'Life is more important than football' : comparative analysis of Tweets and Facebook comments regarding the cancellation of the 2015 African Cup of Nations in Morocco
| Autor: | Nicolas Moreau, Laetitia Atlani Duault, Andrew Wilson, Mélissa Roy |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre population et développement (CEPED - UMR_D 196), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université de Paris (UP) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Sociology and Political Science
MAROC [SHS.INFO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciences [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] 05 social sciences Media studies 050801 communication & media studies Football [SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences GUINEE EQUATORIALE 0508 media and communications Political science 0502 economics and business Social media [SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie 050212 sport leisure & tourism Social Sciences (miscellaneous) |
| Zdroj: | International Review for the Sociology of Sport International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2021, 56 (2), pp.252-275. ⟨10.1177/1012690219899610⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1461-7218 |
| Popis: | This study analyzes comments from two major social media, Facebook and Twitter, regarding the controversial cancellation of the 2015 African Cup of Nations (CAN) in Morocco and its transfer to Equatorial Guinea, a move precipitated by the contemporaneous outbreaks of Ebola in West Africa. Using frame analysis methodology (frames being the central ideas structuring a narrative account of an issue, event or controversy), it investigates how the sporting and health worlds are understood and conceptualized on Twitter and Facebook, in the context of a specific event. We also investigated the extent to which these frames are platform-specific. Data were collected by keyword extraction and submitted to a qualitative thematic and frame analysis, from which we identified six frames (Epidemic management, Sporting event, Political, Skepticism, Religion, and Economic). Analysis of these frames identified a number of classic issues from the sociology of not only football and epidemics but also of African political issues. The cancellation of the CAN thus provides an excellent window into the complex links between sport, heath and politics. Indeed, the online comments of social media users expressed a rich range of pre-existing frustrations, beliefs and political positions. Our results show that, in the context of the cancellation of the 2015 CAN, tweets mostly framed the event as an epidemic management issue, while Facebook comments typically framed it as an epidemic management, sporting and political event. Some themes treated in a factual way on Twitter became politicized on Facebook where, in addition, new political themes emerged. We conclude that studying social media conversations relating to a mega-sporting event could provide sociologically valuable insights about topics not typically directly associated with sport or health. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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