Mohammad Faraji; Seyyed Jafar Moosavi; Farshad Emami
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of personal branding of professional athletes on Instagram on sports immigration. Descriptive research method of the type of correlation and necessary information was obtained using library studies and two questionnaires: 1. Personal brand of professional ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of personal branding of professional athletes on Instagram on sports immigration. Descriptive research method of the type of correlation and necessary information was obtained using library studies and two questionnaires: 1. Personal brand of professional athletes Faraji et al.(2021), 2. Reasons for immigration of elite athletes, Bagheri et al. (2019). The statistical population is all professional athletes active on Instagram, and using Cochran's formula for an unlimited population, the number of 384 sample people was purposefully determined. The face and content validity of the questionnaires were approved by the professors and its reliability was also confirmed using Cronbach's alpha test. The results showed that personal branding has an effect on sports immigration, as it explains about 20% of the causes of sports immigration. According to the value of beta coefficient, the amount of this effect was 0.446. Among the four factors of personal brand; ethical and political factors of the brand had a significant effect on immigration, and personal and functional factors had no effect. Also, the personal branding of athletes has had an effect on the social, economic, political and professional aspects of sports immigration, respectively. Social networks enable athletes to influence the immigration process in a digital space. Immigration is made up of several layers of athletes, owners, managers, representatives, officials and members of the media and it includes not only economic factors through marketing strategies, but also political, historical, geographical, social and cultural factors.
Sports Media
abdolreza savar; Farshad Emami; Seyyed Jafar Moosavi
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The purpose of this research was to present the national identity model of sports heroes based on the evolution of digital media. The research method was mixed exploratory and was carried out in two parts, quantitative and qualitative. In the qualitative section, the main and sub-themes were identified ...
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The purpose of this research was to present the national identity model of sports heroes based on the evolution of digital media. The research method was mixed exploratory and was carried out in two parts, quantitative and qualitative. In the qualitative section, the main and sub-themes were identified through thematic analysis, and in the quantitative section, the fit of the model was investigated using SPSS and SmartPLS software through confirmatory factor analysis. University managers and professors familiar with the field of national identity of the statistical community formed the qualitative part of the research, and 13 of them, who were selected by the snowball method, were interviewed. In the quantitative part, the statistical population was all athletes, 140 of whom were selected as available samples and answered the questions of the questionnaire extracted from the interviews. The results of the analysis of the interviews showed a total of 32 items in 5 religious, political, cultural, historical and social dimensions as components of the athletes' national identity. In the quantitative part, the results showed that the research model has a good fit. As a conclusion, it can be said that the athletes of our country should pay attention to the dimensions of national identity and take steps in line with the development and strengthening of national identity.