[Commlist] Communication & Sport Vol. 14, No. 2, April 2026 published

The second issue of the Communication & Sport journal in 2026 (vol. 14, 
iss. 2, April 2026) is accessible at 
https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/14/2 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/coma/14/2>.

This issue is devoted to interrogations and extrapolations of gender 
from a variety of perspectives. In his editorial, Editor-in-Chief Andrew 
Billings notes that many claims about the lack of interest in watching 
or participating in women's sport often prove unfounded. Yet, progress 
regarding women in sport (and) media has proven difficult to document 
because countries differ in their positions and circumstances on the 
topic. This is surely a good reason to read this latest issue, which 
features contributions from authors based both in the Global North and 
Global South.

Following is this issue's Table of Contents:

EDITORIAL

Hegemony, Privilege, and Access: Why Gender Remains Near the Center of 
Communication and Sport Research
By Andrew C. Billings
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795261424546 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795261424546>

INVITED ARTICLE

We’ve Come a Long Way Baby (Maybe): Male and Female Fans Watching Men’s 
and Women’s Basketball
By Lawrence A. Wenner and Walter Gantz
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251368994 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251368994>

RESEARCH ARTICLES

“If Those Stats Make You Mad, Then You’ve Come to the Right Place”: 
Theorizing a Women’s Sports Media Counterpublic
By Monica Crawford
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241301308 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241301308>

Role Models or Inferior Participants? Chinese News Portrayals of Gender 
and Disability in the 2022 Winter Paralympic Games
By Yifan Wu
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241295293 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241295293>

Governing Paralympians: A Media Discourse Analysis of Disability and 
Gender in China (OPEN ACCESS!)
By Lanfei Wang, Bryan C. Clift, Bonnie Pang and Jessica Francombe-Webb
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251364564 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251364564>

Getting the Pay Gap on the Board: Female Athletes’ Demands for ‘Equal 
Pay’ in German Media Narratives (OPEN ACCESS!)
By Henk Erik Meier, Mara Verena Konjer, Swantje Müller and Michael Mutz
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251363427 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251363427>

Decolonial Storyworking and Gender “Misfits”: Transforming Selves, 
Scholarship, and Systems
By Katelen Cowger
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251363866 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251363866>

Motherhood in the Olympic Context: An Analysis of News Published on the 
Most Accessed Sports Websites in Brazil and Spain (OPEN ACCESS!)
By Caroline Patatt, Micaela Cabral and Carla Cerqueira
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251345054 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251345054>

Alternative Versus Mainstream Media: Representing of Women’s Sport in 
Iranian Sports News and Users’ Comments
By Mahdi Latififard and Michael Mirer
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251343267 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251343267>

‘I Would Pretend to be a Dude’: NBA 2K Gamers’ Motivations, Use of WNBA 
Features, and Experiences With Harassment
By Ali Forbes and Sada Reed
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251336663 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251336663>

Cheating or Fair Competition? A Structuration Analysis of Social Media 
Responses to Lia Thomas’ NCAA Swimming Championship
By Rich G. Johnson, Samer Al-khateeb, Kyran Cupido, Mohammed Madouh and 
Miles Romney
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251330304 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251330304>

Gender Essentialism and U.S. Attitudes Towards the Media Coverage of 
Women’s Sport (OPEN ACCESS!)
By Adam Gemar, Rachel Allison and Stacey Pope
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251327958 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251327958>

“We’ve … had to Make Ourselves more Visible Because … the Media hasn’t 
Done it for us”: Theorising a Visibility Bind in Relation to the Growing 
Prominence of Women’s Sport (open access!)
By Hannah Thompson-Radford and Michael Skey
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251324846 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251324846>

Signing Off: An Examination Into Female Journalists Leaving Legacy Media
By Timothy Mirabito, John Collett and Jack Talbott
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251321746 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795251321746>

Shifting Time Zones, Shifting Narratives: NBC’s Primetime Broadcast 
Portrayal of Men and Women Athletes During the 2020 Tokyo and 2022 
Beijing Olympic Games
By Lauren Reichart Smith and Paul J. MacArthur
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241303869 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241303869>

Danmu as Parasocial Audience Engagement: A Textual Analysis Based on 
Television Interviews With Women Athletes
By Zizhong Zhang
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241303424 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241303424>

‘Your Analysis Is as Useless as Your Ovaries’: Women Football Fans’ 
Experiences on Social Media (OPEN ACCESS!)
By Steph Doehler
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241292718 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241292718>

Analysing Credibility of Femvertising Campaigns: A Focus on Colombian 
Female Athletes
By Javier A. Sánchez-Torres, Carolina López Correa, Francisco-Javier 
Arroyo-Cañada, Ana Argila-Irurita and Fátima Vila-Márquez
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241278742 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241278742>

Examining Discussions Related to Transgender Athletes on Twitter: The 
Role of Negative Emotion on Message Engagement
By Christopher Calabrese, Xudong Yu and Yoo Jung Oh
https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241265969 
<https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241265969>
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Communication and Sport (C&S) is a cutting-edge, peer-reviewed bimonthly 
journal that publishes research to foster international scholarly 
understanding of the nexus of communication and sport. C&S publishes 
research and critical analysis from diverse disciplinary and theoretical 
perspectives to advance understanding of communication phenomena in the 
varied contexts through which sport touches individuals, society, and 
culture. It is indexed by the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and 
in the Scopus database. The journal does not require payment for 
manuscript submission, processing or publication. The journal’s website 
can be accessed here: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/COM 
<https://journals.sagepub.com/home/COM>.

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