Sport, Media and Discrimination

Daniel Kilvington, Professor of Media and Culture, Leeds Beckett University, UK.John Price, Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, University of Sunderland, UK.Jasmin Seijbel, PhD candidate and lecturer at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.Jacco van Sterkenburg, Endowed Professor 'Race', Inclusion and Communication at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

• Introduction. Part I: Diversity and the Sports Media Industry. 1. The Gender Imbalance in Australian Sports Media. 2. How Sports Media Undermines Women's Potential in an Age of Empowerment: A Field of Contradictions. 3. Activism or Journalism? An Auto-Ethnography of Brazilian Media in Loco Coverage of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. Part II: Sports Media Representations and Receptions. 4. Deriving Meaning from Spoken and Unspoken Frames in Sports Media: What Content Analysis Tells Us About Diversity. 5. Media Coverage of the Growth of Women's Sport: Disentangling Discursive Threads. 6. How Racism is Expressed, Reproduced, and Challenged in Online Dutch Football Forums. Part III: Sport, Social Media and Online Harms. 7. Under Siege: Hegemonic Masculinity and Online Harassment in Sports Journalism. 8. Online Abuse in Sport: Legal Implications. 9. Sports Journalists and Online Harms: Effective Protection Practices and Policies. Part IV: Esports and Discrimination. 10. Gender Equality in Esports Organizations. 11. Gender Dynamics in Sports Video Games: Levelling the Playing Field. 12. Social Inclusion and Exclusion in Esports Live Events: Insights From the 2024 Virtual Cycling World Championship.