Gender Differences in Sports News Coverage on Twitter

Sainz-de-Baranda, Clara; Adá-Lameiras, Alba; Blanco-Ruiz, Marian

doi:10.3390/ijerph17145199

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“…Social and political activism happens on social media to initiate grass-root mobiliza-tion, providing interesting opportunities for social scientists (Tinati, et al, 2014). Studies have been conducted on, e.g., racism in elections (Stephens-Davidowitz, 2014), flow of information in protests (Tinati et al, 2014), gender differences in sports coverage (Sainz-de-Baranda et al, 2020) or rape threats (Hardaker & McGlashan, 2016).…”

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Gender differences in language about Feminism: Results from Sentiment Analysis and Use of Emojis on Twitter

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2021

ECAH Official Conference Proceedings

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Social networks, such as Twitter with its around 192 million active users per day, are increasingly changing the way how people access information, communicate with each other, express opinions and discuss a wide range of topics. An example of a rather controversial topic is feminism. This study sheds light on the used language and emojis when discussing feminism on Twitter. Emojis are graphic symbols, representing inter alia facial expressions, but also objects, food or drinks, animals, or emotions, and feelings. For the analysis, 195,843 evaluable tweets were collected between the end of February until the beginning of March 2021, covering the International Women's Day and part of Women's History Month. A quantitative approach is employed to evaluate the sentiment value of tweets on a lexical level. Sentiment analysis enables the investigation of public emotions about events, opinions, persons etc. Together with the sentiment value of the emojis, it provides the basis to analyze the identified words and topics of the discussions on Twitter. Additionally, as Twitter does not provide the gender of a user, the gender is tried to be derived from unstructured data such as the screen or username as well as the description. Results indicate that female users send in average tweets with a more positive tone than male users, while negative tweets are not significantly different between genders. Emojis are only used in a part of all tweets. The emojis used are correlated to the sentiment value of the tweet.

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Gender differences in language about Feminism: Results from Sentiment Analysis and Use of Emojis on Twitter

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2021

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“…Social and political activism happens on social media to initiate grass-root mobiliza-tion, providing interesting opportunities for social scientists (Tinati, et al, 2014). Studies have been conducted on, e.g., racism in elections (Stephens-Davidowitz, 2014), flow of information in protests (Tinati et al, 2014), gender differences in sports coverage (Sainz- de-Baranda et al, 2020) or rape threats (Hardaker & McGlashan, 2016).…”

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The European Conference on Arts & Humanities 2021: Official Conference Proceedings

2021

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In Saudi Arabia, significant investments in fitness field reinforcements were started since the announcement of the 2030 vision. Instagram is a popular marketing platform for fitness professionals. This study investigates the challenges Saudi female fitness trainers face when using Instagram as a personal branding tool. A purposive, typical sample of eleven Saudi female fitness trainers participated in two focus groups. The results indicated that factors such as media coverage, branding professionals and branding awareness were needed to enhance the personal branding strategies among the trainers. Social shyness was found as a personal barrier, which was associated with society's expectations' of females' social roles. There was also a relation between the type of sport and the choices to start the personal branding journey. Moreover, religious values, family traditions, and conservatism were identified as the main challenges for Saudi female fitness trainers.

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“…Previous research on the reasons for the differences in the sports participation of adolescent males and females has yielded ambiguous and uncertain conclusions, since the results are diverse and include personal, family, environmental and motivational factors [7,8]. However, it should be noted that the gender stereotypes of adolescents seem to be one of the most influential factors on the practice of sports [9], and that the environment closest to the adolescents, consisting of fathers, mothers, families, siblings or friends [10,11] and the media, appear to be related to gender stereotypes [12,13].…”

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“…Regarding media coverage, it is scarce in women's sport compared to men's sport, regardless of the sport and the success achieved [12,13], which places the media as an element to take into account in the transmission of gender stereotypes [25][26][27] because they favor the association of sport practice and gender [28]. However, in recent years the appearances of female sports have been gaining in importance [27,29], which could increase the likelihood that female adolescents will watch them and increase their sport practice.…”

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Influence of Gender Stereotypes, Type of Sport Watched and Close Environment on Adolescent Sport Practice According to Gender

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The practice of sport by adolescents is influenced by multiple factors, which could create differences in sports participation according to gender. The objectives of this study were to determine which types of sports were most practiced by adolescent males and females; and to analyze the relationship of gender stereotypes, the type of sport observed and the personal environment, to the type of sport practiced, depending on the adolescent’s gender. To this end, a total of 632 adolescents completed the questionnaire “Lifestyle in Sport with a Gender Perspective”. The results showed significant differences according to gender in the type of sport practiced (p < 0.05), in the membership to sports clubs (p < 0.001), and in the participation in competitions (p < 0.001). It was found that family (p < 0.005) and friends (p < 0.05) were the social agents that most influenced the choice of the type of sport practiced, and that the type of sport watched live (p < 0.005), and in the media (p < 0.001), was related to gender and the type of sport practiced. In contrast, the gender stereotypes of the adolescents themselves were not related to the practice of sports. In conclusion, the environment closest to the adolescents was related to the type of sport practiced by those adolescents.

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Gender Differences in Sports News Coverage on Twitter

Cited by 19 publications

References 42 publications

Gender differences in language about Feminism: Results from Sentiment Analysis and Use of Emojis on Twitter

Gender differences in language about Feminism: Results from Sentiment Analysis and Use of Emojis on Twitter

The European Conference on Arts & Humanities 2021: Official Conference Proceedings

Influence of Gender Stereotypes, Type of Sport Watched and Close Environment on Adolescent Sport Practice According to Gender

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