An Investigation of the Attitudes of Sports Media towards Women's Sports

Aliye Menevşe,Muhammed Emin Ablay

doi:10.13189/ujer.2019.070112

Abstract

This study aims to examine attitudes of media employees and managers toward women's The research universe includes media employees in Istanbul and academicians in field of while research sample includes Skorer tv, Fanatik newspaper employees and academicians of Esenyurt University and Istanbul University. Descriptive research model in research, Attitudes of Media towards Women's in our Country survey consists of two sections with 16 items and 28 questions. A total of 161 people were selected by random method [n = 80 media employees; (F = 50, M = 30), n = 81 academicians; (F = 48, M = 33)] SPSS package program 22 was used in data statistics and data were evaluated with frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, single factor variance analysis (Oneway ANOVA) at 0.05 level. It was found that female and male media employees disagreed with following two statements with highest average: 'News reports about female athletes are credible and convincing' (F; = 3.9987, M; =4.379); 'The number of female media employees is in media'(M; = 3.746, F; = 3.9045). It was also found that male media employees disagreed with following two statements with an average higher than that of female media employees: Articles of columnists about female athletes are convincing (M; = 4.379, F; = 2.5005); In our country, there is a Women's media which provides professional press services (M; = 3.113, F; = 2.2798). The statement with highest average (M; = 3.68) of disagreement from male was Government makes use of media instruments to encourage women to start sports while statement with highest average (F; = 3.9944) of disagreement from female media employees was Sports media considers demands from readers when determining editorial policy for women's sports. The female participants who participated in our study disagreed with statements in our survey on the attitudes of media on women's sports and statement that the sources of women's and athletes are sufficient with an average higher than that of male media employees.

Highlights

Studies on sport and gender relations that began in frame sizes discussions in the 80s, mostly of bodies working in this field in the sport in the 90s that dealt with research to the position of female identity and the 2000s work which they discussed the masculinity issues in sport
The journal titled “Futbol” that started to be published on September 28, 1910, by Üsküdarlı Mehmet Burhanettin Bey whom Turkish sports and sports press knew by the name of Burhan Felek is one of the important works in the history of sports press
This study was conducted to examine the opinions of sports media employees and sports managers in universities about the “attitudes of sports media in our country towards women’s sports”

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Studies on sport and gender relations that began in frame sizes discussions in the 80s, mostly of bodies working in this field in the sport in the 90s that dealt with research to the position of female identity and the 2000s work which they discussed the masculinity issues in sport. It was observed that the education and sports colleges were carried out by academicians and most of them were descriptive researches which did not include a gender discussion in the critical context. The journal titled “Futbol” that started to be published on September 28, 1910, by Üsküdarlı Mehmet Burhanettin Bey whom Turkish sports and sports press knew by the name of Burhan Felek is one of the important works in the history of sports press. All the articles and photos published in the journal, which is accepted as the pioneer of the Turkish sports press and published half in Turkish and a half in French, belonged to Burhan Felek. Following Burhan Felek’s journal “Futbol” that was published for 6 months, in July 1911, Selim Sırrı Tarcan introduced a new journal titled “Terbiye ve Oyun”. “Jimnastik” and “Riyaziyat-ı Bedeniyye”, written in 1891 by Faik Üstünidman, one of the physical education teachers of Galatasaray High School, were among the first of sports articles [2]

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