The Tour de France as an agent of change in media production

Wille, Fabien

doi:10.1080/09523360412331305663

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“…At the same time, sports have greatly contributed to the popularity and success of media outlets. Early examples of this close relationship are cycling events such as the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, created in the first decade of the 20th century by sports newspapers to promote themselves and their commercial partners (Wille, 2003). Over time, through the narration of sporting 'national heroes' and the representation of the countries' landscapes, both races have added symbolic values to their original mission.…”

Section: Mass Media Sport and The Nationmentioning

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Media discourse, sport and the nation: narratives and counter-narratives in the digital age

Mauro

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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Throughout the 20th century, the growth of international sport events as media spectacles has provided one of the most powerful tools for the projection of national identities. Traditional media, such as newspapers and private and public broadcasters, have been instrumental in this process. Media discourses around sporting events have historically tended to legitimise exclusionary versions of the idea of the nation, reproducing hegemonic gender divisions and marginalising ethnic minorities and immigrants. At the same time, sport is also a contested vehicle for nation-building, providing to some degree opportunities for the expression of different versions of the idea of the nation. The deep changes in the media industry, and particularly the emergence and success among young people of interactive and transnational media, open the way for counter-narratives and alternative media discourses. For example, sport celebrities can use social media to expose and criticise the racialisation of immigrants in sport and beyond. But can the millions who follow them on Instagram or Twitter be counted as a ‘public’?

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Section: Mass Media Sport and The Nationmentioning

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Media discourse, sport and the nation: narratives and counter-narratives in the digital age

Mauro

2020

Media, Culture & Society

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“…Orchestrating a spectacle is a well-trodden strategy for specialist publications looking to sell more issues, as was the case, for example, when the French sports paper L'Auto inaugurated the famous Tour de France cycling race in 1903 (Wille 2003). Much like a cycling race, 'competitive' universities rise, fall, stagnate, and stabilize in a global landscape.…”

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From newspaper supplement to data company: Tracking rhetorical change in the Times Higher Education’s rankings coverage

Hansen

Bossche

2022

Poetics

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“…The fact that the Tour de France is a mega media event was already illustrated by Wille (2003) who showed how the Tour first influenced the style in which journalists reported sports events in newspapers, and how it later became a television spectacle in the wake of which technical innovations were introduced, such as the use of helicopters.…”

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Applying Google Trends’ Search Popularity Indicator to Professional Cycling

Genoe

Rousseau

2021

Journal of Sports Economics

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This study uses Google Trends data to analyze the impact of the main events in the Tour de France 2019 on cyclists’ online popularity in 12 countries and at a global scale. A fixed effects panel model revealed a strong own-country preference. While online popularity increased with the duration of the Tour, race incidents strongly influenced online popularity. Besides the yellow jersey, winning a stage was more important than wearing the green, white or polka dot jersey for most regions. Still, on a global scale, young cyclists’ online popularity benefited more from wearing the white jersey than from winning a Tour stage.

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The Tour de France as an agent of change in media production

Cited by 7 publications

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Media discourse, sport and the nation: narratives and counter-narratives in the digital age

Media discourse, sport and the nation: narratives and counter-narratives in the digital age

From newspaper supplement to data company: Tracking rhetorical change in the Times Higher Education’s rankings coverage

Applying Google Trends’ Search Popularity Indicator to Professional Cycling

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