Introduction
Enhancing Our (Global) Understanding: Reflections on the Need for Reaching Beyond Boundaries
Marie Hardin and Andrew C. Billings
Research Articles
Disturbing the Balance? How Team Media Position Themselves in the Digital Communication Ecology of Sports
Daniel Nölleke and Gregory Perreault
The Effect of Livestreaming Esports Media on Viewer Satisfaction, Flow Experience, and Media Loyalty
Yihan Huang, Daehwan Kim, and Yong Jae Ko
Open Access
Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of its Parts? Aggregation of Sports Events as a Driver of Coverage of (the) European Championships on German TV News Shows Lars-Ole Wehden and Lena Maria Küpper
Mechanisms of Emotional Experiences of Online Spectators of E-Sports Events From the Perspective of Interactive Ritual Chain
Jing Zhang, Danning Zhang, and Guangquan Dai
Analyzing Discourses and the Communication of Sport: A Scoping Review and Suggestions for Future Endeavors
Ulrik Wagner and Katherine Sveinson
Towards Normalization of Women’s Football in Spanish Sports Journalism: Analysis of 2021 UEFA Women’s Champions League Final Broadcasts
Raúl Martínez-Corcuera, Xavier Ginesta, and Joan Frigola-Reig
Open Access
Sports Media Research in the Slovenian Context: Mapping Trends and Suggestions for the Future
Kaja Poteko
Modernity, Aesthetics, and Nation Re-branding in Olympics: A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of the Opening Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games
Yilei Wang, Dezheng (William) Feng, and Hua Wang
Open Access
The Framing of ‘Playing Through the Pain’ in the Media: An Investigation of Rafael Nadal During the 2022 French Open
Daniel Read and Lauren M. Burch
