Gender, Sport and Agenda Setting in a British Newspaper
Following my year-long machine learning analysis on gender representations on The Independent (UK) [for a month long analysis see this post here], here I want to focus on one particular…
Category: Sports
Football Without Fans? Media Spreadability, Twitter, and Bundesliga on New Coronavirus Lockdown
Yesterday I wrote about my feelings in relation to the new normal in sports broadcasting when the Bundesliga resumed its season behind closed doors [Football Without Fans during the New…
Football Without Fans during the New Coronavirus Pandemic Lockdown: A Reflection using Goffman’s Theater Metaphor
Today we had a glimpse of what professional football might look like in this new normal. As a consequence of the new Coronavirus lockdown the Bundesliga resumed its season behind…
Para-Social Interactions, Social Media, and Sport
It is commonly said that social media platforms have disrupted the traditional media ecology by allowing two-way communication between audience and senders (see Gantz and Lewis, 2014). In a way,…
Media Spreadability and Sport
The current worldwide Covid-19 pandemic has halted most – if not all – live professional sport events and leagues. This led sport, marketing and media professionals to scramble for solutions…
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…
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…
