[Commlist] Call for Abstracts "Media, Sport, and Diversity"

Call for Abstracts "Media, Sport, and Diversity"
(Virtual Seminar of the ECREA Temporary Working Group „Communication and 
Sport")
hosted by Aarhus University, Denmark (the seminar will take place online 
via Zoom)
November 5-6, 2021
Deadline for submitting abstracts: 15 June 2021

Sport is an essential element of the culture around the world. As a 
growing social and economic phenomenon, it plays a key role in 
contemporary societies. This significance has become particularly 
obvious during the COVID-19 pandemic as measures prohibiting the 
performance of sports and on-site spectatorship have affected (and 
continue to affect) individual well-being as well as the function of 
sport in society including its health-related, educational, social, 
cultural, and recreational dimension.
The societal role of sport is historically and currently inextricably 
linked to mediated communication. Mediated sports increasingly form a 
constituent part of popular culture: Sport is distributed, consumed and 
even practiced via media. Hence, communication studies all over the 
world have witnessed a growing interest in mediated sport as an area of 
study and research. The virtual seminar of the ECREA Temporary Working 
Group “Communication and Sport” takes account of this significance and 
covers the nexus of mediated communication and sport in an inclusive way.
The seminar is dedicated to the theme of diversity – and this in two 
respects.
(1) First, it strives to reflect the diversity of European research on 
sports communication. By communication it understands mediated 
communication comprising phenomena ranging from publicly oriented mass 
media and social media to semi-public and personal communication 
efforts, e. g. via smartphone applications. Consequently, we invite 
submissions that address, but are not limited to, issues such as
•sports journalism,
•sports media content,
•strategic communication of sport-related issues,
•advertising in sports,
•mediatization of sports,
•sport and emerging technologies such as mobile media, e-sports, and 
virtual reality,
•patterns of media sports consumption,
•fan communication and mediated engagement with sport.
(2) Second, we especially invite submissions that address various 
aspects of equality and diversity in sports communication; e.g.
•diversity with regard to gender,
•diversity of sports disciplines and different types of sport such as 
high-performance sports, marginalized/minority sports, and leisure sports,
•sexual and race diversity in sport,
•disability sport,
•sport and social inclusion.
The TWG understands itself as interdisciplinary and wants to bring 
together scholars from all kinds of disciplines as well as practitioners 
that share the interest in the media-based communication of sport. 
Consequently, submissions may not only be rooted in communication 
studies, but also in the academic fields of sports politics, sports 
economy, sports management, sports technology, sports sociology, and 
sports practice itself.
In the seminar, we strive to include a diversity of theoretical and 
methodical approaches to sports communication and give voice to 
researchers from all parts of Europe.
Proposals for the conference should be submitted as abstracts via email 
to the chair of the TWG, Daniel Nölleke ((daniel.noelleke /at/ univie.ac.at) 
<mailto:(daniel.noelleke /at/ univie.ac.at)>). Abstracts should have between 
350 and 500 words and must be submitted in English language. Abstracts 
should be anonymized and have a separate title page including the 
contact details of the authors.
Please note, that it is expected that authors will submit only one 
abstract as first author.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is Tuesday, 15 June 2021.

Should you have any questions, please contact us at 
(daniel.noelleke /at/ univie.ac.at) <mailto:(daniel.noelleke /at/ univie.ac.at)>.


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