Communication & Sport

Papers
(The TQCC of Communication & Sport is 5. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero54
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships38
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune24
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance22
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions21
“At Augusta National, Not Talking About Race Is Tradition”: Race and Journalistic Repair Discourse at the Masters Tournament21
Are Combat Sports Too Violent? Effects of Counter-Balancing Perceptions of Violence Through AR-Infused Gamification19
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’18
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media18
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport17
Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis17
Soft Activism in Sport: Semantic and Sentiment Analysis of Well-Being Narratives Across Elite Multi-Sport Athletes16
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry16
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange16
“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs15
“Thug,” “Classless,” and the Policing of Black Womanhood in Sports: A Case Study of Racialized Language and Angel Reese15
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games14
“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain13
Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer12
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 Shows12
Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”12
Reversing the Flow: Morocco’s Harnessing of Diasporic Talent and the Recent Success of the Atlas Lions in International Football11
Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel11
Bridging the Virtual and the Real: The Impact of Metaverse Sports Event Characteristics on Event Marketing Communication Effectiveness11
Forgiving the Foul: The Role of Moral Decoupling, Emotions, and Forgiveness in Fan Responses to Sports Crises11
Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic10
The Construction of Human Rights Narratives in the 2022 World Cup: A Critical Examination of US and Qatari News Coverage10
Golden Girls, National Heroes and Resilient Champions: An Intersectional and Computational Analysis of Social Media Commentary During the 2024 Paralympics10
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 France10
“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 Sport9
Introduction to the Special Issue: Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic Games (2018–2022)9
Shifting Time Zones, Shifting Narratives: NBC’s Primetime Broadcast Portrayal of Men and Women Athletes During the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic Games9
Feminist Media Scholarship in Communication & Sport : A Response to the 10-Year Review9
Shifting Sports Gambling Terrain: New Factors Within an Age-Old Activity9
War and Peace, Freeze and Thaw: Regional Narratives of North Korea and the 2018 Winter Olympics8
Signing Off: An Examination Into Female Journalists Leaving Legacy Media8
From Seasoned Vet to Space-Taker: Gendered Ageism in Coverage of Professional Basketball Player Diana Taurasi’s Final Season8
“You Don’t Want Us to Solve This”: Agenda Setting in the Federal Hearings on Name, Image, and Likeness8
“It Feels Like It’s in Our Back Yard”: Centering “Place” in Local Women’s Sports Media Coverage8
Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity8
A (Meta) Picture is Worth a Thousand “Likes:” An Analysis of Engagement with Sports Network Images on Instagram8
Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, Scholarship, and Systems8
Still Battling for Equity: Examining Biological Sex Portrayals Through the Lens of the Gold Coast During Australian Prime Time Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games8
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders7
Why Do People Collect Sportscards? Fan Motivations for Collecting Miniature Sports Media7
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics7
The Role of Gender in Evaluating Athletes’ Endorsements of Corporate Social Advocacy Initiatives7
Questioning Sports Journalists: Stereotypes, Work Routines, and Color-Blind Racism in Sports Press Conferences7
Gender, Sports, and Cultural Barometers: The State of Play in the Year 20227
Between Opportunity and Scrutiny: Female Winter Olympians Navigating Sports Mediatization7
Finding Teammates on a Messy Playing Field: Continued Thoughts on 10 Years of Theory & Method in Communication & Sport6
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?6
Role Models or Inferior Participants? Chinese News Portrayals of Gender and Disability in the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games6
Narratives of Naturalization of Foreign-Born Football Players in Vietnamese Mainstream Media: The Critical Case Study on Rafaelson Bezerra Fernandes6
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?6
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics6
Social Identity Can be a Team Game: Social Identity and Other Factors that Widen and Bridge Partisan Gaps in Political Perceptions of Sports Media Topics6
Silence, Signals, and Split-Second Meaning: Nonverbal Communication and Collective Sensemaking in Elite Team Sports6
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study6
(Re)Coding the “Black Quarterback”: A 20-Year Critical Quantitative Analysis of Racial Stacking and the Mediated Dichotomy Between “Pro-Style” and “Dual-Threat”6
The Local Perspective: Regional Television Framing of Name, Image, and Likeness6
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 20206
Hybrid Identity in Motion: Eileen Gu’s Cross-Platform Visual Self-Presentation on Weibo and Instagram6
Toward a Measurement Tool for Sports Diplomacy in the News: The Case of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 20226
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts6
The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport6
Friends or Foes: Predicting Chinese Basketball Viewers’ Attitudes Toward Naturalized Athletes5
“I’m Worried They Will Come Back to Haunt Me”: Examining How Retired National Football League Players Make Sense of Concussion Risks5
“It’s Your Whole Life:” Navigating Identity and Mental Health in Life after Sports5
When Dialogue Backfires: Economic Stratification and Engagement Paradoxes in English Premier League Clubs’ Dialogic Communication on X5
Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance5
Enhancing Our (Global) Understanding: Reflections on the Need for Reaching Beyond Boundaries5
On Creating a Place, Space and Time for the Trans Athlete5
“Putting His Off-Field Issues Aside…”: Exploring Online Sport Fan Community Response to Allegations Against Deshaun Watson5
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