Petty, Kate and Pope, Stacey (2019) 'A new age for media coverage of women’s sport? an analysis of English media coverage of the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup.', Sociology., 53 (3). pp. 486-502.
Abstract
This article examines English print media coverage of the England national women’s football (soccer) team during the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup. It draws on a content analysis of five English national newspapers from 24 May to 14 August 2015. A wide body of research has demonstrated that women’s sport continues to be greatly underrepresented in the media but our findings are important as they demonstrate that during this tournament, women’s football received a significant amount of print media coverage and that this coverage was largely positive. We argue that we have entered a new age of media coverage of women’s sport in the UK, with a shift towards greater gender equality.
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| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038518797505 |
| Publisher statement: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Date accepted: | 09 August 2018 |
| Date deposited: | 14 August 2018 |
| Date of first online publication: | 04 October 2018 |
| Date first made open access: | No date available |
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