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Politics on the Pitch – How Is Mediatized Football Consumption Related to the Exposure to and Recall of Political Incidents During the Euro 2024? 球场上的政治——2024年欧洲杯期间政治事件的曝光和回忆与被调解的足球消费有何关系？

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-15 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251378770

Daniel Vogler, Manuel Arrigo

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“Red Card to Violence Against Women”: Sexist Discourses on Women’s Football in YouTube Comments From Türkiye “对女性施暴的红牌”：YouTube评论中关于女足的性别歧视言论

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251377394

Yavuz Demir

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Mapping Live Sport Media Technologies: Developing a Taxonomy 绘制现场体育媒体技术：开发分类

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-10 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251377982

Sanghyeon Kim, Adam Karg, Tim Breitbarth, Katherine Raw

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Between Hype and Reality: The Promises and Pitfalls of Predicting Sports Media Technological Innovation 在炒作与现实之间：预测体育媒体技术创新的承诺与陷阱

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251380213

Andrew C. Billings

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Attentional and Evaluative Processing of Split-Screen Advertisements Embedded in Mediated Sports: An Eye-Tracking and Biometric Study 体育运动中嵌入的分屏广告的注意和评价加工：眼动追踪和生物特征研究

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-08 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251376951

Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read, Bomin Paek

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Collegiate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study 大学生运动员和教练员心理弹性交际构成的个案研究

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251376367

Lillian B. Feder

{"title":"Collegiate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study","authors":"Lillian B. Feder","doi":"10.1177/21674795251376367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251376367","url":null,"abstract":"Resilience processes are communicative in nature and vital to the wellbeing and success of athletic personnel and organizations. However, the communicative components of resilience-building are largely ignored in sport scholarship and practice. This study seeks to bridge that gap by using the communication theory of resilience as a sensitizing concept to develop a thorough understanding of communicative resilience-building processes in athletics. Semi-structured in-depth interviews with members of a Division I college baseball team were analyzed using thematic co-occurrence analysis. Findings indicate that collegiate athletes and coaches experience resilience-building as a combination of mental toughness (i.e., persistence and discipline) and resourcefulness (i.e., social support, vulnerability, (self-)reflection, and positive self-talk). Findings also reveal three relationships between co-occurring themes. First, participants who focused on the process over the outcome of persistence developed greater (self-)awareness and found better solutions to the issues they faced. Second, providing social support to other network members motivated participants to regulate their own emotions and to remain disciplined amid adversity. Third, participants who communicated their vulnerability were empowered to seek out social support as a partial solution to disruptive events. These findings demonstrate the communicative and collective nature of resilience processes and inform suggestions for resilience-building in athletics.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Between Hype and Reality: The Promises and Pitfalls of Predicting Sports Media Technological Innovation 在炒作与现实之间：预测体育媒体技术创新的承诺与陷阱

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-03 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251377921

Andrew C. Billings

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A Reasoned Action Approach to Parent-Child Concussion Communication in Youth Sports 青少年体育运动中亲子脑震荡沟通的理性行动方法

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251375105

Daniel E. Hartman

{"title":"A Reasoned Action Approach to Parent-Child Concussion Communication in Youth Sports","authors":"Daniel E. Hartman","doi":"10.1177/21674795251375105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251375105","url":null,"abstract":"This study applied the reasoned action approach to examine psychosocial predictors of parent-child communication intentions about sport-related concussions (SRCs). While parents are central to youth concussion safety, little research has identified which belief-based mechanisms shape their intent to initiate SRC conversations. Using a cross-sectional survey of U.S. parents of youth athletes aged 8–12 ( N = 300), both main and interaction effects of experiential and instrumental attitudes, injunctive and descriptive norms, and perceived behavioral control (operationalized as capacity) were tested. Findings showed that experiential attitudes, injunctive norms, and capacity significantly predicted intention. Moderation analyses revealed that perceived behavioral control strengthened, and perceived norms attenuated, the attitude–intention relationship. These results suggest intention formation is not merely additive but shaped by the relationships between attitudinal, normative, and control-based beliefs. Theoretically, this study expands the reasoned approach by modeling moderation across all three intention pathways and addresses calls for more granular application of theory in sport communication. Practically, it identifies belief-based levers—emotional framing, normative messaging, and confidence-building—that can improve concussion education for parents during a critical developmental window. Findings contribute both to sport health messaging and to understanding how psychosocial beliefs shape behavior in emotionally sensitive, parent-driven safety contexts.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"60 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144927822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel 软媒体，硬边界：足球，媒体框架，以及战时以色列的民族紧张关系

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-08-30 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251375095

Chen Kertcher

{"title":"Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel","authors":"Chen Kertcher","doi":"10.1177/21674795251375095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251375095","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines how Hebrew-language sports media framed Jewish and Arab football clubs in Israel during the 2023–2024 football season, amid the ongoing Israel–Hamas war. Focusing on the ultra-nationalist Jewish club Beitar Jerusalem, the established Arab club Bnei Sakhnin, and the emerging Arab club Bnei Reineh, the analysis reveals distinct patterns shaped by framing theory (Entman, 1993) and peace journalism (Galtung, 2002). Despite comparable visibility, Arab clubs—particularly Bnei Sakhnin—were frequently portrayed with suspicion, disloyalty, or decontextualized neutrality, reflecting selective inclusion and exclusion. In contrast, Beitar was depicted as a patriotic symbol, reinforcing nationalist narratives consistent with war journalism. Peace-oriented frames were rare, decontextualized, and easily overshadowed by dominant ethnonational discourses. Even ostensibly neutral reporting stripped Arab players of sociopolitical context, reinforcing their symbolic marginality. The findings highlight the role of “soft” media in shaping public discourse and national identity, emphasizing that sports journalism is not immune to wartime ideological pressures. Rather than fostering inclusion, it often amplifies existing hierarchies—missing opportunities to support dialogue, empathy, and coexistence in a deeply divided society.","PeriodicalId":46882,"journal":{"name":"Communication & Sport","volume":"30 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144920955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Golden Girls, National Heroes and Resilient Champions: An Intersectional and Computational Analysis of Social Media Commentary During the 2024 Paralympics 黄金女孩、国家英雄和韧性冠军：对2024年残奥会期间社交媒体评论的交叉分析和计算分析

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Communication & Sport Pub Date : 2025-08-23 DOI: 10.1177/21674795251366968

Dinfin K. Mulupi, Shannon Scovel, Frankie Ho Chun Wong, Aman Misra

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