Sports Network Research Articles

A (Meta) Picture is Worth a Thousand “Likes:” An Analysis of Engagement with Sports Network Images on Instagram

Previous studies on sports images have often focused on gender and race representation. However, with the rise of social media, sports photographers worldwide are fighting professionally produced and user-created images for audience attention. Recent scholarship has shown that stronger storytelling elements in sports photographs spur an increase in lower-level engagement metrics. The current study dives deeper into the types of images that generate key social media engagement. Researchers conducted a biometric analysis of 28 randomly sampled Instagram images from sports networks’ official feeds. Results indicate that social media images containing metacommunicative themes increase audience engagement. These findings offer insights into improving social media engagement for sports news sources.

Association between concussion understanding and stakeholder knowledge translation in collegiate sports

The purpose of this study was to determine if there was an association between concussion understanding and stakeholder knowledge translation in collegiate sports following the mandate of Rowan's Law in Ontario, Canada. To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine concussion knowledge translation within a sport network using social network analysis. A cross-sectional design was used to evaluate 76 collegiate athletes (54 females, 21 males, 1 not identified), aged 20.55 years (SD = 3.4) who completed a survey on sport demographics, concussion knowledge and stakeholders who provided concussion information during the sport season. Athlete concussion knowledge scores and reported stakeholders were examined. An average of three key stakeholders provided concussion information to 82% of the varsity athletes in our study. Athletes reported that a coach or athletic trainer most often provided concussion knowledge. Overall, athlete concussion knowledge scores were the same for athletes who sought concussion knowledge from stakeholders and those who did not. Over 95% of athletes in the study did not access the Rowan's Law website for mandated concussion education. These findings suggest that Rowan's Law is hugely neglected resulting in stakeholder knowledge translation having minimal influence on an athletes’ understanding of concussions. Future recommendations include verified review of mandated concussion education resources and testing of concussion knowledge for all persons associated with sport in Ontario. Due to the number of athletes seeking concussion knowledge in their varsity athlete network, accurate sport specific resources should be provided to support stakeholders who are in direct contact with athletes.

Enacting environmental commitments and initiatives in Australian Olympic sport: an actor-network theory perspective

ABSTRACT Rationale Existing studies on sport and environmental sustainability have overlooked the role of actors and elements influencing the integration of environmental considerations at central levels of the operations of sport organisations. Approach This paper uses Actor-Network Theory and semi-structured interviews to identify and critique actants and moments of translation embedded within the Australian Olympic sport network. Findings Seven actant roles were identified within the Australian Olympic sport organisations’ network structures enacting environmental commitments and initiatives: interrogators, custodians, coordinators, providers, amplifiers, bottlenecks, and distant disruptors. In addition, economic imperatives, environmental enlightenment, and the redesign of sport experiences were identified as transformative moments in the process of enacting. Practical implications This research informs environmental policy development in the research literature and policymaking aiming to adopt and promote environmental commitments in sport. Research contribution We argue that the enactment of environmental commitments and initiatives within Australian sport organisations is a dynamic, transformative process in which all parts of organisational actants (internal and external to the organisation; human or non-human actants) contribute to action, playing multiple roles empowering and constraining (at times, simultaneously) environmental sustainability transitions.

Retracted: A Method for Recommending Sports Network Course Resources Based on Collaborative Filtering Technology

Retracted: A Method for Recommending Sports Network Course Resources Based on Collaborative Filtering Technology

Practice of PE Teaching Reform in Colleges and Universities Under the Background of Multimedia Internet

Multimedia network technology refers to multimedia network teaching based on text data communication, which can make better use of sports resources in college physical education teaching. Multimedia technology combines computer and video technology. It refers to the combination of two or more sounds and images to form a system that can transmit information. When the initial key changes slightly, the hash bit change rate of the scheme is greater than the threshold value of 0.451, which shows that the hash algorithm in this paper has good key sensitivity. The more sensitive the perceived hash is to the change of the key, the more difficult it is for the attacker to estimate the key, and the better the security of the hash key. Therefore, the above experiments can prove that the hash algorithm in this paper is safe. The appearance of sports network distance education in this paper provides a broader stage for schools and makes greater contributions to the improvement of the overall physical quality of citizens in the whole society.

