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Sports Journalists and Online Harms: Effective Protection Practices and Policies
No full textThis chapter will critically investigate the worrying trend of online harms encountered by contemporary sports journalists in the United Kingdom. Rather than using abuse, hate or violence, this work utilises harms which allows us to take a broader approach to how the internet impacts upon sports journalists’ practices and behaviours both in personal and professional ways. It draws on previous literature which illustrates that women journalists in particular face a disproportionate amount of online harms which includes abuse, but also harassment and sexual advances. It considers a range of triggers that exacerbate online harms such as the type of news story in question or the time in which the story is released. The chapter will explore and critique a range of practices and policies enforced by sports media organisations designed to effectively support and protect the workforce against online harms. It will conclude by offering a series of recommendations aimed at sports media organisations to most effectively safeguard sports journalists from current and future online harms
Sport, Media and Discrimination: Introduction
No full textSport can be a great leveller, bringing people of different creeds, classes and cultures together over the love of a game or a club. It can also drive and keep people apart, creating perpetual winners and losers in the process. The media plays a big, and ever bigger, role in how these forces operate. Sport media is characterised by its massive popularity as well as by the diversity of bodies it represents based on, for example, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, (dis)ability and social class. The combination of its mass appeal and its portrayal of diverse bodies makes sports media a powerful site for the (re)production of meaning-making of diversity in society (Van Sterkenburg, 2025). While some scholars have pointed out how this meaning-making process can sometimes lead to an appreciation of diversity and an increase in tolerance for people who are perceived as different from oneself, other scholars have shown how this is either conditional (Van Sterkenburg, Peeters & Van Amsterdam, 2019) or can result in social divides and exclusions (Bradbury and Conricode, 2025; Kavanagh et al., 2019; Kilvington, 2016; Kilvington et al., 2024) based on implicit and explicit mechanisms of discrimination. Trying to understand how all this works, why it matters, and how it could be improved, is in essence what this book is about
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Sport and Discrimination
No full textDespite campaigns to educate and increase awareness, discrimination continues to be a deep-rooted problem in sport. This book provides an international, interdisciplinary and critical discussion of various forms of discrimination in sport today, with contributions from world-leading aca- demics and high-profile campaigners.
Divided into five sections, the book explores racism, sexism, homo- phobia, disability and the role of media in both perpetuating and tackling discrimination across a variety of sports and sporting events around the world. Drawing on examples from football, rugby, cricket, tennis, climb- ing, the Olympics and the Paralympics, it offers a critical review of current debates and discusses the latest empirical research on the changing nature of discrimination in sport. Taking into account the experiences of athletes and coaches across all performance levels, it presents recommendations for further action and directions for future research.
A timely and challenging study, Sport and Discrimination is essential reading for all students and scholars of sports studies with an interest in the sociology of sport and the relationship between sport, society and the media
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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