Concussion in Sport: Public, Professional and Critical Sociologies

Malcolm, Dominic

doi:10.1123/ssj.2017-0113

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“…The media framing of these issues often utilises medical doctors as sources for stories, as was found by Barnett and Lee (2019) in their examination of post-traumatic stress disorder, who considered these to be "official" sources. The "medicalization" of such social issues has been critiqued (Malcolm, 2018) as it can control the flow of debate around a topic and may lessen audience sensitivity towards it. However, Van den Bulck (2017) examined celebrity health narratives and, amongst other themes, identified that media stories often provided limited and even sceptical medical elaboration.…”

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Duty of Karius: Media Framing of Concussion Following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final

Parry

Humphries

et al. 2020

Communication & Sport

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Concussion is a growing issue within sport, including within soccer. Despite the developing medical understanding of concussion, there is still an array of sociocultural discourses and misconceptions around it. In the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final, Liverpool Football Club goalkeeper Loris Karius suffered a head collision in the 48th minute. Postmatch, he was subsequently diagnosed as being concussed. As a result of his concussion, Karius’ performance was arguably impeded, with suggestions that this may have resulted in him making some key errors in the game. Through an analysis of media framing in 52 news articles in the days following the incident, four dominant frames were identified: deflection away from concussion, misunderstanding concussion, education on concussion, and recommendations. Frames that focussed on the lack of awareness and preventative measures that are present in soccer served to highlight the lack of significance afforded to concussion at this particular point in time. In particular, we highlight differences in concussion discourses between those working inside and outside the soccer industry. Overall, these findings contribute to the growing body of sociological work examining concussion in sport.

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confidence: 99%

Duty of Karius: Media Framing of Concussion Following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final

Parry

Humphries

et al. 2020

Communication & Sport

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“…An array of “real” world problems may accelerate the futuristic shift to tech-sport and fan-as-immersed-e-participant . Current concerns around the costs and risks associated with sport, notably around concussions and injuries (Malcolm, 2018), may be reduced and replaced by sports operating in a virtual domain. Moreover, the “placelessness” of virtual sport may assuage ever-present threats of terrorism (Giulianotti and Klauser, 2012), environmental sustainability concerns and dubious “greenwashing” practices (Miller, 2017).…”

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Fans as e-participants? Utopia/dystopia visions for the future of digital sport fandom

Sturm

2020

Convergence

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Media technologies and digital practices are reshaping and redefining the future of sport fandom. This article points to some of the utopian and dystopic transformations for fandom presented by (post)television, digital/social media and the anticipated virtual technologies of the future. Specifically, three distinct phases of fan participation are charted around existing and futuristic visions of technology-as-sport. First are the current televisual technologies that attempt to engage and retain traditionally “passive” viewers as spectators through pseudo-participatory perspectives that will carry over to new screens and technologies. Second, the assumed interactive participation afforded by social and digital media is considered, positing the future amplification of connectivity, personalisation and networking across digital fan communities, albeit undercut by further impositions of corporatisation and datafication through illusory forms of “interactivity”. Finally, the fusion, intensification and continual evolution of technology-as-sport is explored, asserting that forms of immersive participation will be significant for future virtual technologies and may ultimately re-position fans as e-participants in their own media-tech sport spectacles. Collectively, it is anticipated that the creation of new virtual worlds, spaces and experiences will amplify and operationalise forms of immersive participation around augmented spectatorship, virtual athletic replication and potentially constitute the sport itself. Indeed, a new model of the fan-as-immersed-e-participant is advanced as such futuristic virtual sporting realms may not only integrate fans into the spectacle but also project them into the event as participant and as the spectacle.

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“…At this point, doctors' recommendations were loosely referred to and sometimes followed. Further research is required to fully unpack this process; I expect, in so doing, that more detail will be added to the existing evidence of the exclusion of 'formal' medical knowledge from sporting spaces (Channon et al, 2019;Liston et al, 2016;Malcolm, 2018Malcolm, , 2019.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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‘The fog soon clears’: Bodily negotiations, embodied understandings, competent body action and ‘brain injuries’ in boxing

Matthews

2020

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Boxing is ‘all about bodies’; beautiful bodies, broken bodies and, sometimes, brain-damaged bodies. And while a lot of research has explored the physiological side of ‘punch drunk’ syndrome, far less work has attempted to consider how boxers experience brain injuries. Perhaps surprisingly, considering the sports historical and symbolic ties to concussion and degenerative brain diseases, contemporary socio-cultural explorations of the sport tend to be largely devoid of theoretically nuanced discussions of such phenomena. Within this paper, as a means of partly addressing this issue, I examine the ‘bodily negotiations’ that were part of personal understandings of ‘brain injuries’. By considering the manner that such embodied knowhow is shaped by risky notions about the body, I demonstrate how culturally specific competent bodily actions are developed. Such an analysis provides insights into the ways that boxers might symbolically neutralise, pragmatically manage or ‘fight through’ what they considered to be relatively ‘run of the mill’ neurological disruption. This helps to demonstrate how their embodied engagement provides the basis by which ‘outsider’ knowledge, including that provided by medical personnel, might be largely excluded and otherwise diminished.

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Concussion in Sport: Public, Professional and Critical Sociologies

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

Duty of Karius: Media Framing of Concussion Following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final

Duty of Karius: Media Framing of Concussion Following the 2018 UEFA Champions League Final

Fans as e-participants? Utopia/dystopia visions for the future of digital sport fandom

‘The fog soon clears’: Bodily negotiations, embodied understandings, competent body action and ‘brain injuries’ in boxing

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