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Media coverage of women athletes during the Olympic Games
As one of the only major international multisport events to feature both men and women competitors, the Olympic Games are unique in that they provide an opportunity for more equitable media coverage between men and women athletes. This chapter presents an historical overview of both the amount and the quality of coverage devoted to women athletes during the Olympic Games, while also discussing the emergence of new media, the potential benefits internet-based media coverage holds for women athletes, the power that social media afford women athletes in terms of promoting their careers and seeking commercial opportunities, and the challenges many women athletes face with social media use. The chapter concludes with a profile of Olympic Gold medal-winning gymnast, Nastia Liukin, who is now a member of US-based broadcaster NBC’s Olympic broadcast team and who founded a company focused on empowering young female athletes via the use of a mobile app.
History
School
- Loughborough University London
Published in
Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women's SportPages
529 - 539Publisher
RoutledgeVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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© The AuthorPublisher statement
This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Routledge Handbook of the Business of Women's Sport on 21 May 2019, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9780203702635.Publication date
2019-05-21Copyright date
2019ISBN
9780203702635; 9781138571617Publisher version
Book series
Routledge International HandbooksLanguage
- en