With a few exceptions, media visibility and representation of people with disabilities is
scarce. It is biased and anchored in stigma, distorting their image and hindering their full …

This commentary provides a brief critique of current research on social media from a critical
pedagogical and sociological perspective. It discusses how social media has become …

USA, and a two-time National Collegiate Athletic Association champion for the University of
Connecticut, announced that she would sit out the twenty-third WNBA season—in the prime …

This report examines how the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC's) primetime
telecasts of the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic …

Michael Butterworth's lead article in the August-October special issue of Communication &
Sport raised important insights about unity within sport. This reply argues that those insights …

Sports and tourism are connected in various parts of economies, cultures, and nations.
However, there has been a limited understanding of sports event tourism involving disabled …

This work describes the crucial role celebrities played in the emergence of two competing
narratives about Covid-19, one a pro-science narrative that advocated for preventive …

The purpose of this commentary is to discuss how Paralympic coverage in sub-Saharan
Africa can be effectively mobilised to stimulate discursive and structural change around …

Since at least 1969, when Harry Edwards wrote that “the sports world is not a rose
flourishing in the middle of a wasteland” but “is part and parcel of that wasteland,” sport's …

Resumo Os Jogos Paralímpicos foram transmitidos na África Subsariana pela primeira vez
durante os Jogos de Tóquio de 2020. Isto ofereceu uma oportunidade única para abordar …