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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Immortal 38: How the Media Afterlife of Slovak Ice Hockey Legend Pavol Demitra Created a Marble Hero55
“Crypt Keeper That She Is”: Mariah Bell and the Media Framing of Age in the 2022 U.S. National Figure Skating Championships42
“The Media Answer”: How Athletes Conceptualize Their Relationship to the Press in the Players’ Tribune25
Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance24
Media Coverage of Sports Concussion: An Experimental Study of Framing Effects on Community Injury Perceptions22
“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 Gamification20
‘Discursive Interpretations of Cultural Symbols in Mega Sporting Events: The Case of Messi’s Bisht at the 2022 World Cup’19
A Scoping Review of Research on Online Hate and Sport18
Inspirational and Worthy of Charity: (Mis)Representations of Disability in Sport Media18
Soft Activism in Sport: Semantic and Sentiment Analysis of Well-Being Narratives Across Elite Multi-Sport Athletes17
“Thug,” “Classless,” and the Policing of Black Womanhood in Sports: A Case Study of Racialized Language and Angel Reese17
Task and Social Determinants of Coaches’ Reports of Leader-Member Exchange16
Loved It, Miss It, Would Never Go Back: Why U.S. Local Television Sports Broadcasters are Leaving the Industry16
Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis16
Bridging the Virtual and the Real: The Impact of Metaverse Sports Event Characteristics on Event Marketing Communication Effectiveness15
Reversing the Flow: Morocco’s Harnessing of Diasporic Talent and the Recent Success of the Atlas Lions in International Football14
Forgiving the Foul: The Role of Moral Decoupling, Emotions, and Forgiveness in Fan Responses to Sports Crises13
Competing Together, Nations Apart: Identity and Nationality at the 2023 World Baseball Classic12
Golden Girls, National Heroes and Resilient Champions: An Intersectional and Computational Analysis of Social Media Commentary During the 2024 Paralympics12
Embrace Methodological Breadth in Communication and Sport Research – A Response to Cummins and Hahn12
“Go and Wash up!”: Gender Violence in Female Refereeing and Its Media Coverage in Brazil and Spain12
“I Used to Love Scheifele:” Dominant Narratives on Reddit About the Canadian Division of the Stanley Cup Playoffs12
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly – Situational Crisis Communication and the COVID-19 Pandemic Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games12
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
Azeem Rafiq, an Object or a Subject? “Can the Subaltern Speak?”11
Show HBCU Referee Bias the Red Card: Testing Communication Theory in Division I Women’s College Soccer10
Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel10
Feminist Media Scholarship in Communication & Sport : A Response to the 10-Year Review9
War and Peace, Freeze and Thaw: Regional Narratives of North Korea and the 2018 Winter Olympics9
“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
Signing Off: An Examination Into Female Journalists Leaving Legacy Media9
Shifting Time Zones, Shifting Narratives: NBC’s Primetime Broadcast Portrayal of Men and Women Athletes During the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 Beijing Olympic Games9
Shifting Sports Gambling Terrain: New Factors Within an Age-Old Activity8
Middle Aged Men in Lycra and the Performative Irony of Watching Tour de France8
“You Don’t Want Us to Solve This”: Agenda Setting in the Federal Hearings on Name, Image, and Likeness8
‘National Warriors’ and ‘Solo Celebrity’: Gender and Sport Nationalism in Media Representations of Chinese Women’s Volleyball and Li Na8
A (Meta) Picture is Worth a Thousand “Likes:” An Analysis of Engagement with Sports Network Images on Instagram8
Introduction to the Special Issue: Mediating the East Asian Era of the Olympic Games (2018–2022)8
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
From Seasoned Vet to Space-Taker: Gendered Ageism in Coverage of Professional Basketball Player Diana Taurasi’s Final Season8
Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity7
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders7
Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, Scholarship, and Systems7
Media Framings of the Transgender Athlete as “Legitimate Controversy”: The Case of Laurel Hubbard at the Tokyo Olympics7
“It Feels Like It’s in Our Back Yard”: Centering “Place” in Local Women’s Sports Media Coverage7
Gender, Sports, and Cultural Barometers: The State of Play in the Year 20227
Role Models or Inferior Participants? Chinese News Portrayals of Gender and Disability in the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games6
Why Do People Collect Sportscards? Fan Motivations for Collecting Miniature Sports Media6
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
