Communication & Sport

Papers
(The median citation count of Communication & Sport is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Women’s Televised Sports, 1989–201952
Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism: Field Theory, Changing Boundaries and Evolving Technologies28
Active Within Structures: Predictors of Esports Gameplay and Spectatorship22
Fulfilling the Basic Psychological Needs of Esports Fans: A Self-Determination Theory Approach22
The Face of Mental Health: Kevin Love and Hegemonic Masculinity in the NBA21
Gaming Gone Viral: An Analysis of the Emerging Esports Narrative Economy21
Understanding Sporting Social Media Brand Communities, Place and Social Capital: A Netnography of Football Fans18
Smart Stadium as a Laboratory of Innovation: Technology, Sport, and Datafied Normalization of the Fans15
Motivational Differences Among Viewers of Traditional Sports, Esports, and NBA 2K League15
Analyzing the Presence of Homosexually- Themed Language Among Association Football Fans in the United Kingdom14
Royce White, DeMar DeRozan and Media Framing of Mental Health in the NBA14
Cyber Racism Toward Black Athletes: A Critical Race Analysis of TexAgs.com Online Brand Community14
Challenging Hegemony Through Narrative: Centering Women’s Experiences and Establishing a Sis-Science Culture Through a Women-Only Doping Forum13
Taegeuk Warriors with Blue Eyes: A Media Discourse Analysis of the South Korean Men’s Olympic Ice Hockey Team and Its Naturalized Athletes12
“I’m Not going to the f***ing White House”: Twitter Users React to Donald Trump and Megan Rapinoe12
Consuming for the Greater Good: “Woke” Commercials in Sports Media12
Gendered Body of Turkish Bikini Fitness Athletes on Instagram10
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics9
Prejudice in the People’s Game: A Content Analysis of Race/Ethnicity in Polish Televised Football9
Sports Journalism Content When No Sports Occur: Framing Athletics Amidst the COVID-19 International Pandemic9
Dimensions of Sense of Membership in a Sport Fan Community: Factors, Outcomes, and Social Capital Implications9
Sports Newsrooms Versus In-House Media: Cheerleading and Critical Reporting in News and Match Coverage9
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport9
Shared Space: How North American Olympic Broadcasters Framed Gender on Instagram9
Duty of Karius: Media Framing of Concussion Following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final9
Let’s Watch Live Streaming: How Streamer Credibility Influences Brand Attitude in Esports Streamer Marketing9
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic9
Adoption of Innovations in Digital Sports Journalism: The Use of Twitter by German Sports Journalists8
The Gender of Sports News: Horizontal Segregation and Marginalization of Female Journalists in the Swiss Press8
Everyone Hates the NCAA: The Role of Identity in the Evaluations of Amateurism Transgressions: A Case Study of the Chase Young Loan Scandal7
Exploring Discourses About Race/Ethnicity in a Spanish TV Football Program7
The Rio 2016 Paralympic Games: The Visibility of People With Disabilities in Brazil as a Possible Legacy7
Media Framing of the Unified Korean Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team7
A Magic “Bullet”: Exploring Sport Fan Usage of On-Screen, Ephemeral Posts During Live Stream Sessions7
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics6
Just How They Drew It Up: How In-House Reporters Fit Themselves Into the Sports Media System6
Systematic Sexism: Women’s Sports News in a Circle of Gatekeepers and Users on Twitter6
Fair Go? Indigenous Rugby League Players and the Racial Exclusion of the Australian National Anthem5
“Detrimental to the Team Dynamic”: Exploring College Student-Athlete Dissent5
How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising5
Towards a Social Justice Disposition in Communication and Sport Scholarship5
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Military-Related Remembrance Rhetoric in UK Sport: Communicating Consent for British Militarism5
The Effect of Statistics on Enjoyment and Perceived Credibility in Sports Media5
Rediscovering Mediatization of Sport5
“Cutting Editors Faster Than We’re Cutting Reporters”: Influences of The Athletic on Sports Journalism Quality and Standards5
Side-by-Side Sports Reporters: A Between-Subjects Experiment of the Effect of Gender in Reporting on the NFL5
Masculinities, Media and the Rugby Mind: An Analysis of Stakeholder Views on the Relationship Between Rugby Union, the Media, Masculine-Influenced Views on Injury, and Concussion4