СУЧАСНІ ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ РОЗВИТКУ СПОРТИВНОЇ ЖУРНАЛІСТИКИ УКРАЇНИ (НА ПРИКЛАДІ ІНТЕРНЕТ-ВИДАНЬ)

<p><strong>Purpose.</strong> The purpose of the research is to identify and generalize the trends characteristic of the development of sports journalism in Ukraine at the current stage of the development of domestic mass media and, accordingly, to form a portrait of the requirements for a modern domestic sports media worker.</p><p><strong>Research methodology.</strong> To achieve the goal, a set of research methods was applied. In particular observation, comparison, analysis (helped to clarify the essence of key concepts, elaborate scientific literature, identify trends that accompany the functioning of sports journalism, the possibilities of their influence on media activity), genre (played a role in clarifying the genre features of journalistic materials), synthesis (contributed to the formation of blocks of trends in the development of sports journalism in Ukraine and the construction of the article), generalization (influenced the formulation of intermediate and general conclusions).<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Results.</strong> <em>Sports journalism is under the influence of digital and Internet technologies. This affects the intensification of its development, the operational component, promotes the promotion of traditional mass media and the emergence of new ones, in particular through social networks, on the World Wide Web. </em><em></em></p><p><em>Sports journalism in Ukraine is also characterized by the weakening of professional standards, the dependence of media workers on information sources, local clubs, organizations, and institutions.</em></p><p><em>Often, sports journalists are forced to form a picture of the day subjectively due to the refusal of experts to comment. </em></p><p><em>An important feature of modern sports journalism in Ukraine is that its representatives strive for universality in their work, perform duties at a multifunctional level.</em></p><p><em>The promotion in the Internet space contributes to the activation of the use of information genres. To a lesser extent, authors use analytical genres and the value of journalistic investigation and artistic and journalistic genres are not sufficiently appreciated.</em></p><p><em>From the point of view of topics journalists pay less attention to problems in children’s, women’s and veteran sports, instead they learn more about topics that can ensure financial success for websites and improve their attendance. </em></p><p><em>Sports network media mainly perform informative, advertising and entertainment functions, while the functions of public control and social criticism are almost invisible. At the same time, in connection with the Russian-Ukrainian war, the role of the ideological function in domestic means of communication has increased.</em></p><p>Taking into account the observed trends, a portrait of the requirements for modern domestic sports media workers has been formulated.</p><p><strong>Novelty.</strong> The main trends affecting the development of domestic sports mass media have been identified, systematized and understood, and requirements for journalists with appropriate specialization have been formulated based on their analysis.</p><p><strong>Practical meaning.</strong> The published results on the topic of the study can be taken into account when training media personnel for the needs of sports journalism, with the aim of improving its functioning, in the process of studying the psychology of creative workers of sports media.</p><p><strong>Key words:</strong> sports journalism, Internet media, development trends, genre, journalist, site.</p>

Identifying Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Barriers in the Physical Education Administration of Afghanistan’s Ministry of Education

The main of this study was to identify the strengths, weaknesses, barriers and opportunities in the Physical Education Directorate of the Ministry of Education of Afghanistan. The applied research method is of descriptive type. The population of the study was the directors of the Physical Education Department and the faculty members of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports Sciences of Kabul Education University. Thirty-five individuals were the participants of the study. The research questionnaire consisted of four parts (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and barriers) which were used after determining the validity and reliability. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data in SPSS 24 software. The results showed that the most important strengths were the existence of sports networks, paying attention to sports and physical education, the existence of participatory management space as well as setting for collective decision-making. The most noticeable weaknesses are the lack of a strategic plan in the General Directorate of Physical Education, lack of well-trained physical education instructors and its disproportion to the student population of the country. The opportunities available in this field were the young population and the existence of many talents in physical education in the country, increasing the level of education of physical education instructors; and the big threats were the influence and interference of other bodies and non-specialized officials in physical education administration, as well as lack of sufficient funds for sports education. Managers and staff members of the Physical Education General Directorate should better plan for the achievement of high efficiency and effectiveness by identifying strengths and weaknesses and taking advantage of environmental opportunities and barriers.

Economies of Mourning, Canadian Nationalism, and the Broncos: An Affective Reading of TSN’s 29 Forever

On April 6, 2018, the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team was traveling to a playoff game on a rural highway when their bus collided with a semitrailer truck, killing 16 people. The crash led to an unparalleled, nation-wide outpouring of mourning. The legacy of the crash has been sustained by media outlets such as The Sports Network, who released a documentary on the crash, 29 Forever. Through an affective reading of 29 Forever, this paper explores the processes by which the Humboldt bus crash came to be known and felt as a national tragedy, how the crash fits within larger practices of Canadian nation-making, and the role that hockey, emotion, and feelings play in these processes.

