This policy review overviews the Chinese path to sports modernization within the theoretical
framework of the Chinese path to modernization, which is centered on the principle of …

Legacy has become a watchword of hosting mega-events in recent years, used to justify
massive spending and far-reaching urban transformations. However, academic studies of …

The CBC's and NBC's primetime broadcasts of the 2014 Winter Olympics were analyzed to
determine differences between the media treatment of home nation and foreign athletes …

The progress in sentiment analytics and communication research provides a powerful
scaffold by which to reexamine the long-debated research on residents' attitudes toward …

In the field of sports and nationalism, little has been done to explore the process of how a
member from another nation become representatives of another imagined community. In …

Political comedy has seen considerable upheaval during the COVID-19 era. Broadcasting
from home—or not at all—or back in an audience-less studio, comedians have adjusted …

ABSTRACT A total of 1025 respondents from the USA and Germany were asked questions
about Olympic media consumption, fan involvement, and nationalized feelings over four …

To determine how consumption team performance (winning/losing) affects fan identification
and subsequent nationalism traits, a national survey of 720 respondents was conducted at …

Drawing on the literature on American nationalism and the social identity perspective, this
study examines the effects of mediasport on nationalized attitudes, using both rhetorical and …

Thematic textual analysis was used to evaluate the calls for financial participation and
donations that aired during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic across 55 episodes of …