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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions30
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’28
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study20
A U.S. Medal Agenda? Clock-Time and Salience Analyses of Biological Sex Representation in the 2020 and 2022 NBC Olympic Telecasts18
#Gramming Gender: The Cognizance of Equality on Instagram Accounts of Prominent NCAA Athletic Departments16
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates: The Role of Issue and Source Involvement in Students’ Information Processing about Binge Drinking15
“A Manifestation of Their City as a God”: Gritty Memes, the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, and Online Representations of Home13
A Magic “Bullet”: Exploring Sport Fan Usage of On-Screen, Ephemeral Posts During Live Stream Sessions13
Informing Future Paralympic Media Approaches: The Perspective of Canadian Paralympic Athletes12
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?12
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships12
(Re)Coding the “Black Quarterback”: A 20-Year Critical Quantitative Analysis of Racial Stacking and the Mediated Dichotomy Between “Pro-Style” and “Dual-Threat”12
This Means More: Branded Solidarity at Liverpool’s Soccer Clubs11
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?11
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero10
Covering the Home Nation at Its Home Games: An Analysis of Australian Nationalistic Broadcast Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games10
“Why Can’t We Play on Grass?”: An Investigation of Discourse on Sterling Shepard’s ACL Tear10
“New Heights” in Storytelling?: Considerations for Cross-National Analyses of Broadcasters’ Social Media Coverage of the Paralympics9
‘Deteriorating Our Relationship for no Good Reason’: Collegiate Beat Writers’ Perceptions of Their PR Counterparts9
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media9
Playing (& Smoking) by the Rules: Sport Media’s Racialized Coverage of Athlete Drug Use9
Playoff Losses, Mayoral Politics, Image Repair, and Inoculation: Open Letter Sport Communication9
Embracing Computational Approaches to Social Media Research: Implications for Theory and Praxis in Sport Communication8
Determinants of Online Live Esports Viewership With Advanced Data: The Case of League of Legends Champions Korea8
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune8
Mental Health, College Athletics, and the Media Framing of D. J. Carton’s Announcement to Step Away From his Team8
Dynamic Information Processing of Signage Advertising Embedded in VR-Mediated Sports Through Real-Time Eye-Tracking and Biometric Measures7
Prolonging the Mental Health Moment: Sport, Media, and the Advancement of a More Authentic Athlete7
Extended Reality in Esports: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Research Avenues - An Experts’ Perspective7
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance7
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic6
Social Media Education Provided by National Governing Bodies of Sport: An Examination of Practices for Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Games Athletes6
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts6
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics5
Major League Missteps: How MLB Mishandled the Astros Cheating Scandal5
Answering the Question on a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance and Persistence in US Sporting Representations5
Mediatized Engagements with Technologies: “Reviewing” the Video Assistant Referee at the 2018 World Cup5
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport5
Essential for the Future of the Field: Leadership and Scholarship by Women in Communication and Sport4
“We Need to Wake Our World up”: Collegiate Athletes’ Communicative Constitution of Activism4
Athletic Insiders or Nowhere Men?: NBC’s Primetime Television Coverage of Male Figure Skaters at the 2018 Olympic Games4
Sport Celebrities’ COVID-19 Prevention on Social Media: The Effect of Credibility, Social Distance, Identification, and Message’s Power Style on Health Behavioral Intentions4
Examining Sports Media Credibility, Bias, Political Identification, and Fandom Using a Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey4
Sports Media Research in the Slovenian Context: Mapping Trends and Suggestions for the Future4
Olympics During the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing Across Platforms During the Tokyo Games4
“Drive to Survive” Drives New Fans to Formula 1? Studying Viewer Experiences of a Sports Documentary and Its Influence on the Sport’s Fandom4
Cross-National News Narratives of the Paralympic Games: Computational Text Analysis of the Media Coverage in the United States and South Korea4
Fragmenting Feminine-Athletic Identities: Identity Turning Points During Girls’ Transition into High School4
“Willpower knows no obstacles”: Examining Neoliberal Postfeminist Messaging in Nike’s Transnational Advertisements for Women4
Is it in the Game? Reflections of Race-Based Stereotypes in EA SPORTS FIFA 224
“If Those Stats Make You Mad, Then You’ve Come to the Right Place”: Theorizing a Women’s Sports Media Counterpublic4
Changing the Esport Debate: An Upstart Establishes Firm Footing in the Sports Arena4
Danmu as Parasocial Audience Engagement: A Textual Analysis Based on Television Interviews With Women Athletes3
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry3
(S)Tumbling Blocks: Making Sense of and Creating a Model for Mental Blocks in Sport3
Sports Newsrooms Versus In-House Media: Cheerleading and Critical Reporting in News and Match Coverage3
“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 M3
Extractives Companies’ Social Media Portrayals of Their Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia3
Trolligans: Conceptual Links Between Trolling and Hooliganism in Sports and Esports3
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange3
Are They Really Chinese? Examining Chinese Audiences’ Emotions and Perceptions Toward Naturalized Athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics3
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 Concussion3
Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”3
“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain3
1,001 Manuscript Data Points: The State of Communication & Sport in 20253
“Guarding Our National Volleyball Sheroes Against Social Media Malice”: Exploring the Rejection-Identification Process Among Chinese Women’s National Volleyball Team Fans3
