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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships33
Major League Missteps: How MLB Mishandled the Astros Cheating Scandal32
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune21
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media20
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero19
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance16
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport15
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’14
Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis13
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry13
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions13
Olympics During the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing Across Platforms During the Tokyo Games13
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange13
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games12
“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain12
Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”12
Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer12
“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs11
The Construction of Human Rights Narratives in the 2022 World Cup: A Critical Examination of US and Qatari News Coverage11
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
Forgiving the Foul: The Role of Moral Decoupling, Emotions, and Forgiveness in Fan Responses to Sports Crises10
Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic10
Embrace Methodological Breadth in Communication and Sport Research – A Response to Cummins and Hahn10
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
Signing Off: An Examination Into Female Journalists Leaving Legacy Media8
War and Peace, Freeze and Thaw: Regional Narratives of North Korea and the 2018 Winter Olympics8
Shifting Sports Gambling Terrain: New Factors Within an Age-Old Activity8
Shifting Time Zones, Shifting Narratives: NBC’s Primetime Broadcast Portrayal of Men and Women Athletes During the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic Games8
Introduction to the Special Issue: Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic Games (2018–2022)8
“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
Feminist Media Scholarship in Communication & Sport : A Response to the 10-Year Review7
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics7
“You Don’t Want Us to Solve This”: Agenda Setting in the Federal Hearings on Name, Image, and Likeness6
Questioning Sports Journalists: Stereotypes, Work Routines, and Color-Blind Racism in Sports Press Conferences6
Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity6
A (Meta) Picture is Worth a Thousand “Likes:” An Analysis of Engagement with Sports Network Images on Instagram6
Gender, Sports, and Cultural Barometers: The State of Play in the Year 20226
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
How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising6
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study5
Role Models or Inferior Participants? Chinese News Portrayals of Gender and Disability in the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games5
The Role of Gender in Evaluating Athletes’ Endorsements of Corporate Social Advocacy Initiatives5
(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
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?5
Why Do People Collect Sportscards? Fan Motivations for Collecting Miniature Sports Media5
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts5
The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport5
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders5
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?5
Mediatized Engagements with Technologies: “Reviewing” the Video Assistant Referee at the 2018 World Cup5
The Local Perspective: Regional Television Framing of Name, Image, and Likeness4
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 20204
Enhancing Our (Global) Understanding: Reflections on the Need for Reaching Beyond Boundaries4
Visions of Maradona: A Liar, a Cheat, Un Cocaïnomane, Un Dealer. UK and France Regarding a Latin American Player4
“I Feel Qatari Today […] I Feel Disabled Today, […] I Feel Like a Migrant Worker Today…”: On Sport, Leadership, and Moral Legitimacy4
“I’m Worried They Will Come Back to Haunt Me”: Examining How Retired National Football League Players Make Sense of Concussion Risks4
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
Finding Teammates on a Messy Playing Field: Continued Thoughts on 10 Years of Theory & Method in Communication & Sport4
On Creating a Place, Space and Time for the Trans Athlete4
“It’s Your Whole Life:” Navigating Identity and Mental Health in Life after Sports4
Media Framing of the International Paralympic Committee’s WeThe15 Disability Inclusion Campaign During Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022: A Comparative Analysis4
It’s Okay to be Not Okay: An Analysis of Twitter Responses to Naomi Osaka’s Withdrawal due to Mental Health Concerns4
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics4
Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance4
Friends or Foes: Predicting Chinese Basketball Viewers’ Attitudes Toward Naturalized Athletes4
“Putting His Off-Field Issues Aside…”: Exploring Online Sport Fan Community Response to Allegations Against Deshaun Watson4
Individuals’ Motivations and Engagement With Paralympic Content on Social Media: A Longitudinal Analysis Across Six Summer and Winter Games4
Mediatization and Doping: Investigating the Interplay in News Framing of Rider/Doping Suspicion During the Tour de France4
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