Women, men, and five Olympic rings: An examination of Chinese Central Television's broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. (September 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Women, men, and five Olympic rings: An examination of Chinese Central Television's broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. (September 2020)
- Main Title:
- Women, men, and five Olympic rings: An examination of Chinese Central Television's broadcast of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics
- Authors:
- Xu, Qingru
Billings, Andrew
Wang, Hua
Jin, Rui
Guo, Sitong
Xu, Mingming - Abstract:
- This study conducts a content analysis on Chinese Central Television's broadcasting of figure skating, short track speed skating, and freestyle skiing—the three most popular winter sports in the People's Republic of China—at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics from the perspective of biological sex. A full examination of 100% (over 37 h) of Chinese Central Television's broadcast coverage was analyzed in terms of clock-time, name-mentions, and descriptors. In each sport examined, female athletes received less clock-time and fewer name-mentions compared to their male counterparts. However, in the analysis of 7765 descriptors, relatively few significant differences between depictions of male and female athletes were uncovered, potentially explained by the Communist legacy of erasing women's feminine characteristics and the relatively equal number of male and female commentators in Chinese Central Television's sports newsrooms. Also, compared to many Western countries, male figure skaters in the People's Republic of China received more clock-time and name-mentions, possibly attributed to cultural differences in defining ideal masculinity across East Asia and the West.
- Is Part Of:
- International review for the sociology of sport. Volume 55:Number 6(2020)
- Journal:
- International review for the sociology of sport
- Issue:
- Volume 55:Number 6(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 55, Issue 6 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 55
- Issue:
- 6
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0055-0006-0000
- Page Start:
- 747
- Page End:
- 766
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09
- Subjects:
- biological sex -- People's Republic of China -- content analysis -- Olympics -- sports media -- winter sports
Sports -- Social aspects -- Periodicals
306.48305 - Journal URLs:
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http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/1012690219849950 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1012-6902
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