“Posting More than Just a Black Square”: National Collegiate Athletic Association Student-Athletes’ Perceptions of the Athletic Department’s Role in Social Media, Racial Justice, and the Black Lives M4
Media Narratives About Concussions: Effects on Parents’ Intention to Inform Their Children About Concussions4
#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics4
Recontextualizing Barstool Sports and Misogyny in Online US Sports Media4
Mediatization in Times of Pandemic: How German Grassroots Sports Clubs Employed Digital Media to Overcome Communication Challenges During COVID-194
Mental Health, College Athletics, and the Media Framing of D. J. Carton’s Announcement to Step Away From his Team4
What Inspired That Tweet: A Comparative Analysis of Official and Stakeholder-Enacted Crisis Responses During the Urban Meyer/Zach Smith Scandal3
Professional Sport and Initial Mental Health Public Disclosure Narratives3
How Do You Categorize Yourself as a Sports Fan?: A New Scale of Sports Fan Social–Personal Identity Salience (FSPIS) and Its Consequences3
“That is Terrible News!”: Media Framing of Mamba Mentality Within Contemporary U.S. Racial and Gender Politics3
Sports Fanship Changes Across the Lifespan3
Mediatized Engagements with Technologies: “Reviewing” the Video Assistant Referee at the 2018 World Cup3
Home Nation First, but to What Degree?: Nationalism in Chinese Central Television’s Broadcasts of the 2018 Winter Olympics3
Selling vs. Supporting Motherhood: How Corporate Sponsors Frame the Parenting Experiences of Elite and Olympic Athletes3
“On the Tour, They’re Always Sticking a Microphone in Your Face”: Mediatization of Professional Tennis From the 1980s to the Early 2010s3
A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Parasocial Relationships and Breakups With Characters of a Health-Related TV Show on Self-Efficacy and Exercise Behavior: The Case of The Biggest Loser3
Video Assistant Referee in a Small-Nation Context: Intensified Mediatization3
Framing the Games: US Media Coverage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics3
#Gramming Gender: The Cognizance of Equality on Instagram Accounts of Prominent NCAA Athletic Departments3
A Space of One’s Own? The Tensions of Being Visible on Instagram for Turkish Female Athletes3
The Tweet Heard Round the World: Daryl Morey, the NBA, China, and Attribution of Responsibility3
Performance Expectancy of Officiating Technology in Spectator-Based Sport Events: Scale Development and Validation3
Extractives Companies’ Social Media Portrayals of Their Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia3
Do Americans Really Support Black Athletes Who Kneel During the National Anthem? Estimating the True Prevalence and Strength of Sensitive Racial Attitudes in the Context of Sport3
“Willpower knows no obstacles”: Examining Neoliberal Postfeminist Messaging in Nike’s Transnational Advertisements for Women3
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates: The Role of Issue and Source Involvement in Students’ Information Processing about Binge Drinking2
News Routines in the TV Sports Department: Shifting Expectations and Technology in an Increasingly Digital Landscape2
Less Partisan and Less Aggressive? The Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Discourse of “El Clásico” on Spanish Radio2
Mediatization and Doping: Investigating the Interplay in News Framing of Rider/Doping Suspicion During the Tour de France2
Celebrating a Decade of Intellectual Development—and a Vision for the Future of Communication and Sport2
At the Buzzer: Parting Shots on Communication and Sport2
Exploring the Dark Side of Esports Online Spectatorship: Passion as a Mediator and Collective Narcissism as a Moderator2
Much Ado About Twitter, Twitch, and More: A Maturing Research Agenda2
A U.S. Medal Agenda? Clock-Time and Salience Analyses of Biological Sex Representation in the 2020 and 2022 NBC Olympic Telecasts2
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?2
Determinants of Image and Image Fit: A Study of Four Sports and Their Domestic and International Governing Organizations2
Storying the Gender Binary in Sport: Narrative Motifs Among Transgender, Gender Non-Conforming Athletes2
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sport, Media and Communication for Social Change2
‘Your Strength Is Inspirational’: How Naomi Osaka’s Twitter Announcement Destigmatizes Mental Health Disclosures2
“Friday Night is their Super Bowl”: A Relational Investigation Regarding Occupational Stress Among American High School Football Officials2
Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Collective Voice in Women’s Sports Media2
There Is No Unity, Only Politics: A Reply to Kurtz2
Fragmenting Feminine-Athletic Identities: Identity Turning Points During Girls’ Transition into High School2
Playoff Losses, Mayoral Politics, Image Repair, and Inoculation: Open Letter Sport Communication2
Racing for Representation: A Visual Content Analysis of North American Running Magazine Covers2
Recruiting Reporters’ Perceptions of Ethical Issues2
Competing as the First Out Transgender Female Olympian: A Twitter Network Analysis of Laurel Hubbard During the 2020 Tokyo Games2
Sport, Social Justice, and the Limits of Dissent After George Floyd: A Reply to Butterworth2
Gender, Sports, and Cultural Barometers: The State of Play in the Year 20222
Exploring Emotional and Cognitive Priming Effects in Mediated Sports Using Psychophysiological Measures: How Sport Program-Induced Emotions and Ad Schema Congruity Influence Effectiveness of Advertisi2
A Public Service? Mediatization of the Olympic Games in Croatia and Slovenia2
Major League Baseball Broadcasts and the Delineation of Traditional and Modern Fact Metrics2
Cross-National News Narratives of the Paralympic Games: Computational Text Analysis of the Media Coverage in the United States and South Korea2
Major League Missteps: How MLB Mishandled the Astros Cheating Scandal2
Low Hanging Fruit: How Sports Talk Radio Hosts Discuss Racism2
Social Media Education Provided by National Governing Bodies of Sport: An Examination of Practices for Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Games Athletes1
A Fracturing Profession on Shifting Terrain: Challenges and Directions for Sports Journalism1
“Dabo Wears Male Rompers”: Examining Expressions of Hegemonic Masculinity and Identity in ESPN’s College GameDay1
Still Battling for Equity: Examining Biological Sex Portrayals Through the Lens of the Gold Coast During Australian Prime Time Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games1
Incommensurability Between “Filial Daughter” and “All-Capable Princess”: Discursive Legitimation in Chinese Media Coverage of Quan Hongchan and Gu Eileen1
Targeted Social Media Harassment: A Comparative Analysis of Toxicity Directed at Men and Women Sports Reporters1
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 20201
Brand Novelty and Publicity About Athlete Endorsers Affect Psychological Processing of Ads1
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?1
From Save The Crew to Saved The Crew: Constitutive Rhetoric, Myth, and Fan Opposition to Sports Team Relocation1
Stay Woke: An Analysis of How Referees Evaluate the In-Game Communication of a Historically Black College and University that Competes in a Predominantly White Institution Conference1
“They Don’t Really Care about my Results, they Prefer Selling my Life Story.” Inspirational Paralympians and Sponsorship1
Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games1
Commodifying Black Expressivity: Race and the Representational Politics of Streetball1
A Summer Country’s Coverage of a Winter Event: Australian Nationalistic Broadcast Focus of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games1
Media Representations as a Form of Stacking: Male and Female Athletes Featured on Men’s Magazine Covers, 1980–20191
Olympics During the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing Across Platforms During the Tokyo Games1
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships1
Informing Future Paralympic Media Approaches: The Perspective of Canadian Paralympic Athletes1
The Influence of North American Ownership on the Business, Management, and Communication Model of Spanish Professional Football: A Case Study of Real Club Deportivo Mallorca (2016–2021)1
Exposing a Motherhood Penalty in Sport: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry of Media Stories of Canadian Athlete Mothers’ Journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games1
Construction of Mediated National Identity Through Sports Journalists Twitter Feed1
Fanatic or Ultras: Tribune Culture in Turkey1
Baseball Made ‘Whole’: Rhetorical Hierarchy and Post-racial Discourse in Major League Baseball’s Inclusion of the Negro Leagues1
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange1
Covering the Home Nation at Its Home Games: An Analysis of Australian Nationalistic Broadcast Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games1
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