The Role of Gender in Evaluating Athletes’ Endorsements of Corporate Social Advocacy Initiatives6
Hybrid Identity in Motion: Eileen Gu’s Cross-Platform Visual Self-Presentation on Weibo and Instagram6
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
Auditory Cuteness in Sports Podcasting: A New Lookism?6
Toward a Measurement Tool for Sports Diplomacy in the News: The Case of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 20226
Questioning Sports Journalists: Stereotypes, Work Routines, and Color-Blind Racism in Sports Press Conferences6
Silence, Signals, and Split-Second Meaning: Nonverbal Communication and Collective Sensemaking in Elite Team Sports6
Communication Scholars Should Help Uncover the Causes and Consequences of Mobile Sports Gambling: A Call for Research and Theory Development6
Narratives of Naturalization of Foreign-Born Football Players in Vietnamese Mainstream Media: The Critical Case Study on Rafaelson Bezerra Fernandes6
In the Wake of a ‘Racial Reckoning’: Resistance… or Persistence in Sporting Representations?6
Between Opportunity and Scrutiny: Female Winter Olympians Navigating Sports Mediatization6
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
The Olympic Games and Judo Diplomacy: An Exploratory Discussion on Country Image in Tokyo 20205
Friends or Foes: Predicting Chinese Basketball Viewers’ Attitudes Toward Naturalized Athletes5
The Local Perspective: Regional Television Framing of Name, Image, and Likeness5
Finding Teammates on a Messy Playing Field: Continued Thoughts on 10 Years of Theory & Method in Communication & Sport5
On Creating a Place, Space and Time for the Trans Athlete5
A Smarter and Greener Olympics: Mediatization and Public Reception in the Preparation Stage of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics5
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
“I Feel Qatari Today […] I Feel Disabled Today, […] I Feel Like a Migrant Worker Today…”: On Sport, Leadership, and Moral Legitimacy4
Effects of Cohesion With Teammates on Division-I Student-Athletes’ Mental Health: An Application of the Human Need to Belong and Transactional Stress Frameworks4
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
Alternative Versus Mainstream Media: Representing of Women’s Sport in Iranian Sports News and Users’ Comments4
Visions of Maradona: A Liar, a Cheat, Un Cocaïnomane, Un Dealer. UK and France Regarding a Latin American Player4
Sports Identification in Situational Problem-Solving: A Framework for Understanding Fans’ Communicative Behaviors in Sports Crises4
“It’s Your Whole Life:” Navigating Identity and Mental Health in Life after Sports4
Politics for Losers: The Rhetoric of Sports Tanking as a Practice of Liberal Citizenship4
“I’m Worried They Will Come Back to Haunt Me”: Examining How Retired National Football League Players Make Sense of Concussion Risks4
Constructing Eileen (Ailing) Gu’s Chineseness: Nationalism, Heroism and the Negotiation of National Belonging in Sport4
‘Your Strength Is Inspirational’: How Naomi Osaka’s Twitter Announcement Destigmatizes Mental Health Disclosures4
Individuals’ Motivations and Engagement With Paralympic Content on Social Media: A Longitudinal Analysis Across Six Summer and Winter Games4
“Perjurers, Rapists, and Zealots are Ending Abortion”: Sports Journalists’ Symbolic Annihilation of Women Athletes on Social Media During the National Loss of Abortion Rights4
Between Hype and Reality: The Promises and Pitfalls of Predicting Sports Media Technological Innovation4
Carrying Two Flags? How Social Media Users Perceive the Identity Negotiation Process of Third Culture Athletes4
“Putting His Off-Field Issues Aside…”: Exploring Online Sport Fan Community Response to Allegations Against Deshaun Watson4
Embracing Computational Approaches to Social Media Research: Implications for Theory and Praxis in Sport Communication4
Reimagining History and Solidarity: Nationalist Discourse in Chinese Self-Media’s Coverage of the Belarusian Champion’s Olympic Triumph4
Telecasting Tokyo to a Locked Down Nation: Australian Broadcast Coverage of the 2020 Olympic Summer Games4
Fear of Missing Out: An Antecedent of Online Fan Engagement of Sport Teams’ Social Media4
Media Framing of the International Paralympic Committee’s WeThe15 Disability Inclusion Campaign During Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022: A Comparative Analysis4
The There that is There and the There that is Not: Reflections on Taking Stock of Communication & Sport as a Disciplinary Project4
Enhancing Our (Global) Understanding: Reflections on the Need for Reaching Beyond Boundaries4
Competing as the First Out Transgender Female Olympian: A Twitter Network Analysis of Laurel Hubbard During the 2020 Tokyo Games4
It’s Okay to be Not Okay: An Analysis of Twitter Responses to Naomi Osaka’s Withdrawal due to Mental Health Concerns4
Racing With a Purpose: Sustainability in Formula E4
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