This study compared the narratives of 3 broadsheet newspapers of selected female and male tennis players competing in the Wimbledon Championships. From Canada, The Globe and Mail; from Great Britain, The Times; and from the United States, The New York Times were examined. Dominant narratives were identified from 161 articles taken from 44 newspaper editions during the 16-day period coinciding with the Wimbledon Championships fortnight. Drawing on Connell’s (1987, 1993, 2005) theory of gender power relations, textual analysis was used to examine the gendered narratives and, where it was applicable, how the gendered narratives intersected with race, age, and nationality. The results revealed that although the gendered narratives were at times complex and contradictory, they were generally consistent with dominant cultural patriarchal ideology and served to reiterate and legitimize the gender order.
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Champions, a Celebrity Crossover, and a Capitulator: The Construction of Gender in Broadsheet Newspapers’ Narratives About Selected Competitors at Wimbledon
John Vincent and Jane Crossman
Contextualizing Replay: Remediation, Affective Economies, Ontological Authority, and the Facade of Certitude
Ray Gamache
training and specialization. Far less has been done to contextualize replay as constituted by and constitutive of sport media discourse, due in part to its recent deployment by sport leagues and organizations. That deployment, however, certainly supports the values underpinning scientificity, authority
