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Sport Communication
... articles from these two journals, representing the work of 43 authors from 20 different universities, are summarized in this issue. Of the nine articles, five covered media representation (TV, print, and social media) of disability, mental illness, and women in sport. Four articles dealt with media consumption behaviour of (a) television viewers (activities while viewing televised sports), and (b) college and professional football players and fans (consumption of social media). 2. Advances in sport ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... the presence and applicability of design thinking in a sport organization. To acheibve this, a qualitative case study of the Sydney Sixers, a sport organization that fields teams in both of Australia’s top-flight domestic cricket competitions: The Women’s and Men’s Big Bash Leagues (WBBL and BBL, respectively), was employed. In line with the authors’ social constructivist approach, data were collected through multiple methods: semi-structured interviews, observation, and shadowing. According ...
Sport Leadership
... influence within these coalitions, and concepts such as emergent and shared leadership, appear to be fruitful avenues for future inquiry. The next two articles featured in this section come from the recent IJSPP special issue on the Policy and Politics of Women’s Sport and Women in Sport. First, Norman, Donnelly, and Kidd (2021) analysed leadership positions and athletic participation data from four separate gender equity studies including 56 universities within the Canadian interuniversity sport system ...
Sport Communication
... Guo’s "Sport Fan Motivation" provided a comparative analysis of basketball fan behavior in the U.S. and China, delving into how regional affiliations shape fandom. Eleanor Crabill, Callie Maddox, and Adam Beissel’s work on the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup bid process explored the coverage of online news media in Australia and New Zealand, highlighting how national pride is woven into sports narratives. Kenon A. Brown, Nicky Lewis, Matthew Barnidge, and Courtney D. Boman's examination ...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... while the second examines diversity and inclusion in rugby. Under the heading of governance, one paper investigates the normalisation of unethical behaviours in sports governing bodies while a second piece examines the complexity of violence against women in sport. In this review, two articles are drawn from each of Communication and Sport, the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, the Journal of Sport Management, and Sport Management Review. One article was published in the Journal ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... examines the same article in more detail from a leadership perspective. Focusing on another male-dominated sporting context – football, Valenti, Peng and Rocha (2021) investigate three countries’ implementation of a policy initiative that aims to raise women’s football profile and visibility. They conclude that various factors relevant to inequality, the policy and the political streams play a role in formulating and developing such a policy initiative, but obliging men’s clubs to invest in women’s ...
Sport Leadership
... (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Jordan Matthews (University of Chichester) is also considered. Two SMR articles are also included in the current edition. First, “Breaking the glass monitor: examining the underrepresentation of women in esports environments” was written by Lindsey Darvin (State University of New York at Cortland), John Holden (Oklahoma State University), Janelle Wells (University of South Florida), and Thomas Baker (University of Georgia). Second, the article ...
Sport Communication
... (1), and in two of the field’s communication-focused journals, Communication & Sport (22 articles) and International Journal of Sport Communication (10 articles). The research covers a total of nine different, but inter-related topic areas, such as women sport and sport media, mental health and sport media, mega-events and media coverage, race and sport media, forms of communications in sport, COVID-19 and sport through media, sport and politics, the profession of sport journalism, and sporting ...
Sport Economics
... since the inception of the JSE in 2002. Football (soccer), baseball, and American football constitute far and away the most studied sports in regard to stadium demand. Importantly, the authors state there is a lack of studies on both the demand for women’s sports and for niche, or other emerging, sports. They also note that outcome uncertainty is a frequently studied topic in assessing demand- a concept that dates to the beginnings of sport economics in the papers by Rottenberg (1956) and Neale ...
Geography of sport management research
... (3) the sport domain of the study context, and (4) the specific sport involved, if applicable. Two examples are presented to illustrate the coding protocol. The first example is Toffoletti, Pegoraro, and Comeau’s study (2021) examining support for women’s sport as demonstrated by fans posting relevant images on Instagram during the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada. We coded the study as North America and as relating to the domain of sport events and the sport of soccer. The location of ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... expresses positive, neutral and negative perceptions. Their findings showed that all CSR-related accounts received more positive tweets about their initiatives than negative ones. 6. Keaton, A. C. (2023). An interpretative phenomenological analysis of Black women Diversity and Inclusion Leaders in sport organizations. Journal of Sport Management, 1(aop), 1-14. Athletic Diversity and Inclusion Officers (ADIOs) are novel leadership positions in sport that create and sustain diverse, inclusive, and equitable ...
Sport Marketing and Sponsorship
... the background for the recent burgeoning academic interest in athlete branding. In the first paper, Cocco et al. (2023) examined the effects of personal branding factors and institutional factors on the potential social media NIL value of men’s and women’s college basketball athletes. Through a linear regression analysis with data collected from the Instagram accounts of the athletes prior to the start of the NIL era in college athletics, the study confirmed positive associations between competitive ...
Sport Management Communications
... student-athlete dissent. Advances in sport communication research As can be recalled, articles covered in the first issue of the sport communication section of SMD focused on topic areas such as media representation of disability, mental illness, and women in sport; and media coverage and consumption of sport (TV and social media). The second issue articles focused on topic areas such as women sport and sport media, mental health and sport media, mega-events and media coverage, race and sport media,...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... with socio-cultural assumptions What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences This paper, published in the Journal of Sport Management by Sveinson & Toffoletti, investigated how women, as mothers and fans, experience fandom. The motivation for this research stemmed from the increasing initiatives of family-friendly sport spectator events to boost engagement and sales to parents and children. They argued that given the increasing ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... Copenhagen, focusing on female immigrants and women-only swimming programmes. The gender-segregated swimming within local sports facilities was highlighted in this study as one of the most effective venues for facilitating integration for minority girls and women. Hoekman, R., Elling, A. & van der Poel, H. (2022). Local Policymaking in Sport: Sport Managers’ Perspectives on Work Processes and Impact, Journal of Global Sport Management, 7:1, 89-111, DOI: 10.1080/24704067.2018.1537682 The authors, researchers ...
