Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Sports Media"”.
-
Human Aggression and Sports Media Violence
… more perspective on human aggression and how sports media violence affects aggression levels. Anderson (1997) defined aggression as behavior that is intended to harm others or one's self. Anderson (2001) defined media violence as a portrayal of intentional harmful behavior directed at another …
-
Uses and Gratification of Sports Media Audiences
With the exposure of mass media, sports fans are able to enjoy games in real time in their homes (Beck & Bosshart, 2003; Phua, 2010). While just watching sports broadcasts, fans are likely to share the game experience with family, friends, and other fans who are following the same team (Gantz & …
-
A Survey Of Women in Sports Media
<p>Since 1995 (Miller and Miller), women in sports media (WSM) have been citing the difficulties of balancing their careers and their personal lives, specifically the challenges of family life. Previous research has shown that most WSM are leaving their careers between six to ten years on the job …
-
Fairer, Not Equal: Elite Professional Female Athletes And Women's Sports Media Coverage
… professional female athletes in regards to the media coverage of women’s sports and explores how these athletes view themselves as members of society. Method: Data were collected by individual semistructured interviews between the primary researcher and 12 members of the National Women’s Soccer …
-
Making It Pay to be a Fan: The Political Economy of Digital Sports Fandom and the Sports Media Industry
… sociological examinations of the role that the sports media industry and mediated sport fandom plays in the political economy of the Internet. The Internet has structurally changed the way that sport fans access sport and accelerated the processes through which the capitalist actors in the …
-
E-sports broadcasting
In this work, I situate e-sports broadcasting within the larger sports media industrial complex, discuss e-sportscasters, and investigate the economics behind the growing e-sports industry. E-sports, often referred to as competitive or professional gaming, stands as a prime example of the merger of …
-
Credibility of female sportscasters: college students' perceptions of women in the field
… but women will not truly earn their place in the sports world until they are acknowledged as being an intelligent, credible voice of sports information as well. While the number of women athletes is on the rise, their acceptance in the field of sports media as female sportscasters and commentators …
-
"Was Anyone Out There Watching Last Night?": The Creation and Early History of New England Sport Network, 1980-1989
<p>In the United States, regional sports networks broadcast games of home teams to audiences in specific communities, or geographical areas. Ownership of regional sports network by sports teams presents a unique type of vertical integration. Regional sports networks use distinctive programming to …
-
Media Framing of the Steroids Scandal in Major League Baseball
… frame valence, and the personalization of media coverage of the steroid scandal in Major League Baseball. Research guided by framing theory found 2,353 frames present in the initial analysis and 2,834 frames present after the post hoc analysis. Generic frames were more prevalent than …
-
Local Media and the Olympic Bidding Process: A political economic analysis of Calgary’s 1988 and 2026 Olympic pursuits
… changes to the political economy of the local media industry impact public opinion by analyzing two case studies: Calgary’s successful bid for the 1988 Olympic Winter Games and the city’s failed bid exploration for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. The Olympic Games embody a melange …
-
The Quarterbacks of the NFL Draft: A Study into the Media Coverage of the 2012 and 2020 First Round Quarterbacks
… and compare the themes created, by the print media, utilized to ascribe identity to college quarterbacks as they are entering the NFL Draft. The study will compare the four first-round quarterbacks from the 2020 NFL Draft and four first-round quarterbacks from the 2012 NFL Draft; which because …
-
Televisual sports videogames
Over the three decade long history of sports videogame development, design conventions have lead to the emergence of a new sports game genre: the televisual sports videogames. These games, which usually simulate major professional or college sports, look and sound like television, and they use …
-
"Cause I'm Young and I'm Black and My Hat's Real Low": Race, Hip-Hop, and Transformations in the NBA During the Late 1990s and Early 2000s
… such, this work examines the ways in which the media and the NBA responded to and managed the new generation of black players during the late 1990s and early 2000s while marketing to primarily white audiences. This time period is important in that it was unapologetically coined the 'thug era' by …
-
Self-Representation of Black Queer Athletes in the WNBA: Resistance to Misogynoir and Heteronormativity in Women's Basketball
… work is a critical discourse analysis of the media (mis)representations and self-representations of Black queer women athletes in the WNBA. WNBA players have found paths of resistance and self-representation through social media and their relationships with individual journalists in response …
-
The Olympic/Media Complex : the development and relationships of Olympic marketing
… of sponsorship and its relation to the mass media and the International Olympic Committee. This thesis seeks to assess the significance of sponsorship at the Olympics from a media event perspective. The study conducts the critique through a textual analysis of marketing and Olympic …
-
The gendering of sports news: An investigation into the production, content and reception of sports photographs of athletes in New Zealand newspapers.
… content, meaning and reception of photographs of sportswomen featured in New Zealand newspapers, in order to establish the relationship between media representations and cultural understandings of sportswomen and women’s sport. The study adopts a feminist cultural studies perspective and questions …
-
Digital media to inspire and sustain sport participation in urban areas
… research looks to understand the role digital media plays to inspire and sustain sports participation and how digital media could be used as a socially inclusive tool. The study explores if strategically packaged digital media could be used in a socially inclusive way to increase or sustain …
-
Moving the goalposts: the transformation of television sport in the UK (1992-2014)
… sport remains an underresearched area in media studies and is a subject that lacks a ready-made theoretical context. Consequently, a political economy approach - including ideas about value, commodification, transformations, power-relationships and the emergence of a profit-motivated …
-
The Changing Image of the 1960s Football Hero: an interrogation of the effects of media on representations of the star player
… Its principal aim has been to explore the media representation of the evolution of the visual image of the football hero. This through the study of primary source archive material in the form of media images held by the National Football Museum archive and the National Photographic …
-
The Lived Experiences of Transgender Footballers in the UK
… about the anti-trans rhetoric in the elite sports media and how this affects them participating in lower-level sport. This study supports the need to further explore the experiences of trans* people in low-level competitive sport and how football and other sports can make themselves more …
Page 1 of 2