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[Commlist] Call for Abstracts "Media, Sport, and Diversity"
Wed May 12 12:26:17 GMT 2021
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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