Media Disruption in Sport: Twitter and UFC 229 McGregor v Khabib
Continuing with my approach of reheating old social network data – as we are still without live sports due to Covid-19 pandemic – I will use a Twitter network I…
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Crisis Management and PR in Sports
At the end of February – before Covid-19 stole the sport press attention in Great Britain – BBC aired their Panorama investigation on the links between the now-suspended coach Alberto…
Gendered Sports Media – The Independent (UK)
Following my analysis on unfair coverage of women’s sport on BBC Sport, where only 13% of the news where exclusively on women’s events, I turn my attention now to another…
An Answer for Male-Female Inequalities in Sport Broadcasting?
As I have discussed on a previous post, women’s sports receive a fraction of media coverage in comparison to men’s sport. In my analysis of BBC Sport only 13% of…
Media Roles and Brazilian Football – Grêmio vs Internacional
As I have mentioned before, the idea of this blog is to reflect on the relationships between society, media, and sport. Maybe an initial topic that is interesting to think…
When Sport and Politics Meet in Social Media
The beginning of March 2020 was a special week in the USA’s political calendar. Super Tuesday is the day when the majority of states hold the primaries and caucuses, and when this…
Sport Media Patterns in the UK during Coronavirus Pandemic
In a previous post I have presented the publication patterns in the sport section of four different media outlets in the UK: The Independent, The Guardian, Daily Mail, and Daily…
Covid-19, Sports and Google Trends
With the current Covid-19 worldwide pandemic where most – if not all – professional sport competitions suspended, I started wondering what sport aficionados have done to fill this void. Initially,…
