Mapping Women's Community Sport Participation to Inform Sport Development Initiatives: A Case Study of Row Ontario.

Using a spatial analysis methodology, we analyzed sport participation through membership data of a Provincial Sport Organization (PSO) in Ontario, Canada. Specifically, our analysis brings attention to the participation of women and girls in Row Ontario and the urban and rural nature of the PSO's membership. This research was conducted in partnership with the PSO to provide insights into how contextual factors influence sport participation and how these findings can inform future sport development efforts. Our results demonstrate that women and girls represented the majority of participants within the PSO and highlight an opportunity to use participant centered approaches for sport development to grow women and girls' participation. This is a promising outcome as women and girls are generally underrepresented in sport and may face greater participation barriers in rural contexts.

Re-thinking Women's Sport Research: Looking in the Mirror and Reflecting Forward.

Despite decades of research and advocacy-women's professional sports continue to be considered second class to men's sports. The goal of this paper is to rethink how we state, present, and solve problems in women's sport. To affect true change, the wisdom of a broad stakeholder group was embraced such that varied perspectives could be considered. A three-question survey was developed to examine what key constituents believe is working in women's sports, what they believe the salient challenges are for women's sport, and how they would prioritize the next steps forward in the post-pandemic sport landscape. Results indicated siloed differences of opinion based upon the age and role of the stakeholder in the women's sport ecosystem. We discuss the implications and offer recommendations as to how we as scholars might recalibrate our approach to women's sport scholarship to maximize the impact of our research and affect change.

Safety Culture: A Retrospective Analysis of Occupational Health and Safety Mining Reports.

BACKGROUND: In the mining industry, various methods of accident analysis have utilized official accident investigations to try and establish broader causation mechanisms. An emerging area of interest is identifying the extent to which cultural influences, such as safety culture, are acting as drivers in the reoccurrence of accidents. Thus, the overall objective of this study was to analyze occupational health and safety (OHS) reports in mining to investigate if/how safety culture has historically been framed in the mining industry, as it relates to accident causation. METHODS: Using a computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software, 34 definitions of safety culture were analyzed to highlight key terms. Based on word count and contextual relevance, 26 key terms were captured. Ten OHS reports were then analyzed via an inductive thematic analysis, using the key terms. This analysis provided a concept map representing the 50-year data set and facilitated the use of text framing to highlight safety culture in the selected OHS mining reports. RESULTS: Overall, 954 references and six themes, safety culture, attitude, competence, belief, patterns, and norms, were identified in the data set. Of the 26 key terms originally identified, 24 of them were captured within the text. The results made evident two distinct frames in which to interpret the data: the role of the individual and the role of the organization, in safety culture. CONCLUSION: Unless efforts are made to understand and alter cultural drivers and share these findings within and across industries, the same accidents are likely to continue to occur.

An Analysis of Broadcasting Media Using Social Media Engagement in the WNBA.

While there has been research into what teams, leagues, and athletes post on social media and the impact of post content on social media engagement, there is limited understanding and empirical research on the impact of broadcasting media on social sport consumption. There are an increasing number of new media through which sport leagues can distribute their content to fans. This research examines the impact of different broadcast platforms on game day engagement with WNBA team Twitter accounts. Using data for the 2016-2018 seasons, results indicate athlete/team quality and performance were positively associated with post engagement, underscoring the importance of the core sport product and potentially indicating that the WNBA is developing a star-driven culture similar to the NBA. In addition, broadcasting on League Pass or local TV (for home teams) and Twitter were associated with lower post engagement suggesting we have more to learn about maximizing online engagement.

A critical discourse analysis of gendered cardiovascular disease meanings of the #MoreMoments campaign on Twitter.

The purpose of this study was to explore how the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and Canadian Twitter users linked women's experiences and health identities with the #MoreMoments cardiovascular disease awareness campaign. Critical discourse analysis of Twitter data between September 2017 and November 2017 identified two primary discourses (tragedy and loss, and life and health) and two identity/subject positions (visionary leaders and successful survivors). Responsibility for women's health was attributed to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, also limiting neo-liberal healthism and risk identification. Novel findings included resistance through use of 'small stories' within discourses regarding the targeted demographic for health promotion and knowledge translation.

