Ever since the beginning of sports, there has always be the sense of rivalry, whether it be between players, teams, coaches or countries, there is always the need to be better than the other, which the right side belongs to those who have proved it.
Attending the fifth annual Alabama Program in Sports Communication, I was able to catch the 9:10 am panel, Competitive Paper Panel. Three topics were presented, using a statistic model for predicting and analyzing a NHL result, how men and women genders are portrayed in athletics by analyzing the Chinese coverage of gymnastics from the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a battle of nationalism and self- identity within Great Britain by using the analysis from 2016 Union of European Football Associations EURO Championships. All sounded great and did present some knowledgeable information, but only one hung to me, the battle of nationalism and self – identity. …show more content…
D., presented on the topic of identity, “St. George vs. the Dragon in the Battle of Britain: British newspaper narratives and images about English and Welsh identity through the prism of the UEFA EURO 2016 Championships.” It seems that the main point throughout the talk was how the media portrays nationalism especially in the world of sports, in the case of England vs. Wales in a soccer match. The term ‘English Hooliganism’ was presented in Dr. Vincent’s talk, England almost being pulled out of the championship due to the English fans have a physical match with Russia’s fans. That term landed those fans on the front cover of a magazine along with a shot of the Queen of England celebrating her 90th birthday. This publication made the English fans seem to have no control of themselves, that they were animals wreaking havoc once breaking out of a zoo. England had no self-control and overall looked like a loose
Attending the fifth annual Alabama Program in Sports Communication, I was able to catch the 9:10 am panel, Competitive Paper Panel. Three topics were presented, using a statistic model for predicting and analyzing a NHL result, how men and women genders are portrayed in athletics by analyzing the Chinese coverage of gymnastics from the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a battle of nationalism and self- identity within Great Britain by using the analysis from 2016 Union of European Football Associations EURO Championships. All sounded great and did present some knowledgeable information, but only one hung to me, the battle of nationalism and self – identity. …show more content…
D., presented on the topic of identity, “St. George vs. the Dragon in the Battle of Britain: British newspaper narratives and images about English and Welsh identity through the prism of the UEFA EURO 2016 Championships.” It seems that the main point throughout the talk was how the media portrays nationalism especially in the world of sports, in the case of England vs. Wales in a soccer match. The term ‘English Hooliganism’ was presented in Dr. Vincent’s talk, England almost being pulled out of the championship due to the English fans have a physical match with Russia’s fans. That term landed those fans on the front cover of a magazine along with a shot of the Queen of England celebrating her 90th birthday. This publication made the English fans seem to have no control of themselves, that they were animals wreaking havoc once breaking out of a zoo. England had no self-control and overall looked like a loose