Twitter and sports journalism in Germany: Application and networks during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

Grimmer, Christoph G.; Horky, Thomas

doi:10.5897/jmcs2017.0596

J. Media Commun. Stud.

2018

DOI: 10.5897/jmcs2017.0596

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Twitter and sports journalism in Germany: Application and networks during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

Christoph G. Grimmer¹,

Thomas Horky²

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Being a Female Sports Journalist on Twitter: Online Harassment, Sexualization, and Hegemony

DEMİR

Ayhan

2022

International Journal of Sport Communication

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Online harassment toward women in social networks can occur in many forms such as contempt, profanity, insult, sexual desire, pruriency, physical threat, misogyny, and so on. Particularly, women with high social status and influence over society, such as female journalists, are more frequently exposed to online harassment. In an area such as sport, where male hegemony is dominant, female sports journalists are exposed to online harassment both in social media and in their professional lives. In modern Muslim countries such as Turkey, the controversial position of women is reflected in social media networks, and female journalists can receive harassment, as well as support. As a result of the present study, which evaluated the online harassment experienced by female sports journalists in Turkey on Twitter, as well as the subdimensions of the harassment observed using the netnographic method, it was determined that female sports journalists are frequently exposed to online harassment on Twitter. Based on the findings obtained in the present study, the most frequently received comments on Twitter by female sports journalists are derogatory and sarcastic, focusing on the physical appearance of women, exclusionary from a hegemonic perspective, and involving emotional harassment, physical threat, and profanity, respectively.

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Being a Female Sports Journalist on Twitter: Online Harassment, Sexualization, and Hegemony

DEMİR

Ayhan

2022

International Journal of Sport Communication

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Self-Presentation and Social Media Usage: A Case Study of Professional Alpine Skiing Athletes During the Winter Olympic Games and World Cup

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Hinds

Kopp

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International Journal of Sport Communication

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Social media sites are rich communication and marketing tools used by athletes to promote their “brand” and interact with fans. Indeed, the proliferation of social media has led to athletes promoting themselves across multiple platforms. This study examined how the world’s top 10 professional alpine skiing athletes used social media to present themselves and engage with fans during the 2017–18 World Cup and 2018 Winter Olympic Games. The data for the latest Winter Olympic Games in 2022 (organized under changed circumstances because of COVID-19) were not available for this study at the time of finalization. Guided by self-presentation theory, this study used a content analysis to examine how athletes presented themselves in social media photographs. The results demonstrated that athletes employed similar posting patterns across the social media platforms (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram). The posting distribution per athlete and channel was different, as some athletes used the same posts across all channels. Twitter boasted the highest posting frequency. Based on the coded social media posts, athletes’ self-presentation mainly focused on business life content. Thus, they appeared as dressed but posed, a finding that aligns with Goffman’s notion of front-stage performance. This case study extends the literature as it involves an analysis of self-presentation across multiple channels, comparing two international events while using a sample of one sport.

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Public service media, sports and cultural citizenship in the age of social media: An analysis of BBC Sport agenda diversity on Twitter

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Rojas-Torrijos

2021

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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As a crucial part of their mandate, public service media have historically used sports to construct and nurture cultural citizenship. In a landscape characterised by dwindling resources and growing competition from pay-TV channels and on-demand streaming services, concerns about how public service media will enhance cultural citizenship through new platforms, including social media, are all the greater. In the digital age, delivering diverse content should remain a foundation of public service media in their countless platforms: public media should not only concentrate on major sports but also provide exposure to traditionally underrepresented disciplines and individuals, including sportswomen and athletes with disabilities. Through content analysis, this research examines the agenda diversity offered by the British Broadcasting Corporation through its sports-centred Twitter account ( @BBCSport). The analysis of 10,821 tweets indicates how the British Broadcasting Corporation's content reinforces, rather than counteracts, the long-standing diversity imbalances in the analogue age. This case study facilitates an understanding of the nuanced relationship among public service media, social media and sports, demonstrating that more content does not necessarily ensure diversity. The football-driven, male-centred and able-bodied agenda displayed by @BBCSport signals that public service media should reframe their social media strategies to adequately contribute to fostering cultural citizenship.

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Twitter and sports journalism in Germany: Application and networks during the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics

Cited by 5 publications

References 32 publications

Being a Female Sports Journalist on Twitter: Online Harassment, Sexualization, and Hegemony

Being a Female Sports Journalist on Twitter: Online Harassment, Sexualization, and Hegemony

Self-Presentation and Social Media Usage: A Case Study of Professional Alpine Skiing Athletes During the Winter Olympic Games and World Cup

Public service media, sports and cultural citizenship in the age of social media: An analysis of BBC Sport agenda diversity on Twitter

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