Toward a Sport Ecosystem Logic

Network approaches in sport management are mainly guided by the logic of sport products, where firms produce value that is used-up by consumers. This logic neglects the collaborative nature of sport. On the contrary, the logic of value co-creation provides a perspective where actors collaborate to co-create value in sport networks. Thus, this purely conceptual research aims to examine approaches to value co-creation in sport ecosystems to offer a holistic perspective on the interconnectedness of actors and engagement platforms. Using the concepts of value co-creation, engagement platforms, and sport network approaches, this paper conceptualizes the Sport Ecosystem Logic as a general theory to promote innovative research. Comprising five fundamental premises, the Sport Ecosystem Logic explains how actors’ shared interests in sporting activities evolve into an entire sport ecosystem. The Sport Ecosystem Logic advances our understanding of actors’ resource integration on sport engagement platforms and how these platforms are interconnected in a sport ecosystem.

P07-08 The City of Antibes' Prescription Sports plan, the first « Health Sports Centre » in the Alpes-Maritimes department

Today, Antibes is obviously the « Health and Sport city ». Demographic and epidemiological studies reveal problems of ageing and isolation of elderly people; often they are subject to serious health consequences and triggering the loss of autonomy. Precariousness and social isolation also enhance the occurence or deterioration of certain health problems (cardiovascular diseases, cancers, depression, etc.). All these factors lead to a growth of long term illnesses.Following a national law health system modernisation in 2017, the City of Antibes, the Hospital Centre and the Regional Medical and Sport Centre have set up a program called “Pass Form Santé” dedicated to “Prescription Sports”.What does it consist of? Who are the beneficiaries? What are the means implemented?This unique and innovative program in the Alpes Maritimes aims to help people with chronic diseases to improve their health and the way of taking medication. It is to guide them to an adapted physical practice of activity at a regular, secure and progressive way on the recommendation of an attending physician.The City of Antibes has all the resources to enable the implementation of this program: multi-disciplinary local municipal establishments, well trained human resources in different adapted physical activities, and a substantial network of sport and medical-social partners. Since 2017, 135 people have joined the “Pass Form Santé” program. 47% of prescriptions came from liberal or specialist doctors, 31% from hospitals and 22% from the Medical-Sportive Centre of Antibes. The breakdown of pathologies shows a majority cases in cardiology and oncology.Qualitative result on the beneficiaries' health is unequivocal. The program allows them to feel better physically and morally. This “Pass Form Santé” program perfectly meets their expectations and allows them to get closer to an autonomous practice or to join any associative sports network.The city of Antibes, together with its partners, has known how to create this innovative program called “Pass Form Santé” in order to develop prescription sports. It serves as a common link between beneficiaries, the medical professionals and the associative sport networks in order to encourage people with a chronic disease to resume physical activity.

Analysis of Sports Popular Trend Based on Public Opinion Mining of New Media

As an important means of communication, sports public opinion has been paid more and more attention by the country. This article will focus on the emergency events of sports events as the main object and research and analysis of the communication function and law in the public opinion of sports events and analyzes the characteristics of public opinion communication. This paper holds that the media play the “should be” roles in different periods, such as network public opinion monitoring and early warning, public opinion information processing and interpretation, consensus builder highlighting the mainstream, and introspection of public opinion events, and there is a media role cycle in the secondary public opinion period. Spreading law of public opinion in sports events in China: trigger-conduction-outbreak mechanism. At present, the diversified interactive mode of sports events in China makes the communication environment of public opinion in sports events more and more three-dimensional and multidimensional, and it is also convenient for us to make better use of the current regulation means of public opinion in sports events. Sports network public opinion can easily go to “post-truth.” In order to strengthen the monitoring of sports public opinion and improve the ability to respond to network public opinion, using interdisciplinary thinking, this paper proposes a network public opinion guidance strategy for sports events. The experiment is aimed at the disadvantage that the trend of sports public opinion analysis and tracking is not clear. The optimization method is proposed, and the accuracy is improved by 87.5%.

