Communication & Sport

Papers
(The TQCC of Communication & Sport is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media41
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero34
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships21
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune20
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance18
Are Combat Sports Too Violent? Effects of Counter-Balancing Perceptions of Violence Through AR-Infused Gamification17
“At Augusta National, Not Talking About Race Is Tradition”: Race and Journalistic Repair Discourse at the Masters Tournament17
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’17
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions17
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport16
Olympics During the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing Across Platforms During the Tokyo Games16
Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis15
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange14
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry14
Soft Activism in Sport: Semantic and Sentiment Analysis of Well-Being Narratives Across Elite Multi-Sport Athletes13
Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer13
Forgiving the Foul: The Role of Moral Decoupling, Emotions, and Forgiveness in Fan Responses to Sports Crises13
“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs12
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games11
Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel11
Golden Girls, National Heroes and Resilient Champions: An Intersectional and Computational Analysis of Social Media Commentary During the 2024 Paralympics11
Embrace Methodological Breadth in Communication and Sport Research – A Response to Cummins and Hahn10
Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic10
Reversing the Flow: Morocco’s Harnessing of Diasporic Talent and the Recent Success of the Atlas Lions in International Football10
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 Shows10
Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”9
The Construction of Human Rights Narratives in the 2022 World Cup: A Critical Examination of US and Qatari News Coverage9
Shifting Time Zones, Shifting Narratives: NBC’s Primetime Broadcast Portrayal of Men and Women Athletes During the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic Games8
Middle Aged Men in Lycra and the Performative Irony of Watching Tour de France8
Shifting Sports Gambling Terrain: New Factors Within an Age-Old Activity8
Bridging the Virtual and the Real: The Impact of Metaverse Sports Event Characteristics on Event Marketing Communication Effectiveness8
Feminist Media Scholarship in Communication & Sport : A Response to the 10-Year Review8
Introduction to the Special Issue: Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic Games (2018–2022)8
“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain8
War and Peace, Freeze and Thaw: Regional Narratives of North Korea and the 2018 Winter Olympics7
“You Don’t Want Us to Solve This”: Agenda Setting in the Federal Hearings on Name, Image, and Likeness7
“We’ve … had to Make Ourselves more Visible Because … the Media hasn’t Done it for us”: Theorising a Visibility Bind in Relation to the Growing Prominence of Women’s Sport7
A (Meta) Picture is Worth a Thousand “Likes:” An Analysis of Engagement with Sports Network Images on Instagram7
Signing Off: An Examination Into Female Journalists Leaving Legacy Media7
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics6
Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, Scholarship, and Systems6
Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity6
“It Feels Like It’s in Our Back Yard”: Centering “Place” in Local Women’s Sports Media Coverage6
Why Do People Collect Sportscards? Fan Motivations for Collecting Miniature Sports Media6
Still Battling for Equity: Examining Biological Sex Portrayals Through the Lens of the Gold Coast During Australian Prime Time Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games6
The Role of Gender in Evaluating Athletes’ Endorsements of Corporate Social Advocacy Initiatives5
The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport5
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?5
Toward a Measurement Tool for Sports Diplomacy in the News: The Case of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 20225
Mediatized Engagements with Technologies: “Reviewing” the Video Assistant Referee at the 2018 World Cup5
Role Models or Inferior Participants? Chinese News Portrayals of Gender and Disability in the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games5
Questioning Sports Journalists: Stereotypes, Work Routines, and Color-Blind Racism in Sports Press Conferences5
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study5
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?5
Finding Teammates on a Messy Playing Field: Continued Thoughts on 10 Years of Theory & Method in Communication & Sport5
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts5
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders5
Gender, Sports, and Cultural Barometers: The State of Play in the Year 20225
(Re)Coding the “Black Quarterback”: A 20-Year Critical Quantitative Analysis of Racial Stacking and the Mediated Dichotomy Between “Pro-Style” and “Dual-Threat”5
Narratives of Naturalization of Foreign-Born Football Players in Vietnamese Mainstream Media: The Critical Case Study on Rafaelson Bezerra Fernandes5
The Local Perspective: Regional Television Framing of Name, Image, and Likeness5
Carrying Two Flags? How Social Media Users Perceive the Identity Negotiation Process of Third Culture Athletes4
Alternative Versus Mainstream Media: Representing of Women’s Sport in Iranian Sports News and Users’ Comments4
The There that is There and the There that is Not: Reflections on Taking Stock of Communication & Sport as a Disciplinary Project4
Mediatization and Doping: Investigating the Interplay in News Framing of Rider/Doping Suspicion During the Tour de France4
Individuals’ Motivations and Engagement With Paralympic Content on Social Media: A Longitudinal Analysis Across Six Summer and Winter Games4
On Creating a Place, Space and Time for the Trans Athlete4
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 20204
Friends or Foes: Predicting Chinese Basketball Viewers’ Attitudes Toward Naturalized Athletes4
Visions of Maradona: A Liar, a Cheat, Un Cocaïnomane, Un Dealer. UK and France Regarding a Latin American Player4
A Fracturing Profession on Shifting Terrain: Challenges and Directions for Sports Journalism4
Media Framing of the International Paralympic Committee’s WeThe15 Disability Inclusion Campaign During Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022: A Comparative Analysis4
“Putting His Off-Field Issues Aside…”: Exploring Online Sport Fan Community Response to Allegations Against Deshaun Watson4
Enhancing Our (Global) Understanding: Reflections on the Need for Reaching Beyond Boundaries4
“I Feel Qatari Today […] I Feel Disabled Today, […] I Feel Like a Migrant Worker Today…”: On Sport, Leadership, and Moral Legitimacy4
Social Identity Can be a Team Game: Social Identity and Other Factors that Widen and Bridge Partisan Gaps in Political Perceptions of Sports Media Topics4
Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance4
Between Hype and Reality: The Promises and Pitfalls of Predicting Sports Media Technological Innovation4
Racing With a Purpose: Sustainability in Formula E4
Sports Identification in Situational Problem-Solving: A Framework for Understanding Fans’ Communicative Behaviors in Sports Crises4
Telecasting Tokyo to a Locked Down Nation: Australian Broadcast Coverage of the 2020 Olympic Summer Games4
It’s Okay to be Not Okay: An Analysis of Twitter Responses to Naomi Osaka’s Withdrawal due to Mental Health Concerns4
“It’s Your Whole Life:” Navigating Identity and Mental Health in Life after Sports4
“I’m Worried They Will Come Back to Haunt Me”: Examining How Retired National Football League Players Make Sense of Concussion Risks4
When Dialogue Backfires: Economic Stratification and Engagement Paradoxes in English Premier League Clubs’ Dialogic Communication on X4
Exploring Emotional and Cognitive Priming Effects in Mediated Sports Using Psychophysiological Measures: How Sport Program-Induced Emotions and Ad Schema Congruity Influence Effectiveness of Advertisi4
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics4
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