Athletes with disabilities in the Paralympic Games: a framing analysis of television news

Kyoung T. Kim, Soonhwan Lee, Eung Soo Oh

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Abstract

The current study is intended to examine how mass media, especially TV news transcripts, have framed the Paralympic games and athletes with disabilities in their coverage of these events. A total of 283 United States TV news transcripts of broadcasts covering the Paralympic events held during the 25-year period between 1988 and 2012 were analysed in terms of three aspects of framing: (a) the types of issues covered, (b) the sources of information cited, and (c) the manner in which either episodic or thematic stories were employed. The results of the current study reveal that issues of optimism were the most commonly highlighted, athletes with disabilities were the most frequently cited sources of information, and episodic framing was the most commonly employed style in TV news transcripts of the Paralympic Games. The results yielded insight on how news networks have framed the Paralympic Games.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)255-275
Number of pages21
JournalManaging Sport and Leisure
Volume22
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Jul 2017

Keywords

  • disability sport
  • framing disability
  • framing theory
  • media framing
  • Paralympic Games
  • sport media

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