Framing the Paralympic Games : a mixed-methods analysis of Spanish media coverage of the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Paralympic Games

Autor: Inmaculada Rius, Geoffery Z. Kohe, Josep Solves, Athanasios Pappous
Přispěvatelé: UCH. Departamento de Comunicación e Información Periodística, Producción Científica UCH 2019
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Periódicos - Análisis de contenido - España
Periodismo deportivo - España
Prensa - Análisis de contenido - España
Deportes para discapacitados físicos
050801 communication & media studies
Media coverage
Paralympics (13.
2008. Pekín
China)

HM
Mixed methods analysis
0508 media and communications
Sports journalism - Spain
Beijing
Political science
0502 economics and business
Sports for people with disabilities
Juegos Paralímpicos (13.
2008. Pekín
China)

Paralympics (14.
2012. London
Great Britain)

Communication
05 social sciences
Media studies
Juegos Paralímpicos (14.
2012. Londrés
Gran Bretaña)

Framing (social sciences)
Medios de comunicación social y deportes - España
H1
Mass media and sports - Spain
Newspapers - Content analysis - Spain
Press - Content analysis - Spain
050212 sport
leisure & tourism

Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Zdroj: CEU Repositorio Institucional
Fundación Universitaria San Pablo CEU (FUSPCEU)
ISSN: 2167-4795
Popis: Este artículo se encuentra disponible en la página web de la revista en la siguiente URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2167479518808237 This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Solves, J., Pappous, A., Rius, I., & Kohe, G. Z. (2019). Framing the Paralympic Games: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Spanish Media Coverage of the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Paralympic Games. Communication & Sport, 7(6), 729?751. Copyright © 2019 SAGE Publications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479518808237. Este es el pre-print de Solves, J., Pappous, A., Rius, I., & Kohe, G. Z. (2019). Framing the Paralympic Games: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Spanish Media Coverage of the Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Paralympic Games. Communication & Sport, 7(6), 729?751 que se ha publicado de forma definitiva en https://doi.org/10.1177/2167479518808237. In recent years, there has been an increased emergence of studies focusing on the media coverage of the Paralympic Games. Until recently, studies have predominately used quantitative content analyses that, although providing useful interrogation of observational patterns, limits the understanding of and appreciation for the contexts that may have shaped the production of information. By focusing exclusively on the ‘what’ and on the ‘how much’ it is difficult to reveal the ‘why’ and to identify the underlying motives of any changes. This paper recognizes the nuances of the editorial decision-making process by using a mixed methods approach; employing quantitative and qualitative data drawn from a case study focusing on the Spanish media coverage of the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games. An initial content analysis of all news published in Spain’s twelve highest-circulation newspapers during Beijing 2008 and London 2012 Paralympic Games was undertaken. Subsequently, 15 semi-structured interviews were conducted with journalists that were also sent to these two iterations of the Paralympic Games by Spanish media. Drawing on conceptualisations of media framing, the results highlight that the numerical data alone shed insufficient light on the complexity of the news-making process. The semi-structured interviews brought to light issues such as editorial management buoyed by commercial imperatives, and organisational interjection in journalists’ narratives and authorship, that also contoured coverage and content. In addition to further debate about the complexities of media coverage of Paralympic sport, the study also underscores the utility of incorporating and combining qualitative methodologies within sport media and communication research.
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