Communication & Sport

Papers
(The TQCC of Communication & Sport is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
One and Done: The Long Eclipse of Women’s Televised Sports, 1989–201971
Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism: Field Theory, Changing Boundaries and Evolving Technologies33
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics22
Understanding Sporting Social Media Brand Communities, Place and Social Capital: A Netnography of Football Fans22
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport21
Challenging Hegemony Through Narrative: Centering Women’s Experiences and Establishing a Sis-Science Culture Through a Women-Only Doping Forum18
Sports Journalism Content When No Sports Occur: Framing Athletics Amidst the COVID-19 International Pandemic15
Gendered Body of Turkish Bikini Fitness Athletes on Instagram15
Analyzing the Presence of Homosexually- Themed Language Among Association Football Fans in the United Kingdom15
Sports Newsrooms Versus In-House Media: Cheerleading and Critical Reporting in News and Match Coverage14
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic13
Let’s Watch Live Streaming: How Streamer Credibility Influences Brand Attitude in Esports Streamer Marketing12
A Magic “Bullet”: Exploring Sport Fan Usage of On-Screen, Ephemeral Posts During Live Stream Sessions12
Mediatization in Times of Pandemic: How German Grassroots Sports Clubs Employed Digital Media to Overcome Communication Challenges During COVID-1911
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 Concussion11
Selling vs. Supporting Motherhood: How Corporate Sponsors Frame the Parenting Experiences of Elite and Olympic Athletes10
Mental Health, College Athletics, and the Media Framing of D. J. Carton’s Announcement to Step Away From his Team10
Exploring Discourses About Race/Ethnicity in a Spanish TV Football Program10
Rediscovering Mediatization of Sport9
Systematic Sexism: Women’s Sports News in a Circle of Gatekeepers and Users on Twitter9
Just How They Drew It Up: How In-House Reporters Fit Themselves Into the Sports Media System8
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics7
Everyone Hates the NCAA: The Role of Identity in the Evaluations of Amateurism Transgressions: A Case Study of the Chase Young Loan Scandal7
“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 M7
A Critical Discourse Analysis of Military-Related Remembrance Rhetoric in UK Sport: Communicating Consent for British Militarism7
‘Your Strength Is Inspirational’: How Naomi Osaka’s Twitter Announcement Destigmatizes Mental Health Disclosures7
It’s Okay to be Not Okay: An Analysis of Twitter Responses to Naomi Osaka’s Withdrawal due to Mental Health Concerns7
#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics7
The Effect of Statistics on Enjoyment and Perceived Credibility in Sports Media7
Framing the Games: US Media Coverage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics7
How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising6
Side-by-Side Sports Reporters: A Between-Subjects Experiment of the Effect of Gender in Reporting on the NFL6
Mediatized Engagements with Technologies: “Reviewing” the Video Assistant Referee at the 2018 World Cup6
Competing as the First Out Transgender Female Olympian: A Twitter Network Analysis of Laurel Hubbard During the 2020 Tokyo Games6
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 Sport6
Home Nation First, but to What Degree?: Nationalism in Chinese Central Television’s Broadcasts of the 2018 Winter Olympics6
“Willpower knows no obstacles”: Examining Neoliberal Postfeminist Messaging in Nike’s Transnational Advertisements for Women6
Exposing a Motherhood Penalty in Sport: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry of Media Stories of Canadian Athlete Mothers’ Journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games5
Sports Fanship Changes Across the Lifespan5
Recontextualizing Barstool Sports and Misogyny in Online US Sports Media5
#Gramming Gender: The Cognizance of Equality on Instagram Accounts of Prominent NCAA Athletic Departments5
Video Assistant Referee in a Small-Nation Context: Intensified Mediatization5
“Detrimental to the Team Dynamic”: Exploring College Student-Athlete Dissent5
“On the Tour, They’re Always Sticking a Microphone in Your Face”: Mediatization of Professional Tennis From the 1980s to the Early 2010s4
Professional Sport and Initial Mental Health Public Disclosure Narratives4
“They Don’t Really Care about my Results, they Prefer Selling my Life Story.” Inspirational Paralympians and Sponsorship4
The Tweet Heard Round the World: Daryl Morey, the NBA, China, and Attribution of Responsibility4
Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports4
A Public Service? Mediatization of the Olympic Games in Croatia and Slovenia4
Beyond Crisis? Institutionalized Mediatization of the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2020 Olympic Games4
“That is Terrible News!”: Media Framing of Mamba Mentality Within Contemporary U.S. Racial and Gender Politics4
Covering the Home Nation at Its Home Games: An Analysis of Australian Nationalistic Broadcast Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games3
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates: The Role of Issue and Source Involvement in Students’ Information Processing about Binge Drinking3
A Space of One’s Own? The Tensions of Being Visible on Instagram for Turkish Female Athletes3
Paralympic Broadcasting in Sub-Saharan Africa: Sport, Media and Communication for Social Change3
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
Extractives Companies’ Social Media Portrayals of Their Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia3
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?3
Sport, Social Justice, and the Limits of Dissent After George Floyd: A Reply to Butterworth3
Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Collective Voice in Women’s Sports Media3
“She’s Twice Their Age”: Representations of Aging and the Creation of an Age Order in Women’s Gymnastics3
Cross-National News Narratives of the Paralympic Games: Computational Text Analysis of the Media Coverage in the United States and South Korea3
A U.S. Medal Agenda? Clock-Time and Salience Analyses of Biological Sex Representation in the 2020 and 2022 NBC Olympic Telecasts3
Mediatization and Doping: Investigating the Interplay in News Framing of Rider/Doping Suspicion During the Tour de France3
What Inspired That Tweet: A Comparative Analysis of Official and Stakeholder-Enacted Crisis Responses During the Urban Meyer/Zach Smith Scandal3
Performance Expectancy of Officiating Technology in Spectator-Based Sport Events: Scale Development and Validation3
The “Descendant of Dragon” or an “American Dreamer”? The Flow of Identity in the Media Discourse of Eileen Gu Between China and the US3
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