A media analysis of a sport celebrity: Understanding an informal “team cancer” role as a socio-cultural construction

Leading for gold: social identity leadership processes at the London 2012 Olympic Games

“…The current study builds on previous examinations of media data in sport (e.g., McGannon et al 2012, Cosh et al 2013 (Slater et al 2013). Thus, team values were outlined to inspire athletes'…”

“…We intended to collect all available data through daily monitoring of these two websites, together with checks on social media (i.e., twitter) and television to ensure media coverage of the leaders was not missed. The data collection process was informed by emerging sport and exercise psychology literature (e.g., McGannon et al 2012, Cosh et al 2013) that has outlined how studying media data can be crucial to further understand identities in various sport contexts. In particular, media data collection in the current study afforded the authors opportunity to capture new themes within specific contexts (i.e., an Olympic Games) that contribute to knowledge gained through insights not …”

“…The media data in the current study most closely aligns with Schinke et al (2012) by focusing on what leaders said during media presentations rather than how the media constructed leaders, for example, via newsprint articles as analysed by Cosh et al (2013) and McGannon et al (2012). Building on Schinke et al's (2012) exploration, the present study will incorporate speeches and team announcements delivered and blogs written by leaders as underused, yet fruitful data sources (Sparkes and Smith, 2014) that will extend sport and exercise psychology and social identity leadership literature.…”

“…To achieve this advancement, the 7 current study analysed media data from leaders at the London 2012 Olympic Games through a social identity lens. Emerging sport and exercise psychology literature has utilised media data to better understand athletes' identities in sporting contexts (e.g., McGannon et al 2012, Cosh et al 2013 . Bringing this contemporary enquiry that has focused on media data together it becomes clear that investigating media data can lead to different and advanced understandings of knowledge, and thus, provides the focus of the present analysis.…”

A meta-study of athletic identity research in sport psychology: Current status and future directions

“…Krane et al (2014) drew from feminist cultural studies and argued that gender permeated all aspects of girl athletes' experiences, and that they had to negotiate these potentially conflicting identities in their sport practices. Two studies positioned within cultural sport psychology examined the intersection of athlete and mother identities (McGannon, Curtin, et al, 2012) and team identity roles (McGannon, Hoffmann, et al, 2012). Using media data, these authors argued that media is powerful in shaping today's athletes' identities and the ways in which the public views them.…”