The image of women in digital sports press: analysis of the covers of as.com and marca.com

This paper analyze the image of women in the two most widely read sports digital media Spain. On the covers of as.com and marca.com 5,105 photographs have been counted. Only in 2.45% of the images analyzed we found a woman athlete. In six out of ten photos we see some sort of sexual connotation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Javier Mayoral Sánchez, Montserrat Mera Fernández
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2017-09-01
Series:Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/CIYC/article/view/55974
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Summary:This paper analyze the image of women in the two most widely read sports digital media Spain. On the covers of as.com and marca.com 5,105 photographs have been counted. Only in 2.45% of the images analyzed we found a woman athlete. In six out of ten photos we see some sort of sexual connotation.
ISSN:1135-7991
1988-4001