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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Major League Missteps: How MLB Mishandled the Astros Cheating Scandal40
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media34
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero22
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships22
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune21
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport17
‘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
Olympics During the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing Across Platforms During the Tokyo Games17
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance17
Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis16
Forgiving the Foul: The Role of Moral Decoupling, Emotions, and Forgiveness in Fan Responses to Sports Crises15
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange15
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry15
Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer14
Golden Girls, National Heroes and Resilient Champions: An Intersectional and Computational Analysis of Social Media Commentary During the 2024 Paralympics13
“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs13
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games13
Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel13
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 Shows11
“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain11
Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic11
Embrace Methodological Breadth in Communication and Sport Research – A Response to Cummins and Hahn10
The Construction of Human Rights Narratives in the 2022 World Cup: A Critical Examination of US and Qatari News Coverage10
Middle Aged Men in Lycra and the Performative Irony of Watching Tour de France9
Bridging the Virtual and the Real: The Impact of Metaverse Sports Event Characteristics on Event Marketing Communication Effectiveness9
Introduction to the Special Issue: Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic Games (2018–2022)9
Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”9
Feminist Media Scholarship in Communication & Sport : A Response to the 10-Year Review8
“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 Sport8
War and Peace, Freeze and Thaw: Regional Narratives of North Korea and the 2018 Winter Olympics8
Shifting Time Zones, Shifting Narratives: NBC’s Primetime Broadcast Portrayal of Men and Women Athletes During the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic Games8
Signing Off: An Examination Into Female Journalists Leaving Legacy Media8
Shifting Sports Gambling Terrain: New Factors Within an Age-Old Activity8
“It Feels Like It’s in Our Back Yard”: Centering “Place” in Local Women’s Sports Media Coverage7
Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, Scholarship, and Systems7
A (Meta) Picture is Worth a Thousand “Likes:” An Analysis of Engagement with Sports Network Images on Instagram7
“You Don’t Want Us to Solve This”: Agenda Setting in the Federal Hearings on Name, Image, and Likeness7
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics7
Still Battling for Equity: Examining Biological Sex Portrayals Through the Lens of the Gold Coast During Australian Prime Time Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games7
Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity6
The Role of Gender in Evaluating Athletes’ Endorsements of Corporate Social Advocacy Initiatives6
Gender, Sports, and Cultural Barometers: The State of Play in the Year 20226
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders6
Why Do People Collect Sportscards? Fan Motivations for Collecting Miniature Sports Media6
Questioning Sports Journalists: Stereotypes, Work Routines, and Color-Blind Racism in Sports Press Conferences6
Role Models or Inferior Participants? Chinese News Portrayals of Gender and Disability in the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games6
The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport5
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts5
Finding Teammates on a Messy Playing Field: Continued Thoughts on 10 Years of Theory & Method in Communication & Sport5
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics5
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?5
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?5
The Local Perspective: Regional Television Framing of Name, Image, and Likeness5
Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance5
(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
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study5
Mediatized Engagements with Technologies: “Reviewing” the Video Assistant Referee at the 2018 World Cup5
Social Identity Can be a Team Game: Social Identity and Other Factors that Widen and Bridge Partisan Gaps in Political Perceptions of Sports Media Topics5
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
“Putting His Off-Field Issues Aside…”: Exploring Online Sport Fan Community Response to Allegations Against Deshaun Watson4
Sports Identification in Situational Problem-Solving: A Framework for Understanding Fans’ Communicative Behaviors in Sports Crises4
A Fracturing Profession on Shifting Terrain: Challenges and Directions for Sports Journalism4
Competing as the First Out Transgender Female Olympian: A Twitter Network Analysis of Laurel Hubbard During the 2020 Tokyo Games4
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 20204
“I’m Worried They Will Come Back to Haunt Me”: Examining How Retired National Football League Players Make Sense of Concussion Risks4
“It’s Your Whole Life:” Navigating Identity and Mental Health in Life after Sports4
Between Hype and Reality: The Promises and Pitfalls of Predicting Sports Media Technological Innovation4
It’s Okay to be Not Okay: An Analysis of Twitter Responses to Naomi Osaka’s Withdrawal due to Mental Health Concerns4
Fear of Missing Out: An Antecedent of Online Fan Engagement of Sport Teams’ Social Media4
Telecasting Tokyo to a Locked Down Nation: Australian Broadcast Coverage of the 2020 Olympic Summer Games4
Mediatization and Doping: Investigating the Interplay in News Framing of Rider/Doping Suspicion During the Tour de France4
On Creating a Place, Space and Time for the Trans Athlete4
Visions of Maradona: A Liar, a Cheat, Un Cocaïnomane, Un Dealer. UK and France Regarding a Latin American Player4
Media Framing of the International Paralympic Committee’s WeThe15 Disability Inclusion Campaign During Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022: A Comparative Analysis4
Friends or Foes: Predicting Chinese Basketball Viewers’ Attitudes Toward Naturalized Athletes4
Effects of Cohesion With Teammates on Division-I Student-Athletes’ Mental Health: An Application of the Human Need to Belong and Transactional Stress Frameworks4
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
“I Feel Qatari Today […] I Feel Disabled Today, […] I Feel Like a Migrant Worker Today…”: On Sport, Leadership, and Moral Legitimacy4
Enhancing Our (Global) Understanding: Reflections on the Need for Reaching Beyond Boundaries4
Individuals’ Motivations and Engagement With Paralympic Content on Social Media: A Longitudinal Analysis Across Six Summer and Winter Games4
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