On August 19, 2009, Caster Semenya, South African track star, won a gold medal in the women's 800-meter event. According to media reports, on the same day, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) ordered Semenya to undergo gender verification testing. This article critically assesses the main concepts and claims that undergird international sport organizations' policies re...

This communication presents a phonostylistic description of sport live media reports, contrasting three different sports, basketball, football (‘soccer’) and rugby. It is based on 12minute long recordings for each sport. The corpus is aligned at a phone level with EasyAlign, and manually annotated for the type of event in the game. It is analyzed with ProsoReport and ProsoDyn tools, a set of Pr...

The influence of player gender on referees’ decision making was experimentally investigated. In Experiment 1, including 145 male handball referees, we investigated (a) the influence of referees’ level of expertise on their decisional biases against women and (b) the referees’ gender stereotypes. Results revealed that biases against women were powerful regardless of the referees’ level of expert...

Sport has high social valence and is a primary context for physical activity for the majority of youth. Moreover, the number of youth competing in sports at national and international levels continues to increase. As a consequence of emphasis on sport, many children and adolescents are encouraged to begin specialized, systematic training in a sport at relatively young ages with the goal of atta...

The immersive and engaging characteristics of digital games are leading current pedagogical discussions about digital media. Game scientists, (pedagogical) researches, and practitioners continue to attempt to embed digital games in pedagogical settings. They consider these games to be so called serious games. The idea of serious games is that a digital game is not only played for fun and entert...

In this article we make use of inclusive masculinity theory to explore online media representations of male homosexuality and masculinity within the increasingly popular combat sport of mixed martial arts (MMA). Adopting a case-study approach, we discuss narratives constructed around one aspirational male MMA fighter, Dakota Cochrane, whose history of having participated in gay pornography beca...