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1st Edition

Sport, Media and Discrimination

Edited By Daniel Kilvington, John Price, Jasmin Seijbel, Jacco van Sterkenburg Copyright 2026
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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Sport, Media and Discrimination  provides critical, inter-disciplinary and international perspectives on how sports media constructs and reinforces discrimination in contemporary societies. The book argues that the importance of sport within modern culture means sports media has a powerful role to play in circulating, and combatting, potentially harmful ideas.  Furthermore, the... Read more

0 Introduction

Daniel Kilvington, John Price, Jasmin Seijbel and Jacco van Sterkenburg

 

Part I: Diversity and the Sports Media Industry

 

1   The Gender Imbalance in Australian Sports Media

Peter English and Jessie Wilkie

2          How Sports Media Undermines Women’s Potential in an Age of Empowerment: A Field of Contradictions

Erin Whiteside

3          Activism or Journalism? An Auto-Ethnography of Brazilian Nedia in Loco Coverage of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup

Júlia Belas Trindade

 

 

Part II: Sports Media Representations and Receptions

 

4          Deriving Meaning from Spoken and Unspoken Frames in Sports Media:  What Content Analysis Tells Us About Diversity

Andrew C. Billings and Jaymes Van Gyn

 

5  Media Coverage of the Growth of Women’s Sport: Disentangling Discursive Threads

Toni Bruce

6            How Racism is Expressed, Reproduced, and Challenged in Online Dutch Football Forums

Lana Tiemessen and Jacco van Sterkenburg

 

Part III: Sport, Social Media and Online Harms

 

7          Under Siege: Hegemonic Masculinity and Online Harassment in Sports Journalism

Yavuz Demir

8          Online Abuse in Sport: Legal Implications

Madhav Ahuja, Dannielle Jones and Seema Patel

9          Sports Journalists and Online Harms: Effective Protection Practices and Policies

Daniel Kilvington, John Price and Rebecca Whittington

 

Part IV: Esports and Discrimination

 

10        Gender Equality in Esports Organizations 

Usva Friman

11        Gender Dynamics in Sports Video Games: Levelling the Playing Field

Johnathan S Anderson

12        Social Inclusion and Exclusion in Esports Live Events: Insights From the 2024 Virtual Cycling World Championship

Anne Tjønndal, Thibault Fouquaert & Annick Willem

Biography

Daniel Kilvington, Professor of Media and Culture, Leeds Beckett University, UK.

John Price, Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland, UK.

Jasmin Seijbel, PhD candidate and lecturer at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Jacco van Sterkenburg, Endowed Professor 'Race', Inclusion and Communication at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

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