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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The fifth issue of Communication & Sport in 2026 (Vol. 14, No. 5, October 2026) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/14/5. This is a special issue with eight articles examining sport, media, and migration from multiple interconnected perspectives.

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The latest iteration of the "Gender in Televised Sport" report is available (for free!) on our website: doi.org/10.1177/2167... @cherylcooky.bsky.social & colleagues continue to track quality & quantity of news media coverage of women's and men's sport on 📺 and online 📱. Spoiler: It's still siloed.

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The fourth issue of Communication & Sport journal in 2026 (vol. 14, iss. 4, August 2026) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/14/4. This issue offers 22 articles on less visible aspects of high-performance sports, from concussion to data work, naturalization, cricket & more. Happy reading!

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

The latest issue of our journal is published at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/14/3. This issue focuses on #socialmedia and their usage, effects and other implications in a variety of national and cultural contexts. Happy reading!

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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

In Zhang and her co-author, Yiben Ma's, article for @commsportj.bsky.social they investigate the phenomenon of athletic naturalisation and the associated discussion about nationalism and identity within the context of an increasingly globalised yet ethically homogenised China.

Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We are seeking applicants to become our next Editor-in-Chief after @andrewcbillings.bsky.social lays down his red pen at the end of 2026. Read the Call for Applications here: journals.sagepub.com/page/coma/ca.... Applications close on June 30, 2026.

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“I Just Learn a Single Phrase:” Language Acquisition and Cultural Fusion in Professional Baseball By Patrick C. Gentile, Luke A. Skuratowicz and Zachary W. Arth doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Playing (& Smoking) by the Rules: Sport Media’s Racialized Coverage of Athlete Drug Use By Patrick Crowe and Vincent Peña doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Japanese National Basketball Association Fans and Social Media Acceptance: Exploring the Role of Brand Respect By Jeongbeom Hahm and Rei Yamashita doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Tweets, Triumphs, and Tensions: A Machine Learning Approach to Decoding Multi-Tier Thematic Framing of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Social Media By Chenglong Xu, Tyreal Yizhou Qian, Lei Yang and Dongfeng Liu doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“The Planet’s Champion” Daniel Bryan: How WWE Uses Sport, Neoliberalism and Colorblind Ideology in Professional Wrestling Narratives By Ever Josue Figueroa, Vincent Peña and Krishnan Vasudevan doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Constructing a New Framework for Sport and Development: Investigating the Media Portrayal of Village Basketball Association in China By Mingjiang Lu, Liwen Zhang and Zizhong Zhang doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Sports Identification in Situational Problem-Solving: A Framework for Understanding Fans’ Communicative Behaviors in Sports Crises By Mu He doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Displaced and Diminished: How the Placemaking Value of “Being there” Influences Play-By-Play Broadcasters’ Professional Identity By Brian A. Petrotta, Travis R. Bell and Lindsey Meeks doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

A Uses and Gratifications-Based Market Segmentation Approach to Football Fans’ Online Media Usage Motivation By Anina Gächter, Pascal Stegmann and Grazia Lang doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

“Drive to Survive” Drives New Fans to Formula 1? Studying Viewer Experiences of a Sports Documentary and Its Influence on the Sport’s Fandom By Dhwanil Shah and Anthony Lamont Williams doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Determinants of Online Live Esports Viewership With Advanced Data: The Case of League of Legends Champions Korea By Yoonji Ryu, Jaehyun Jeong, Wonseok Jang, Gyemin Lee and Hyunwoong Pyun doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Extended Reality in Esports: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Research Avenues - An Experts’ Perspective By Jakob J. Korbel, Jana E. Riewe, Sophia Elsholz and Rüdiger Zarnekow doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Diving in a Virtual Reality: Investigating Technology Acceptance By Sophia Elsholz, Alexander Frank, Jakob J. Korbel and Rüdiger Zarnekow doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Dynamic Information Processing of Signage Advertising Embedded in VR-Mediated Sports Through Real-Time Eye-Tracking and Biometric Measures By Bomin Paek, Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read and Hongwei Yang doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Bridging the Virtual and the Real: The Impact of Metaverse Sports Event Characteristics on Event Marketing Communication Effectiveness By Zeyang Li and Lei Jia doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Between Hype and Reality: The Promises and Pitfalls of Predicting Sports Media Technological Innovation By @andrewcbillings.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

