The image of women in digital sports press: analysis of the covers of as.com and marca.com
Keywords:
Sports information, Women and Sport, Digital Journalism, Sexism, Information on Gender.
Abstract
This paper analyze the image of women in the two most widely read sports digital media Spain. On the covers of as.com and marca.com 5,105 photographs have been counted. Only in 2.45% of the images analyzed we found a woman athlete. In six out of ten photos we see some sort of sexual connotation.Downloads
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Published
2017-04-28
How to Cite
Mayoral Sánchez J. y Mera Fernández M. (2017). The image of women in digital sports press: analysis of the covers of as.com and marca.com. CIC. Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, 22, 187-201. https://doi.org/10.5209/CIYC.55974
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Monograph
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