Integration and Application of Online Sports Resources Based on Multidimensional Intelligent Technology and Resource Optimization Architecture

Share the relevant factors of the overall structure of the sports network in colleges and universities, and divide the overall structure of its operation system. In view of the unequal division of educational resources, this paper proposes the construction content of the college sports network education resource sharing mechanism: the construction of college sports network education resources, the college sports network education resource sharing platform, and the management and coordination of college network education resources sharing. In the guidance of cybernetics based on the basic characteristics of network education resources, the sharing of sports network education resources is realized, so as to effectively build a scientific evaluation index system.

Tech Optimization in Cybersecurity Defenses by Advanced ML Methods: The Use Case of Volleyball Industry.

Individual and team performance can be improved by utilizing “smart” devices and applications that are connected through networks. In sports, the Internet of Things (IoT) refers to all of the “smart” devices and applications linked through networks to reduce injuries to the bare minimum, develop advanced training techniques, and apply analytical advanced sports improvement methodologies to improve sports performance in general. The Internet of Things (IoT) in sports is closely related to the objective of both security and privacy in sports, which has become a topic of crucial concern for the sports business in recent years, as evidenced by the adoption of IoT in sports years. For this reason, security flaws can have catastrophic consequences, including the disclosure of personal data, the manipulation of statistical findings, the harming of organizations' reputations, and enormous financial losses for the sporting organization. One or more of the consequences, as previously mentioned, is related to sports organizations and the athletes who are members of those organizations, and they have a direct impact on the corresponding set of sports-related, medical-related, and paramedical enterprises, specifically those that provide specialized sports equipment and associated services. A critical need to detect and quantify threats has long been recognized to better support decision-making when adopting or constructing a safe and reliable sports Internet-of-Things infrastructure, which is becoming increasingly common. Using advanced machine learning algorithms, this research provides a methodology for technology optimization in cybersecurity defenses that is then used in a unique case study utilizing volleyball players to demonstrate its effectiveness. In conjunction with a Monte Carlo optimization technique, an upgraded variant of fuzzy cognitive maps (FCM) is presented in greater detail. This model is utilized for a specific scenario of risk identification of volleyball industry, assessment, and optimization for IoT sports networks.

Application of 5G Internet of Things Technology in the Design of Physical Education Platform.

The traditional college physical education platform can only assist classroom teaching and cannot collect classroom teaching activity data in real time, and its role is very limited. With the rapid development of information technology, China's mobile communication has entered the 5G era and the Internet of Things technology will be more widely used and developed. This paper focuses on the integration technology of 5G and the Internet of Things, analyzes the current situation of the construction of the physical education platform in colleges and universities, and proposes the application of the 5G-based Internet of Things technology in the physical education platform. At the same time, the research of this paper is oriented to real-time physical education activities, using the Internet of Things technology and wireless network technology, combined with the traditional campus network and IT information technology means, to propose a new, dynamic, and open sports network teaching platform design. Activity data collection, analysis, modeling, mining, display, feedback, self-improvement, etc. are expounded. At the same time, the realization technology of the model is discussed, and the experimental design of the combination of the platform and volleyball sports teaching is carried out. The experiment shows that through the platform, simulation can better promote students' understanding, mastery, and application of basic techniques such as passing, padding, and serving. The research results show that the platform can make the teaching content intuitive and collect teaching activity data in real time. The interaction between students is helpful for teachers to strengthen the guidance of students' learning process and improve the quality of physical education in higher vocational education.

Design of the Online Learning System for College Physical Education Teaching Based on the BP Neural Network

The popularization of the campus network provides the possibility for the realization of online sports teaching. Based on the current situation of college physical education, the existing electronic textbooks, individual technical education software, educational videos, and other resources are neatly integrated. It builds a sports network education platform that is helpful for students to learn and realizes open interactive education. Nowadays, with the development of the Internet, artificial intelligence technology has solved many problems for people. The learning model combining artificial intelligence and online education has also become a new trend of educational informatization. This paper is based on the BP neural network in artificial intelligence to explore the design of the college sports teaching system in school. The purpose of this paper is at developing an online learning system suitable for college sports, so as at improving the learning efficiency and learning experience of college sports students. This paper firstly introduces the background and research significance of online learning, the BP neural network. Then, it introduces the design of the BP neural network and online system; in this paper, a series of introductions are given to its structure, function, and recommendation algorithm. Afterwards, this paper tests the performance of the designed system and finds that the average response time of the system is 0.978 s. Finally, this paper does a questionnaire survey to the users of the learning system. It is found that both in the recognition and in the liking sections, the satisfaction of students and teachers is relatively high.

The connection to the public's preferred sports analysis and physical education curriculum.

