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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Informing Future Paralympic Media Approaches: The Perspective of Canadian Paralympic Athletes84
Sports News, Commentary and Interviews, From the Other Side: Journalists Seen Through the Eyes of Athletes27
#Gramming Gender: The Cognizance of Equality on Instagram Accounts of Prominent NCAA Athletic Departments27
Playoff Losses, Mayoral Politics, Image Repair, and Inoculation: Open Letter Sport Communication19
Revisiting the Relationship Between Sports Fandom and the Black Criminal Stereotype: A Replication and Extension Study18
“Detrimental to the Team Dynamic”: Exploring College Student-Athlete Dissent17
Collegiate Student-Athletes as Health Advocates: The Role of Issue and Source Involvement in Students’ Information Processing about Binge Drinking16
Racing for Representation: A Visual Content Analysis of North American Running Magazine Covers16
‘Deteriorating Our Relationship for no Good Reason’: Collegiate Beat Writers’ Perceptions of Their PR Counterparts15
“A Manifestation of Their City as a God”: Gritty Memes, the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, and Online Representations of Home14
Major League Missteps: How MLB Mishandled the Astros Cheating Scandal13
Challenging Hegemony Through Narrative: Centering Women’s Experiences and Establishing a Sis-Science Culture Through a Women-Only Doping Forum13
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune12
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?12
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions11
“Why Can’t We Play on Grass?”: An Investigation of Discourse on Sterling Shepard’s ACL Tear11
Playing (& Smoking) by the Rules: Sport Media’s Racialized Coverage of Athlete Drug Use10
Embracing Computational Approaches to Social Media Research: Implications for Theory and Praxis in Sport Communication10
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media10
Determinants of Online Live Esports Viewership With Advanced Data: The Case of League of Legends Champions Korea10
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships9
A U.S. Medal Agenda? Clock-Time and Salience Analyses of Biological Sex Representation in the 2020 and 2022 NBC Olympic Telecasts9
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport9
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts9
Covering the Home Nation at Its Home Games: An Analysis of Australian Nationalistic Broadcast Coverage of the 2018 Commonwealth Games9
“New Heights” in Storytelling?: Considerations for Cross-National Analyses of Broadcasters’ Social Media Coverage of the Paralympics9
Mental Health, College Athletics, and the Media Framing of D. J. Carton’s Announcement to Step Away From his Team8
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?8
This Means More: Branded Solidarity at Liverpool’s Soccer Clubs8
A Magic “Bullet”: Exploring Sport Fan Usage of On-Screen, Ephemeral Posts During Live Stream Sessions7
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero7
Social Media Education Provided by National Governing Bodies of Sport: An Examination of Practices for Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Games Athletes6
Prolonging the Mental Health Moment: Sport, Media, and the Advancement of a More Authentic Athlete6
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’6
Media Framing of Women’s Football During the COVID-19 Pandemic6
(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
Danmu as Parasocial Audience Engagement: A Textual Analysis Based on Television Interviews With Women Athletes5
Consumer Response to Patriotic Ads for Domestic Versus Foreign Brands in Contexts of International Sporting Events: The Role of National Identity Activation and Group Emotion5
Mediatized Engagements with Technologies: “Reviewing” the Video Assistant Referee at the 2018 World Cup5
Systematic Sexism: Women’s Sports News in a Circle of Gatekeepers and Users on Twitter5
“Drive to Survive” Drives New Fans to Formula 1? Studying Viewer Experiences of a Sports Documentary and Its Influence on the Sport’s Fandom5
Are They Really Chinese? Examining Chinese Audiences’ Emotions and Perceptions Toward Naturalized Athletes at the 2022 Winter Olympics5
Olympics During the Pandemic: Predictors of Olympics Viewing Across Platforms During the Tokyo Games5
Essential for the Future of the Field: Leadership and Scholarship by Women in Communication and Sport4
Gendered Body of Turkish Bikini Fitness Athletes on Instagram4
“Willpower knows no obstacles”: Examining Neoliberal Postfeminist Messaging in Nike’s Transnational Advertisements for Women4
“We Need to Wake Our World up”: Collegiate Athletes’ Communicative Constitution of Activism4
Athletic Insiders or Nowhere Men?: NBC’s Primetime Television Coverage of Male Figure Skaters at the 2018 Olympic Games4
Changing the Esport Debate: An Upstart Establishes Firm Footing in the Sports Arena4
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange4
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry4
Trolligans: Conceptual Links Between Trolling and Hooliganism in Sports and Esports4
#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics4
“Guarding Our National Volleyball Sheroes Against Social Media Malice”: Exploring the Rejection-Identification Process Among Chinese Women’s National Volleyball Team Fans4
Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic3
Fragmenting Feminine-Athletic Identities: Identity Turning Points During Girls’ Transition into High School3
Sport Celebrities’ COVID-19 Prevention on Social Media: The Effect of Credibility, Social Distance, Identification, and Message’s Power Style on Health Behavioral Intentions3
Examining Sports Media Credibility, Bias, Political Identification, and Fandom Using a Repeated Cross-Sectional Survey3
Sports Newsrooms Versus In-House Media: Cheerleading and Critical Reporting in News and Match Coverage3
Video Assistant Referee in a Small-Nation Context: Intensified Mediatization3
Sports Issues for the Ages: Life Span and Career Span Narratives Ingrained in Sports Culture3
Is it in the Game? Reflections of Race-Based Stereotypes in EA SPORTS FIFA 223
(S)Tumbling Blocks: Making Sense of and Creating a Model for Mental Blocks in Sport3
Cross-National News Narratives of the Paralympic Games: Computational Text Analysis of the Media Coverage in the United States and South Korea3
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 Concussion3
1,001 Manuscript Data Points: The State of Communication & Sport in 20253
The “Descendant of Dragon” or an “American Dreamer”? The Flow of Identity in the Media Discourse of Eileen Gu Between China and the US3
“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs3
Sports Media Research in the Slovenian Context: Mapping Trends and Suggestions for the Future3
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics3
“If Those Stats Make You Mad, Then You’ve Come to the Right Place”: Theorizing a Women’s Sports Media Counterpublic3
Answering the Question on a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance and Persistence in US Sporting Representations3
Monsters and the Sports They Play: Squaring the Circle of Fan Allegiance and Cognitive Dissonance3
Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports3
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