Unfolding the Twitter scene of the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final: social media networks and power dynamics

Yan, Grace; Watanabe, Nicholas M.; Shapiro, Stephen L.; Naraine, Michael L.; Hull, Kevin

doi:10.1080/16184742.2018.1517272

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“…Within the digital media ecosystem, social networks have acquired great social relevance [ 11 ], joining traditional socializing agents (family, school, peer groups and communication media) in information processes and identity construction [ 12 , 13 ]. Twitter has become one of the most used social networks as a news media by stakeholders [ 14 , 15 ] as well as by journalists [ 16 , 17 ], and of course by its users [ 18 ], being employed by very diverse audiences to get information on news events [ 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 ].…”

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Gender Differences in Sports News Coverage on Twitter

Sainz-de-Baranda

Adá-Lameiras

Blanco-Ruiz

2020

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Gender stereotypes influence boys’ and girls’ self-perception, with the differential treatment received by sports figures in the media being one of the main factors in the perpetuation of stereotypes about sports. The objective of this research is to analyze if the new communication channels, such as Twitter, maintain gender stereotypes when reporting sports news. For this purpose, the four most followed media in Spain were analyzed: (@ElPais_Deportes, @ABC_Deportes, @Marca and @MundoDeportivo) over a period of five months, from March to June 2016. Our sample was composed of 6544 tweets, with 96.19% about sportsmen compared to 3.81% that portrayed women. The sport with the most media coverage was football (72.11%), for men as well as for women, followed by basketball (6.63%). It is clear that despite the growing international triumphs of Spanish women athletes in recent years, the latter continue to be underrepresented in the media. Female athletes receive more media coverage according to the sport which they engage in (“gender-appropriate” sports), with the exception of football, and not in accordance with their accomplishments. Twitter remains at the service of traditional media replicating the same gender biases and even augmenting them.

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Gender Differences in Sports News Coverage on Twitter

Sainz-de-Baranda

Adá-Lameiras

Blanco-Ruiz

2020

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“…Much of the literature on digital tools and digitalization has focused on professional sports clubs and analysed the implementation and application of digital technologies in high performance sport. Hence, the use of digital technologies for opening up new target groups and marketing opportunities has been examined in some detail, including sports fans use of mobile apps and online platforms (Kang, 2015 ; McGillivray and McLaughlin, 2019 ; Qian et al, 2019 ), elite athletes use of social media platforms (Geurin-Eagleman and Burch, 2015 ; Chawansky, 2016 ), resistance to digitalization in elite sport (Trabal, 2008 ; Tjønndal, 2020 ), social media activities and corporate communication (Waters et al, 2010 ; Yan et al, 2018 ) as part of sports clubs' branding strategies (Watkins and Lewis, 2014 ; Bertschy et al, 2019 ), and online educational and administrative resources for sports organizations (Sellitto et al, 2016 ; Strachan et al, 2016 ). A notable exception to the literature on technology and digitalization in professional sports is Ehnold et al, 2020 study of voluntary sports clubs and their use of digital tools.…”

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#Quarantineworkout: The Use of Digital Tools and Online Training Among Boxers and Boxing Coaches During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tjønndal

2020

Front. Sports Act. Living

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The purpose of this article is to explore the use of online training strategies and digital tools amongst coaches and athletes in boxing clubs during the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shutdown of organized sport. A digital qualitative research strategy was applied to boxing clubs, boxers, and boxing coaches in Norway. A total of 46 official clubs, athletes, and coach pages on Facebook were followed from 12th March to 30th June 2020, resulting in a sample of 78 social media posts (texts, photos, and videos). A content analysis approach was used for the material. The results show that the use of digital tools amongst the studied Norwegian coaches and boxing clubs varied in frequency and form during the spring of 2020 (COVID-19 shutdown). For them, the most frequent use of digital instruments was to communicate internally and externally about the COVID-19 situation, national rules and guidelines. The material demonstrated that online training strategies varied between different constellations of three specific factors: (1) synchronized (live-streamed) online training and unsynchronized online training (at home training videos and programmes), (2) publicly published online training that was only accessible through digital registration, and (3) free online training and online training that was only available to paying members. For the athletes in the material, the most frequent content was social media posts for self-promotion purposes. Additionally, several of the athletes expressed that they struggled to cope with and manage the training at home during lockdown, and that they deeply missed training and competing as usual.

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“…This means the level of interest accrued by different accounts is uneven by nature. It therefore brings back the essential phenomenon that gatekeeping theory emphasizes—there is imbalance of power in terms of what kind of information is selected and what level of influence it can have on the public (Yan, Watanabe, Shapiro, Naraine, & Hull, 2018). In specific examinations, scholars pointed out that digital gatekeeping practices were complex processes where individual agency interacted with networks and algorithms in producing outcome (Thorson & Wells, 2015; Vos & Heinderyckx, 2015).…”

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“…The results delineated both centralized and decentralized patterns of gatekeeping in discussions on political candidates and events. In the context of sport, Yan et al (2018) disclosed how gatekeeping was performed through networked communications where elite sport organizations and enterprises had more advantages in setting agendas and accruing attention during sport events.…”

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“…As a result of curated flows, varied digital content can receive imbalanced attention from the public. In other words, instead of being exposed to all content in an equal manner, public attention is always driven to certain discourse and interest (Yan, Watanabe, Shapiro, Naraine, & Hull, 2018). The investigation of how users create curated flows in order to influence the public, as such, facilitates a new forefront of gatekeeping research in the epoch of social media (Thorson & Wells, 2015; Vos & Heinderyckx, 2015).…”

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Examining IRA Bots in the NFL Anthem Protest: Political Agendas and Practices of Digital Gatekeeping

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Pegoraro

Watanabe

2019

Communication & Sport

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With the understanding that the mass-participated mechanism of social media has led to an evolved lens of gatekeeping, this study incorporates the framework of digital gatekeeping to examine activities of Internet Research Agency (IRA) bots in the Twitter sphere of the National Football League anthem protest. To do so, the investigation employed data of IRA bots released from Clemson University. We conducted analysis by approaching bots’ gatekeeping activities from three perspectives: the overall behavioral patterns, the discourses and underpinning ideologies, and communicative tactics to sustain attention on Twitter. The results revealed that the majority of tweets came from the right trolls and left trolls. Meanwhile, the activity level of the bots displayed high sensitivity to emergent political events. Importantly, the two types of bots orchestrated a gatekeeping agenda that propelled antagonistic, hyperpartisan politics. The right-wing trolls’ tweets, in particular, propagated pro-White, malicious propaganda infiltrated with fake news. The results yield meaningful implications for digital gatekeeping, social media’s complex roles in knowledge production related to athlete protest, and sport’s engagement in broader political struggles in today’s mediated culture.

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Unfolding the Twitter scene of the 2017 UEFA Champions League Final: social media networks and power dynamics

Cited by 57 publications

References 46 publications

Gender Differences in Sports News Coverage on Twitter

Gender Differences in Sports News Coverage on Twitter

#Quarantineworkout: The Use of Digital Tools and Online Training Among Boxers and Boxing Coaches During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Examining IRA Bots in the NFL Anthem Protest: Political Agendas and Practices of Digital Gatekeeping

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