Reaction on Social Media to Online News Headlines Following the Release of Canada's Food Guide.

This paper investigated how traditional media headlines framed the release of Canada's Food Guide (CFG) online in 2019 and how audiences reacted to its release on social media. Titles of online news articles, Facebook comments on news stories, and tweets from Twitter were collected using Meltwater and manual data collection. Leximancer software conducted conceptual extraction and relational analyses on written words and visual text. Human coding was completed to contextualize the content, which identified 9 prominent frames (food guide, impact, health, sustainable plant food, who will use?, Canadian culture, food and consumption practices, meat, and dairy). Results suggested that online news headlines highlighted CFG release and alluded to potential impacts. Analysis of Facebook comments revealed that the most commonly discussed frames were health, food and consumption behaviours, sustainable plant food, and meat, while the majority of the tweets were in direct reference to CFG being released, oftentimes with a link to another webpage, and discussed the intersect between health and food and consumption practices. In conclusion, the analysis revealed how frames emerged from social media users that shifted the discussion away from CFG release and impact to the influence of health and food and a plant versus meat debate.

Media Framing of Larry Nassar and the USA Gymnastics Child Sex Abuse Scandal.

The framing of child sex abuse in media has previously been examined to uncover the potential ways news media could influence public perception about the issue. This mixed methods analysis of the Larry Nassar sex abuse scandal involving USA gymnastics and Michigan State University, grounded in the principles of framing theory, examines the patterns in coverage, as well as the episodic and thematic frames evident in the coverage of the scandal and its victims. Findings fall in line with past research on child sex abuse; framing is done primarily at the episodic level, focusing on the individual responsible, detailed accounts of the abuse of the victims, and isolating the instances of abuse to the specific organizations, while ignoring the broader themes of prevention and societal impacts. Implications for framing, attitudes toward girls and women in sport, and implications for abuse in sport are discussed.

An Assessment of the Validity of an Audio-Video Method of Food Journaling for Dietary Quantity and Quality.

OBJECTIVE: To validate an audio-video (AV) method of food journaling, in a free-living scenario, compared to direct, weighed food assessment. DESIGN AND SETTING: Data were collected in a cafeteria. Meals, selected by participants (n=30), were documented using the AV method: participants video-recorded their tray while audio-recording a description of their selected meal, after which the research team digitally weighed each food item and created an itemized diary record of the food. VARIABLES MEASURED: Data from the AV method and from the weighed food diaries were transcribed and entered into a nutrition software analysis program (Nutribase Pro 10.0). Nutrient outputs were compared between the two methods including kilocalories, macronutrients, and selected micronutrients. ANALYSES: Using mean scores for each variable, Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Spearman's correlation coefficients were conducted. Interclass correlation coefficient (ICC) was calculated for absolute agreement between the two methods to assess interrater reliability. RESULTS: With the exception of Vitamin E and total weight, nutrient values were highly correlated between methods and were statistically significant given alpha = 0.05, power = 0.95, and effect size of 0.70. CONCLUSIONS: The AV method may be a meaningful alternative to diary recording in a free-living setting.

Mass media narratives of women's cardiovascular disease: a qualitative meta-synthesis.

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability among women worldwide. Narratives circulated by the media regarding women's identities and health constitute one source of meanings by which conceptualisations about risk, risk reduction, and disease prevention are formed and framed. An interpretive and integrative meta-synthesis of qualitative research was done to examine the representations of women's cardiovascular disease in traditional and user-generated Canadian and US media narratives, and explore the implications of these for gendered identities and health promotion for women. After a literature search of electronic databases, 29 qualitative peer-reviewed journal articles published since 2000 met the eligibility criteria and were included for review. The findings revealed three overarching themes: (a) the construction of who is at risk for cardiovascular disease; (b) the portrayal of certain risk-reducing strategies and acute events; and (c) the delegation of responsibility for maintaining female cardiovascular health. These meta-synthesis findings contribute towards novel understandings about the culture of women's cardiovascular disease risk and the feminisation of healthism/individual responsibility, which may limit awareness among marginalised female demographics (those from lower socio-economic and minority racial backgrounds).