Tag: Jörg-Uwe Nieland
Women’s football is gaining ground, but it’s an uphill battle
Molly Yanity and Danielle Sarver Coombs’ edited collection Media, Communication and the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup (Routledge) takes a close look at the themes of media and communication in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. For our reviewer, sport event scholar Christian Tolstrup Jensen, the anthology’s value lies in the plurality of cases, the theories, and the diverse sources – in addition to being an analysis of a particular World Cup, a source for comparison with previous and future World Cups.
The impact of COVID-19 on the sports industry
Paul M. Pedersen’s edited collection Research Handbook on Sport and COVID-19 (Edward Elgar) examines sport-related research and analysis pertaining to how the sport industry has been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic and discusses how the sport industry and its stakeholders might move forward in post-pandemic times. Our reviewer is Leonardo Colares Castro, and he deals with this 462 pages, 34 chapters and 92 authors volume in the only way possible – taking a comprehensive view, finding the many advantages and making note of a few shortcomings.
Communication & Sport, Vol. 10, 2022, No. 5 | Sport and Mediatization: Sports Events and Cultures Across the World
C&S is a cutting-edge peer-reviewed quarterly that publishes research to foster international scholarly understanding of the nexus of communication and sport that engages a broad intellectual community. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Mediatization and Doping: Investigating the Interplay in News Framing of Rider/Doping Suspicion During the Tour de France by Leah Stanley.