This year’s final issue of Communication & Sport journal (vol. 13, iss. 6, December 2025) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/13/6. Published by @sagepub.com, it includes 15 articles by 41 authors on a range of perspectives on technological innovation in sport media:

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🆕📜🚨 "Politics on the Pitch – How Is Mediatized Football Consumption Related to the Exposure to and Recall of Political Incidents During the Euro 2024?" By Daniel Vogler & Manuel Arrigo Read *open access* OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🆕📜🚨 Refashioning Post-Cosmopolitan China: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Prada’s Use of China Women’s National Football Team Athletes as Brand Embodiments By Ling’ai Wang, Hanhan Xue, & Joshua I. Newman Read OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🆕📜🚨 "Mapping Live Sport Media Technologies: Developing a Taxonomy" By Sanghyeon Kim, Adam Karg, Tim Breitbarth, & Katherine Raw Read *open access* OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🆕📜🚨 “Red Card to Violence Against Women”: Sexist Discourses on Women’s Football in YouTube Comments From Türkiye 🇹🇷 By Yavuz Demir Read OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

🆕📜🚨 "Attentional and Evaluative Processing of Split-Screen Advertisements Embedded in Mediated Sports: An Eye-Tracking and Biometric Study" By Minkyo Lee, Glenna L. Read, & Bomin Paek Read OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

And a timely OnlineFirst article that is published Open Access: "Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel" By Chen Kertcher Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

Soft Media, Hard Borders: Football, Media Framing, and Ethnonational Tensions in Wartime Israel - Chen Kertcher, 2025

This study examines how Hebrew-language sports media framed Jewish and Arab football clubs in Israel during the 2023–2024 football season, amid the ongoing Isra...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🆕📜🚨 "A Reasoned Action Approach to Parent-Child Concussion Communication in Youth Sports" By Daniel E. Hartman Read OnlineFirst at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

🆕📜🚨 "Collegiate Athletes’ and Coaches’ Communicative Constitution of Resilience: A Case Study" By Lillian B. Feder @LillyFed Read it OnlineFirst here: doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This year’s fifth issue of Communication & Sport journal (vol. 13, iss. 5, October 2025) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/13/5. The highlight is definitely a nine-article exchange on the theory, method, and authorship in the first ten years of the journal prompted by Cummins & Hahn. 📜💥

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Open-access poststructuralist discourse analysis of the governance of disability and gender in Chinese print media: "Governing Paralympians: A Media Discourse Analysis of Disability and Gender in China" By Lanfei Wang, Bryan C. Clift, Bonnie Pang & Jessica Francombe-Webb ♿❄️🇨🇳 doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

This article will resonate with nostalgic fans of the times in sports and media that once were. "The View From the Boundary: How County Cricket is Covered Amid the Digital Mediatization of Sport," by ‪Richard Jones @rlwjones.bsky.social Read it OPEN ACCESS at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Athletes’ Participation in Communication With Coaches: Functions and Preconditions in Elite Sports Using the Example of Three Film Sessions" By Andreas Hoffmann Read it OPEN ACCESS at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

“It is an Incredibly Painstaking, Time-Taking Domain to Work in” Examining the Work-Life Tensions and Meaningful Experiences of Data Work in Elite Sport By Andrew Manley, Brad Millington and Shaun P. Williams Read it OPEN-ACCESS at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Henk Erik Meier, Mara Verena Konjer, Swantje Müller, and Michael Mutz examined how calls for the closure of the gender pay gap resonated in German media: "Getting the Pay Gap on the Board: Female Athletes’ Demands for ‘Equal Pay’ in German Media Narratives" Read OPEN-ACCESS @ doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

"Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis" By Wenrong Cui, Yan Bing Zhang, and Xiaoxia Li Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

Understanding Chinese Weibo Users’ Frames of the LGBTQ+ Athletes During the 2024 Olympic Games: A Content Analysis - Wenrong Cui, Yan Bing Zhang, Xiaoxia Li, 2025

Guided by framing theory (FT) and moral foundations theory (MFT), this study investigated Chinese Weibo users’ social media posts (N = 598) about LGBTQ + athlet...

Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Luke Winslow and Blair Browning offer an interesting alternative perspective on "sports tanking:" "Politics for Losers: The Rhetoric of Sports Tanking as a Practice of Liberal Citizenship" Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Women's athletes often experience online abuse. Amberlie Williams, Beth Fielding-Lloyd, James Newman, and Ruth Deller studied responses: "Sports Organisations’ Responses to Social Media Abuse Against Professional Sportswomen in UK Team Sports" Read open-access at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Katelen Cowger examined the construction of gender among selected athletes from the Global South and argues for the adoption of “storywork” as a decolonial method: "Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, Scholarship, and Systems" Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Communication and sport (journal & field-wise) pioneers Lawrence Wenner and Walter Gantz published a surveyed of male & female fans watching men's & women's basketball: "We’ve Come a Long Way Baby (Maybe): Male and Female Fans Watching Men’s and Women’s Basketball" Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Hot off the press: "Golden Girls, National Heroes and Resilient Champions: An Intersectional and Computational Analysis of Social Media Commentary During the 2024 Paralympics" By Dinfin K. Mulupi, Shannon Scovel, Frankie Ho Chun Wong, and Aman Misra Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

We've been away from this account for a while. However, Editor-in-Chief @andrewcbillings.bsky.social (and peer reviewers!) did not sleep, so we are pleased to update our followers with some new/recent publications.

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Richard Jones @rlwjones.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

You can read the full research paper at @commsportj.bsky.social >> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

“Can You Believe This Was Once a Football School?:” Social Media Fan Discourse Before, During, and After Nebraska’s Record-Setting Volleyball Game By Shannon Scovel & Kelli S. Boling Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

We have published OnlineFirst a couple of articles recently: “Let it Kick You Forward” and Health Promotion: Coach Kay as a Hero in Cancer Fundraising, by @klavelle.bsky.social Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

“Let it Kick You Forward” and Health Promotion: Coach Kay as a Hero in Cancer Fundraising - Katherine L. Lavelle, 2025

Health promotion sporting events have increased fundraising and promoting awareness for many conditions. While a variety of causes are connected to sports via C...

Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

This year’s fourth issue of Communication & Sport (vol. 13, iss. 4, August 2025) is accessible at journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/13/4. It focuses on youth and university sport, including but not limited to American (NCAA) college sports. #NIL #CrisisCom #Concussion Happy reading!

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Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Also, we published "Exclusion in the Name of Dissuasion: Framing Moral Panic, Disposable Gamers, and Esport Regulation in China" By Yiming Chen, Shushan Dai, Hanhan Xue, and Joshua I. Newman Read it at doi.org/10.1177/2167... 😱 👾 🇨🇳

Exclusion in the Name of Dissuasion: Framing Moral Panic, Disposable Gamers, and Esport Regulation in China - Yiming Chen, Shushan Dai, Hanhan Xue, Joshua I. Newman, 2025

In early 2021, “esport dissuasion” emerged as a popular, yet contested, phenomenon in Chinese online media. This service simulates professional esport training’...

Communication & Sport @commsportj.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We have 2️⃣ 🆕 📜 OnlineFirst on our website: "Connecting Through Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Social Media Involvement and Team Identification Among Sports Fans" By Soyon Michelle Choi, Natalie Brown-Devlin, and Eunjoo Jin Read it Open Access at doi.org/10.1177/2167...

Connecting Through Fear of Missing Out (FoMO): Social Media Involvement and Team Identification Among Sports Fans - Soyon Michelle Choi, Natalie Brown-Devlin, Eunjoo Jin, 2025

This study explores how FoMO fosters sports fan attachment and enhances team identification in the context of online sports fandom. Grounded in social capital t...

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