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This year’s final issue of Communication & Sport journal (vol. 13, iss. 6, December 2025) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/13/6. Published by @sagepub.com, it includes 15 articles by 41 authors on a range of perspectives on technological innovation in sport media:
Communication & Sport - Volume 13, Number 6
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November 25, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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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?"
By Daniel Vogler & Manuel Arrigo
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September 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Refashioning Post-Cosmopolitan China: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prada’s Use of China Women’s National Football Team Athletes as Brand Embodiments
By Ling’ai Wang, Hanhan Xue, & Joshua I. Newman
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September 29, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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"Mapping Live Sport Media Technologies: Developing a Taxonomy"
By Sanghyeon Kim, Adam Karg, Tim Breitbarth, & Katherine Raw
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September 29, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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“Red Card to Violence Against Women”: Sexist Discourses on Women’s Football in YouTube Comments From Türkiye 🇹🇷
By Yavuz Demir
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September 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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"Attentional and Evaluative Processing of Split-Screen Advertisements Embedded in Mediated Sports: An Eye-Tracking and Biometric Study"
By Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read, & Bomin Paek
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September 29, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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And a timely OnlineFirst article that is published Open Access:
"Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel"
By Chen Kertcher
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Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel - Chen Kertcher, 2025
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 Isra...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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"A Reasoned Action Approach to Parent-Child Concussion Communication in Youth Sports"
By Daniel E. Hartman
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September 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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"Collegiate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study"
By Lillian B. Feder @LillyFed
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September 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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This year’s fifth issue of Communication & Sport journal (vol. 13, iss. 5, October 2025) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/13/5.
The highlight is definitely a nine-article exchange on the theory, method, and authorship in the first ten years of the journal prompted by Cummins & Hahn. 📜💥
Communication & Sport - Volume 13, Number 5
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September 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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Open-access poststructuralist discourse analysis of the governance of disability and gender in Chinese print media:
"Governing Paralympians: A Media Discourse Analysis of Disability and Gender in China"
By Lanfei Wang, Bryan C. Clift, Bonnie Pang & Jessica Francombe-Webb
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August 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This article will resonate with nostalgic fans of the times in sports and media that once were.
"The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport," by ‪Richard Jones @rlwjones.bsky.social
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August 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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"Athletes’ Participation in Communication With Coaches: Functions and Preconditions in Elite Sports Using the Example of Three Film Sessions"
By Andreas Hoffmann
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August 26, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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“It is an Incredibly Painstaking, Time-Taking Domain to Work in”
Examining the Work-Life Tensions and Meaningful Experiences of Data Work in Elite Sport
By Andrew Manley, Brad Millington and Shaun P. Williams
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August 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Henk Erik Meier, Mara Verena Konjer, Swantje Müller, and Michael Mutz examined how calls for the closure of the gender pay gap resonated in German media:
"Getting the Pay Gap on the Board: Female Athletes’ Demands for ‘Equal Pay’ in German Media Narratives"
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August 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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"Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis"
By Wenrong Cui, Yan Bing Zhang, and Xiaoxia Li
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Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis - Wenrong Cui, Yan Bing Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, 2025
Guided by framing theory (FT) and moral foundations theory (MFT), this study investigated Chinese Weibo users’ social media posts (N = 598) about LGBTQ + athlet...
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August 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Luke Winslow and Blair Browning offer an interesting alternative perspective on "sports tanking:"
"Politics for Losers: The Rhetoric of Sports Tanking as a Practice of Liberal Citizenship"
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August 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Women's athletes often experience online abuse.
Amberlie Williams, Beth Fielding-Lloyd, James Newman, and Ruth Deller studied responses:
"Sports Organisations’ Responses to Social Media Abuse Against Professional Sportswomen in UK Team Sports"
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August 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Katelen Cowger examined the construction of gender among selected athletes from the Global South and argues for the adoption of “storywork” as a decolonial method:
"Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, Scholarship, and Systems"
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August 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Communication and sport (journal & field-wise) pioneers Lawrence Wenner and Walter Gantz published a surveyed of male & female fans watching men's & women's basketball:
"We’ve Come a Long Way Baby (Maybe): Male and Female Fans Watching Men’s and Women’s Basketball"
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August 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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We've been away from this account for a while.
However, Editor-in-Chief @andrewcbillings.bsky.social (and peer reviewers!) did not sleep, so we are pleased to update our followers with some new/recent publications.
August 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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August 12, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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We have published OnlineFirst a couple of articles recently:

“Let it Kick You Forward” and Health Promotion: Coach Kay as a Hero in Cancer Fundraising, by @klavelle.bsky.social
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“Let it Kick You Forward” and Health Promotion: Coach Kay as a Hero in Cancer Fundraising - Katherine L. Lavelle, 2025
Health promotion sporting events have increased fundraising and promoting awareness for many conditions. While a variety of causes are connected to sports via C...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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This year’s fourth issue of Communication & Sport (vol. 13, iss. 4, August 2025) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/13/4.
It focuses on youth and university sport, including but not limited to American (NCAA) college sports. #NIL #CrisisCom #Concussion
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June 17, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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We have 2️⃣ 🆕 📜 OnlineFirst on our website:
"Connecting Through Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Social Media Involvement and Team Identification Among Sports Fans"
By Soyon Michelle Choi, Natalie Brown-Devlin, and Eunjoo Jin
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Connecting Through Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Social Media Involvement and Team Identification Among Sports Fans - Soyon Michelle Choi, Natalie Brown-Devlin, Eunjoo Jin, 2025
This study explores how FoMO fosters sports fan attachment and enhances team identification in the context of online sports fandom. Grounded in social capital t...
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June 6, 2025 at 7:14 AM