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Content Analysis as a Research Method: A Content Analysis of Content Analyses in Sport Communication

Markus Schäfer and Catharina Vögele

happening in the field and on the other hand, it can inspire future research and new generations of researchers. In principle, content analyses in sport communication can follow either a quantitative or a qualitative research logic and focus, for example, on different research topics, communication material

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“It Makes Me Feel Like I Am an Important Part of This Team”: An Exploratory Study of Coach Confirmation

Gregory A. Cranmer and Maria Brann

Coaches are recognized as important sources of athlete experiences (e.g., learning, sport satisfaction, relationships with teammates), but little attention has been devoted to how coaches foster positive self-perceptions. The current exploratory study proposes that coaches are likely sources of confirmation (i.e., feeling of recognition, endorsement, and acknowledgment). This assumption was substantiated via 12 interviews with Division I volleyball players during the 2013 season as 6 confirming acts and messages used by coaches were identified (i.e., individualized communication, personal relationships, encouragement, demands for improvement, recognition, and demonstration of investment). In addition, 4 phenomena that influence confirmation were identified (i.e., adversity, knowledge of other coaches, athletes’ roles on the team, and timing). These results extend confirmation to the sport context, provide sport communication scholars with a novel framework to understand athlete–coach communication, and illustrate that various phenomena (including starting status) can influence confirming communication between athletes and coaches.

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A Qualitative Analysis of Playing Through Pain and Injury: Using the Theory of Planned Behavior to Understand the Communicated Sport Ethic Among Former Youth Athletes

Johnny Capra and Sara LaBelle

less likely to report concussions and other injuries with increased injury accumulation . Journal of Neurotrauma, 36 ( 13 ), 2065 – 2072 . https://doi.org/10.1089/neu.2018.6161 10.1089/neu.2018.6161 Braun , V. , & Clarke , V. ( 2006 ). Using thematic analysis in psychology . Qualitative

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This Is How We Do It: A Qualitative Approach to National Sport Organizations’ Social-Media Implementation

Michael L. Naraine and Milena M. Parent

This study’s purpose was to uncover national sport organizations’ (NSOs) perceptions of social media to understand how social media are situated and implemented. Specifically, the study sought to understand the perceived utility of social media, the rationale for the content produced and disseminated, and the factors affecting social-media implementation. Through semistructured interviews with Canadian NSOs, results were grouped into 3 themes: the value of social media (i.e., benefits, potential, and credibility), social-media use (i.e., content, types of social-media platforms, and rationale/motivations), and the challenges associated with social media (i.e., capacity, language issues, stakeholders engagement or lack thereof, and resistance). NSOs implement social media solely for business-to-consumer purposes. Social media act as a “double-edged sword”: NSOs believe that a good social-media presence requires sufficient resources but remain unconvinced of the “true” strategic value of social media.

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One World, One Dream: A Qualitative Comparison of the Newspaper Coverage of the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Ik Young Chang, Jane Crossman, Jane Taylor, and Diane Walker

This study compared and explored the textual coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (OG) and Paralympic Games (PG) by the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail. The authors found 8 high-order themes and 25 low-order themes for the OG. The high-order themes were predicting game results, reporting game results, athleticism, politics, ethical issues, nationalism, the media, and the economy. For the PG, there were 4 high-order themes, and each high-order theme had 1 low-order theme. The high-order themes were reporting game results, athleticism, ethical issues, and equality between Paralympians and Olympians. Comparisons between OG and PG coverage are discussed and recommendations for future research provided.

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Integrated Impression Management in Athletics: A Qualitative Study of How NCAA Division I Athletics Directors Understand Public Relations

Angela N. Pratt

Intercollegiate athletics directors (ADs) in the United States are high-profile representatives of their departments and universities. Their publics include media, sponsors, donors, fans, faculty, students, and government officials. However, few studies have explored ADs from a public relations perspective, especially regarding their understandings of public relations. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to learn how ADs understand public relations in the context of their athletics departments. A phenomenological approach was used to pursue this purpose. In-depth interviews were conducted with 12 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I ADs. Their transcripts were analyzed using comparative-analysis procedures. The findings show that the participants understand public relations as integrated impression management: a combination of image, message, and action/interaction. Integrated impression management ties into ideas from Goffman (1959), as well as systems theories of public relations. However, the results also imply that ADs do not necessarily separate public relations from other disciplines such as marketing.

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Media Portrayals of Athlete-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: An Examination of the Social Ecological Model, Race, and Communication Perceptions

Jennifer A. Scarduzio, Christina S. Walker, Nicky Lewis, and Anthony M. Limperos

. For practitioners, the findings illustrate that journalists need to employ thematic framing—presenting all of the factors that occur surrounding the violence, rather than just describing the incident in an episodic manner. Theoretically, we used the social ecological model (SEM) to qualitatively

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Brand Management and Social Media

Beth A. Cianfrone

and social media by Walsh et al. ( 2013 ) was among the few that focused on social from a brand perspective. Further, the reviews stated that the early types of research methodologies in social media included quantitative approaches that were reliant on survey questionnaires and qualitative

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“You Had One Job!” A Case Study of Maladaptive Parasocial Interaction and Athlete Maltreatment in Virtual Spaces

Jimmy Sanderson, Matthew Zimmerman, Sarah Stokowski, and Alison Fridley

-driven, deductive approach for qualitative analysis ( Cho & Lee, 2014 ), in which an a priori template of codes was established. This method allows researchers to analyze both latent and manifest meaning in data. Each tweet served as the unit of analysis. In accordance with deductive procedures ( Cho & Lee, 2014

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Impact of Social Media on Intention to Purchase Pay-Per-View and Event Attendance: The Case of the Ultimate Fighting Championship

Andrew Kim, Minhong Kim, Steven Salaga, and James J. Zhang

scales directly to our study setting. Therefore, using uses and gratifications theory (UGT) and a mixed-methods design, this study qualitatively explores the themes of UFC fans’ social media motivations and then develops and assesses the measurement properties of the Scale of Social Media Motivation