Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters

Majumdar, Boria; Naha, Souvik

doi:10.1080/17430437.2020.1776972

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“…In the sport-Covid context, these postmodern aspects are evidenced by, for example, media emphasis on televised, online, and other “virtual” forms of sport, rather than “actual” sport attendance; and, how athletes turned to e-sports due to the cancellation of “real” sport events. These insights on postmodern trends in sport media fit with other studies which highlight how fans move into other categorical roles—as producers, participants, and broadcasters—within contemporary sport (Andrews and Ritzer, 2018 ; Majumdar and Naha, 2020 ; Sturm, 2020 ). They also remind researchers of the creative possibilities and enduring value of particular social theories—such as postmodernism or structuralism—for examining contemporary transformations in social fields such as sport and the media.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 79%

Sport and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structuralist Analysis of Key Themes in the UK Mass Media

Giulianotti

Collison

2020

Front. Sports Act. Living

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This paper provides a systematic, detailed analysis of UK mass media online reports and narratives on sport and Covid-19 during the main lockdown period over March-May 2020. A “structuralist thematic” approach is utilized to identify and to map systematically the main themes within the mass media. The research is based on reports and narratives on sport-Covid which featured in five leading online UK mass media outlets. The analysis sets out four underpinning statuses or dimensions of sport: the existential, normative, socio-cultural, and political. These dimensions connect directly and, respectively, to four sets of binary opposite media themes on sport during the Covid-19 lockdown: sport as absence/presence, selfish/altruistic, crisis/escape, and threat/solution. Each theme features several types of media report or commentary (which we term “narrative or substantive strands”) on sport-Covid. The paper examines the four binary opposites, and their various types of media report and narrative, in detail. It concludes by discussing the theoretical contributions and substantive findings from the study, and some areas for future research.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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Sport and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structuralist Analysis of Key Themes in the UK Mass Media

Giulianotti

Collison

2020

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has challenged global health systems in all countries, and it has had a profound impact on the lives of all members of society. In March 2020 in Spain all non-essential industries were shut down indefinitely and public meetings were restricted, forcing millions of people to stay at home as a preventive measure to avoid the spread of coronavirus, due to the risk of propagation at mass gatherings [ 1 , 2 ]. In addition to lockdown, common strategies to mitigate the effects of a pandemic often include the suppression of mass meetings, travel restrictions through border closures and the use of social distancing measures [ 3 ].…”

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Physical Sports Activities and Exercise Addiction during Lockdown in the Spanish Population

Berengüí

López-Gullón

Angosto

2021

IJERPH

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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to the paralysis of the worldwide economy caused by the population’s lockdown to stop the virus spreading, making it difficult to do exercise. The aim of this study is to analyse the commitment to and feeling of insecurity related to practising sport, sports habits and the profile of the Spanish population during lockdown according to the level of addiction to exercise. The sample consisted of 1019 subjects with a mean age of 35 years old. The variables analysed were exercise addiction, commitment to and feeling of insecurity related to sport, and sport habits. Three groups were identified according to their addiction level to exercise: asymptomatic (n = 202), symptomatic (n = 756), and at risk of addiction (n = 61). The main results indicated that a higher addiction level was associated with a higher number of days and time spent on exercise per week. Six percent of the subjects were at addiction risk, and they had a lower feeling of insecurity towards sport. These findings provide information to governments on the need to promote physical activity programmes at home to promote adequate fitness and mental wellbeing in the population.

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“…There was no guarantee for a success, but many sporting events and professional leagues made plans to resume competition and bring attendees back to events. In fact, some professional leagues have already resumed (without or with a limited number of spectators inside the venue), with others to follow, but the overall stadium experience has significantly changed (DiFiori, et al, 2020;Majumdar & Naha, 2020). While certain safety aspects such as technical features, security checks at entry and the presence of medical staff are already common practice (Kaplanidou & Vogt, 2010;Kulczycki & Halpenny, 2014;Perić, Vitezić, & Đurkin Badurina, 2019;Pickering, Castley, Hill, & Newsome, 2010), current realities impose additional challenges to sporting event organisers who now have to consider and include new non-pharmaceutical protective measures for the safety and security of both active and passive participants.…”

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Getting back to the event: COVID-19, attendance and perceived importance of protective measures

Perić
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Wise
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Heydari
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et al. 2021

Kinesiology (Zagreb, Online)

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Current COVID-19 realities impose additional challenges to sporting event organisers who now have to consider and include new protective measures for the safety and security of both active and passive participants. This study focuses on event consumers and issues related to their intention to attend future sporting events and their perception of how important they find some of the safety-related protective measures when attending sporting events following the COVID-19 crisis. Based on the empirical study of residents from one Middle East and two European countries, the results suggest that, once all restrictions on movement and sporting event attendance is allowed to resume, most of the respondents will attend events in their home country within few weeks. In addition, the respondents from a country that experienced more severe consequences of the pandemic perceive all protective measures as more important than respondents from countries that were less affected.

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Live sport during the COVID-19 crisis: fans as creative broadcasters

Cited by 55 publications

References 7 publications

Sport and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structuralist Analysis of Key Themes in the UK Mass Media

Sport and the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Structuralist Analysis of Key Themes in the UK Mass Media

Physical Sports Activities and Exercise Addiction during Lockdown in the Spanish Population

Getting back to the event: COVID-19, attendance and perceived importance of protective measures

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