international perspectives on how sports media constructs and reinforces discrimination in contemporary societies.
The book argues that the importance of sport within modern culture means sports media has a powerful role to play in circulating, and combatting, potentially harmful ideas. Furthermore, the recent explosion of online and social media-related discrimination makes the understanding and tackling of these problems a matter of social importance and urgency. Including theoretical and empirically-informed contributions from leading researchers from around the world, the book examines four core themes: diversity and the sports media; sports media representations and receptions; social media, sport and discrimination; and esports and discrimination. Featuring fascinating contemporary cases including amateur footballers, ethnicity and sports media; gender imbalance in Australian sports media; the legal regulation of social media; and the digital representation of Black women footballers in the FIFA videogame, the book offers a clear sense of the key issues and questions in this field, while offering potential solutions and ways forward.
This book is important reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, sports media and communication, gender studies, 'race' and racism, media studies, or the impact of technology on society.
Contents
Introduction. Part I: Diversity and the Sports Media Industry. 1. The Gender Imbalance in Australian Sports Media. 2. How Sports Media Undermines Women's Potential in an Age of Empowerment: A Field of Contradictions. 3. Activism or Journalism? An Auto-Ethnography of Brazilian Media in Loco Coverage of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Part II: Sports Media Representations and Receptions. 4. Deriving Meaning from Spoken and Unspoken Frames in Sports Media: What Content Analysis Tells Us About Diversity. 5. Media Coverage of the Growth of Women's Sport: Disentangling Discursive Threads. 6. How Racism is Expressed, Reproduced, and Challenged in Online Dutch Football Forums. Part III: Sport, Social Media and Online Harms. 7. Under Siege: Hegemonic Masculinity and Online Harassment in Sports Journalism. 8. Online Abuse in Sport: Legal Implications. 9. Sports Journalists and Online Harms: Effective Protection Practices and Policies. Part IV: Esports and Discrimination. 10. Gender Equality in Esports Organizations. 11. Gender Dynamics in Sports Video Games: Levelling the Playing Field. 12. Social Inclusion and Exclusion in Esports Live Events: Insights From the 2024 Virtual Cycling World Championship.