Sport Management Communications
... sport, and social psychology and sport media. The specific topic areas that the field’s scholars researched under each theme are listed below: Gender representation in media coverage: gender representation at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games, men and women sports on NBC Tokyo Games coverage, women’s soccer viewership experience during the World Cup, masculinities is sport media; race, gender, and sport in advertisements in Japan, gender representation on the Instagram accounts of NCAA athletic departments,...
Sport Management Ethics and Integrity
... Golf and the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). Deploying a theoretical framework developed from the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu, the study found male-dominated leadership teams, governance structures and practices that led to the exclusion of women from strategically important roles, thus preserving the long-standing position of men within the organisations. The authors concluded that the initiatives taken to increase gender diversity within governing bodies had only a limited impact on gender ...
State of Sport Management Research in the second half of 2023 (July - December): An Overview
... connectedness. For example, the word ‘social media’ dominated in the research published, followed by ‘gender’, ‘Covid-19’, ‘sport policy’ and ‘e-sports’. As figure 8 reveals, the words ‘social media’ are closely connected to ‘women’, ‘public relations’ and ‘nationalism’, and help build a picture of the role of social media in promoting nationalistic discourses in the context of the Olympics and women’s participation. On the other hand, sport policy is connected ...
Geography of sport management research in 2022
... Kuwaiti people have played and attended soccer games. Indeed, the ongoing globalisation of sport leagues and events has increasingly exhibited local variations. Tang, Schallhorn, Guo, and Coombs (2022) investigated viewership behaviour of the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in China, Germany, and the United States. Their findings were analogous to Green and Houlihan’s (2001) observations on the increasing uniformity and diversity of cross-cultural sport systems in the domain of elite sport. In Tang ...
Sport Governance and Policy
... valued diversity and address gender balance. Informed by Foucault’s (1972) conceptualisation of discourse and techniques of power, as well as Bourdieu’s (1984) notions of capital, field and habitus, the authors suggest that resistance to having more women on boards has roots in the sport as a field. Such resistance might be linked to challenges to organisational habitus, particularly in the field of sport (where the masculine identity of men might be perceived as more closely aligned with sport, ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... in this study explored the marketing messages of sport fan merchandise and the resulting implied gendered and fan performances. In doing so, the authors employed a multimodal critical discourse analysis. They analysed the top 20 T-shirts for men and women for five National College Athletic Association institutions on their official e-commerce sites. The authors examined the text descriptions, visual images, and messages perceived when combining text and visuals. They found that the marketing messages ...
Research Methodologies in Sport Management
... referees. They therefore suggested there is a need to understand, normalise and destigmatise mental health conversations and to respect the high-pressure environments referres are working in. Since the prevalence of stress-related issues is greater for women, this study focused on female referees’ well-being by employing a phenomenological approach (Laverty, 2003). Tingle et al, noted that phenomenology is considered paritculaly useful when a certain phenomenon is investigated and when common lived ...
Sport Communication
... and active engagement in expanding the knowledge base within the field of sport communication. Starting with the first issue (of SMD’s sport communication section), the journal addressed the media representation of disability, mental illness, and women in sport, along with the details of sport media coverage and consumption. Moving to the second issue (Issue #2), the scope expanded to include discussions on the connections between sport and politics, the impacts of COVID-19, race, and the significant ...
Sport Economics
... and stadiums. Finally, in contrast to the vast majority of studies on professional team sports in the U.S., this study does not only look at Major Leagues in baseball (Major League Baseball, MLB), basketball (National Basketball Association, NBA, and Women National Basketball Association, WNBA), football (National Football League, NFL), hockey (National Hockey League, NHL), and soccer (Major League Soccer, MLS), but also at the corresponding Minor Leagues. This seems to be particularly relevant since ...
Geography of Sport Management Research in 2022
... consists of two categories. The first category includes articles using community sport settings to explore topics on physical environment or sport facility for sport participation, grassroots sport participation of special groups (e.g., immigrants, women), and views of coaches/managers on community sport development. The second category concerns articles examining various aspects of the identified SFD programmes such as the achievement of programme outcomes, managerial issues, and funding. Sport ...
Sport Economics
... Management? Manifestations of Anti-Blackness in the Field. Journal of Sport Management, Vol. 36 Issue 3 (May). 215-227. Sveinson, K., Taylor, E. Keaton, A. C.I., Burton, L.; Pegoraro, A.; Toffoletti, K. (2022) Addressing Gender Inequity in Sport Through Women's Invisible Labor. Journal of Sport Management, Vol. 36 Issue 3 (May). 240-250.
Sport Leadership
... it is truly a two-way network of a mutually beneficial relationship. Katz et al. (2018) found the IOR for senior woman administrators (SWAs) in intercollegiate athletics was not as cohesive as previously thought. The two studies validate that SWAs as women leaders in amateur US intercollegiate sport do not always engage in mutually beneficial IORs. Misener et al. (2022) conclude their review with not only future research directions but also a call for sport academics and practitioners to come together ...