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Communication & Sport is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Sports, Gender, and Society, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts, Media Studies and Communication.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Communication & Sport, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Sports, Gender, and Society Sport and Mega-Event Impacts Media Studies and Communication Digital Games and Media Media Influence and Health |
| ISSN | 2167-4795 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.01 |
| h-index | 50 |
| i10-index | 324 |
| Total citations | 12,124 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Alabama |
| Journal website | us.sagepub.com |
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The last quarter century has seen a dramatic movement of girls and women into sport, but this social change is reflected unevenly in sports media. This study, a 5-year update to a 25-year longitudinal study, indicates that the quantity of coverage of women’s sports in televised sports news and highlights shows remains dismally low. Even…
One of the long-standing trends in research on gender in sports media is the lack of coverage of women’s sport and the lack of respectful, serious coverage of women’s sport. In this article, we critically interrogate the assumption that the media simply provide fans with what they “want to see” (i.e., men’s sports). Using quantitative…
Scholars have produced a body of evidence demonstrating media portrayals of sportswomen emphasize femininity/heterosexuality versus athletic competence and argue that such coverage trivializes women’s sports. Little research attention has been given to how these portrayals are interpreted by various audiences, including female athletes. This study explores how elite female athletes respond to the ways they…
For 3 decades we have tracked and analyzed the quantity and quality of coverage of women’s and men’s sports in televised news and highlights shows. In this paper, we report on our most recent iteration of the longitudinal study, which now includes an examination of online sports newsletters and social media. The study reveals little…
In this essay, Toni Bruce considers key cultural and social issues at play in the relationship between mediated sport and women. The treatment reflects on over 30 years of research and assesses not only central tendencies and changes in the way media covers women’s sporting events and achievements but also considers how this coverage interplays…
