Football Misinformation Matrix: A Comparative Study of 2020 Winter Transfer News in Four European Sports Media Outlets
| العنوان: | Football Misinformation Matrix: A Comparative Study of 2020 Winter Transfer News in Four European Sports Media Outlets |
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| المؤلفون: | Matheus Simoes Mello, José Luis Rojas Torrijos |
| المساهمون: | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Periodismo II |
| المصدر: | Journalism and Media, Vol 2, Iss 37, Pp 625-640 (2021) idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla instname Journalism and Media Volume 2 Issue 4 Pages 37-640 |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2021. |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | football, Rumours, Football, League, Digital media, Political science, Mainstream, Misinformation, Ethic, misinformation, business.industry, Sports journalism, Communication. Mass media, Advertising, ethics, P87-96, Information overload, transfer window, Journalism. The periodical press, etc, PN4699-5650, Content analysis, Guardian, sports journalism, Transfer window, rumours, business |
| الوصف: | Mainstream sports media generate a football information overload that sometimes makes it difficult to separate rumours from real news. Accordingly, this paper analyses the level of misinfor- mation in the coverage of the 2020 winter football transfer window in four leading European digital sports media outlets: Marca (Spain), A Bola (Portugal), La Gazzetta (Italy) and The Guardian Sport (Britain). The methodology used was based on the content analysis of hundreds of news pieces and tweets posted on these outlets’ football homepages and Twitter handles over a month. To examine to what extent this coverage may have been speculative, misleading or false, the misinformation matrix developed by the fact-checking organisation First Draft News was employed to classify five different types of inaccuracies in sports reporting. A system was also created to determine how many reported rumours finally turned out to be true, which sources were more reliable and what outlets resulted more accurate. The findings reveal that the four digital media published a larger amount of non-factual content about likely football deals rather than sealed transfers. Speculative reporting prevailed in the coverage of the top teams in each league, on which the media outlets placed the accent, whereas reporting about minor clubs was based more on factual news. |
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| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2673-5172 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::1ee328bfd6ea586649fe20634235b591 https://www.mdpi.com/2673-5172/2/4/37 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....1ee328bfd6ea586649fe20634235b591 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 26735172 |
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