People have their favorite type of sport, but such preferences tend to be shared for nearly a lifetime. How this preference persists remains inconclusive; hence, this study attempts to determine why people have different viewpoints on sports. It is reasonable to infer that these differences arise from differences in culture, occupation, and race. Therefore, we collected the following data and conducted research in Korea, the United States, and Japan, countries with various differences. The types of sports that people play were collected through surveys and comparisons among sports networks. Namely, "Sport Classification," "The K-12 Physical Education System (textbooks)," "Survey (actual physical activity)," "Simple Notification Service (SNS) Activity" have been examined to deduce the reason why any particular sport is played. Firstly, Korea, the United States, and Japan conduct different physical education courses. Hence, the results affect people's preferences. Secondly, what people post on SNS and their actual physical activities are different. Thirdly, the degree of connection between sports-type varied as well. Lastly, sports that serve the purpose of being regarded as hubs among sports-type were common in Korea, the United States, and Japan.

Recommendation Algorithm for Equilibrium of Teaching Resources in Physical Education Network Based on Trust Relationship

<p>Aiming at the problems of poor balance of recommended resources in the recommendation of traditional physical education network teaching resources and low trust degree of recommended physical education network teaching resources, this paper proposes a balanced recommendation algorithm for physical education network teaching resources based on trust relationship. By SVM algorithm, the teaching resources of physical education network are classified, and then the invalid data of teaching resources of physical education network are deleted, and the remaining teaching resources of physical education network are taken as the extraction object to complete the extraction of teaching resources of physical education network. Through Kalman filtering method, the data of sports network teaching resources with noise are reduced, and then the data with high similarity are fused to complete the preprocessing of physical education network teaching resources data. By constructing the trust relationship model, the relationship attribute between the recommended physical education network teaching resources data is determined. The experimental results show that the highest degree of resource equilibrium recommended by the proposed method is about 96 and the recommended resource trust is high.</p> <p> </p>

Estereotipos y medios de comunicación. El «corredor serio» en ESPN Run

The media have played a fundamental role in the spread of sports activities and, particularly, in the durability of certain disciplines as massive phenomena of global reach. But in addition to this, not only the mass media, but also the new digital media and social networks constitute key spaces for the crystallization of certain imaginaries and their stereotypes associated with certain practices, in this case sports. This article will analyze the stereotype of the "serious runner" shaped in the weekly television broadcast of a multinational sports network, ESPN Run. Every episode of this half-hour program usually focuses on a particular race and on the biography as a runner of an individual participant in the same event. Such runners are usually presented as exemplary cases of a lifestyle characterized by a dense set of ethical and aesthetic precepts. These exemplary runners are generally amateurs who exalt their firm commitment to the supposedly virtuous act of running, which also operates as a criterion of identity self-ascription.

“He Could Be Dangerous”: Orientalism, Deradicalization, and the Representation of Refugee Muslim Boxers in TSN’s Radical Play

In April 2016, TSN (The Sports Network), one of Canada’s most prominent broadcasting stations, aired a documentary miniseries,Radical Play, that describes how European organizations are “harnessing sport to prevent isolated Muslim youth from joining extremist groups.” The documentary focuses on Younes, a 17-year-old refugee in Hamburg, Germany, who has been recruited to participate in a deradicalization program run through a local boxing gym. This article offers a contextualized reading ofRadical Playthat explores how the problem of radicalization is constructed in the Canadian context, how sport is positioned in relation to deradicalization projects, and how deeply held beliefs about Muslim boys and men are communicated to Canadians through sporting discourses.

A Method for Recommending Sports Network Course Resources Based on Collaborative Filtering Technology

In the process of online course resource recommendation, the output of recommendation results is often unstable. Therefore, a physical education online course resource recommendation method based on collaborative filtering technology is proposed. Firstly, the learning preference of e-learners is calculated, the frequency index of the word frequency-inverse document is defined, the correlation between courses is reflected, and the specific needs of students for PE online course resource recommendation are understood. Then, the collaborative filtering recommendation algorithm is used to generate the similarity matrix and correlation matrix, update the edge characteristics of sports online curriculum resources, collect and refine the hidden index of sports online curriculum resources, optimize the prediction rules of the neighborhood of the most similar teaching unit, and complete the recommendation of sports online curriculum resources. Experimental results show that, for 1000 keywords, the method has the highest single average matching degree, the recommendation process is stable, and the F1 value is more than 0.9, and the practical application is ensured.