Guardians of the Hegemonic Structure of Sports? Women’s Sports as Perceived by Polish Female Sports Journalists

• Authors: Natalia Organista , Zuzanna Mazur

Title variants

Strażniczki hegemonicznej struktury sportu? Postrzeganie sportu kobiet przez polskie dziennikarki sportowe

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The under-representation of media coverage of women’s sports has been a long-standing phenomenon, which can also be observed in Poland (Dziubiński, Organista and Mazur 2019; Jakubowska 2015; Kluczyńska 2011). One of the possible reasons for less information on women’s sports is a small number of female sports journalists. Due to the lack of Polish research on female sports journalists, the authors of this article aimed at analyzing their beliefs about women’s sports and the under-representation of media coverage of women’s sports in the Polish media. The analysis has shown that the female journalists perceive women’s sports as inferior to men’s sports and are not in favor of increasing the amount of information about women’s sports. The authors point to the socialization into sport, the professional socialization of the research participants, their minority status in the profession as well as their perception of masculinity, femininity, and professionalism in journalism as possible reasons for the way in which women’s sport is perceived by them.

PL

Niedoreprezentowanie medialnych przekazów o sporcie kobiet jest od lat wskazywanym fenomenem do­tyczącym również Polski. Jako jedną z możliwych przyczyn mniej licznych informacji o sporcie kobiet wskazuje się niekiedy małą liczbę dziennikarek sportowych. W związku z brakiem polskich badań dziennikarek sportowych posta­nowiono przeanalizować ich przekonania na temat sportu kobiet oraz niedoreprezentowania przekazów medialnych o sporcie kobiet w polskich mediach. Badanie wykazało, iż dziennikarki sportowe postrzegają sport kobiet jako gorszy niż sport mężczyzn i nie popierają zwiększenia ilości informacji o sporcie kobiet. Autorka wskazuje na socjalizację do sportu i zawodową badanych, ich mniejszościowy status w zawodzie oraz postrzeganie męskości, kobiecości i profe­sjonalizmu w dziennikarstwie jako możliwe przyczyny postrzegania przez badane sportu kobiet.

Keywords

EN

sports journalism; female sports journalists; women’s sports; Polish media

PL

sport kobiet; dziennikarstwo sportowe; dziennikarki sportowe; sport kobiet; dziennikarstwo sportowe; dziennikarki sportowe

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Przegląd Socjologii Jakościowej
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 48-64

Dates

published

2020-02-29

Contributors

author

Natalia Organista

• University of Physical Education in Warsaw

• https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0106-7568

author

Zuzanna Mazur

• University of Physical Education in Warsaw

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1711-4173

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/1733-8069.16.1.04