Consumer Response to Patriotic Ads for Domestic Versus Foreign Brands in Contexts of International Sporting Events: The Role of National Identity Activation and Group Emotion3
Systematic Sexism: Women’s Sports News in a Circle of Gatekeepers and Users on Twitter3
#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics3
Mediatization in Times of Pandemic: How German Grassroots Sports Clubs Employed Digital Media to Overcome Communication Challenges During COVID-193
Let’s Watch Live Streaming: How Streamer Credibility Influences Brand Attitude in Esports Streamer Marketing3
Just How They Drew It Up: How In-House Reporters Fit Themselves Into the Sports Media System3
“The Planet’s Champion” Daniel Bryan: How WWE Uses Sport, Neoliberalism and Colorblind Ideology in Professional Wrestling Narratives2
The Use and Effect of Statistics in U.S. Professional Sports Leagues’ X Posts on Engagement, Enjoyment, and Emotion2
Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of its Parts? Aggregation of Sports Events as a Driver of Coverage of (the) European Championships on German TV News Shows2
‘Your Analysis Is as Useless as Your Ovaries’: Women Football Fans’ Experiences on Social Media2
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 20202
Much Ado About Twitter, Twitch, and More: A Maturing Research Agenda2
“A Beautiful Experience”: The Cultural Transitions of Latin American Minor League Baseball (MiLB) Players2
Targeted Social Media Harassment: A Comparative Analysis of Toxicity Directed at Men and Women Sports Reporters2
Baseball Made ‘Whole’: Rhetorical Hierarchy and Post-racial Discourse in Major League Baseball’s Inclusion of the Negro Leagues2
The Construction of Human Rights Narratives in the 2022 World Cup: A Critical Examination of US and Qatari News Coverage2
“That is Terrible News!”: Media Framing of Mamba Mentality Within Contemporary U.S. Racial and Gender Politics2
The “Descendant of Dragon” or an “American Dreamer”? The Flow of Identity in the Media Discourse of Eileen Gu Between China and the US2
Forgiving the Foul: The Role of Moral Decoupling, Emotions, and Forgiveness in Fan Responses to Sports Crises2
Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic2
“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs2
Japanese National Basketball Association Fans and Social Media Acceptance: Exploring the Role of Brand Respect2
Framing the Games: US Media Coverage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics2
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 Sport2
Mechanisms of Emotional Experiences of Online Spectators of E-Sports Events From the Perspective of Interactive Ritual Chain2
Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance2
Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer2
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games2
Breaking the Silence: Examining the Role of Parent Involvement and Concussion Knowledge on Sports-Related Concussion Conversations2
A Sense of Belonging: A Qualitative Investigation Into the Origination of Collegiate Sport Fanship and Fandom2
Video Assistant Referee in a Small-Nation Context: Intensified Mediatization2
Sports Issues for the Ages: Life Span and Career Span Narratives Ingrained in Sports Culture2
Mediatization and Self-Organized Leisure Sports: A Finnish Perspective2
Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports2
Representatives, Reflection, Roles, and Responsibilities: The Metajournalistic Discourse on the Press Boycott of Naomi Osaka1
Shifting Sports Gambling Terrain: New Factors Within an Age-Old Activity1
Modernity, Aesthetics, and Nation Re-branding in Olympics: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games1
Constructing a New Framework for Sport and Development: Investigating the Media Portrayal of Village Basketball Association in China1
The Beginning of a Reckoning: An Application of Situational Crisis Communication Theory and Image Repair to the National Women’s Soccer League1
Alternative Media in Alternative Sport: Platforming Working Conditions in Professional Skateboarding1
Middle Aged Men in Lycra and the Performative Irony of Watching Tour de France1
Social Media News as a Predictor of Sports Gambling Salience, Attitudes, and Behaviors in the United States1
Online Engagement in the Sports Industry: Leagues, Athletes, and Sponsoring Brands1
“A Pillar of all HBCUs”: Deion Sanders, Aspirational Prophecy, and the Divine Promise of Jackson State University Football1
Bridging the Virtual and the Real: The Impact of Metaverse Sports Event Characteristics on Event Marketing Communication Effectiveness1
Opportunities and Challenges for Critical Reporting at the Olympics: Journalists’ Perspectives From Tokyo 20201
Exploring Consumer Cognitive and Behavioral Engagement on a Sport Team’s Twitter Pages1
Analysing Credibility of Femvertising Campaigns: A Focus on Colombian Female Athletes1
Core and Catalyst Criteria Motivating CrossFit Athletes to Reveal or Conceal Their Non-Visible Health Conditions1
Wearable Fitness Devices: An Investigation into Co-constructed Meaning of Use1
Risk, Responsibility, and Prevention in Injury Management: Implications of Concussion (mis)education on Youth Athlete Knowledge Uptake1
On Creating a Place, Space and Time for the Trans Athlete1
It’s ‘Gut Feeling’ Mostly: Online Hate, Uncivil Comments and Content Moderation in Australian Sports Media1
Selfie Scores: A Scoping Review of Research on Athlete Social Media Self-Presentation1
Embrace Methodological Breadth in Communication and Sport Research – A Response to Cummins and Hahn1
Exploring the Dark Side of Esports Online Spectatorship: Passion as a Mediator and Collective Narcissism as a Moderator1
10 Years of Communication & Sport: A Review of Theory, Method, and Authorship1
On the “Basketball Africa League”: Framing Analysis of the Broadcast Commentary of an African Professional Basketball League1
Effects of Communication Style on Competence Evaluations of Soccer Referees: Procedural Versus Relational Framing1
Introduction to the Special Issue: Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic Games (2018–2022)1
Shifting Time Zones, Shifting Narratives: NBC’s Primetime Broadcast Portrayal of Men and Women Athletes During the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic Games1
Rediscovering Mediatization of Sport1
Analyzing the Presence of Homosexually- Themed Language Among Association Football Fans in the United Kingdom1
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