Sports Media
SeyedAhad Hashemian; Hamid Ghasemi; Masoome Hosseini
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to investigate the concept of media power and to obtain operational strategies to adopt new ways of using media in sports development. This is a qualitative research that was conducted using Grounded Theory and Strauss and Corbin's approach. The statistical population ...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the concept of media power and to obtain operational strategies to adopt new ways of using media in sports development. This is a qualitative research that was conducted using Grounded Theory and Strauss and Corbin's approach. The statistical population of the research included 14 experts in the field of sports and media management and experienced specialists in the field of sports media, and to collect data, targeted sampling was used with semi-structured interview method and reaching theoretical saturation. Data analysis was carried out through three stages of open coding, central coding, and selective coding, with an emphasis on media power sources as the central phenomenon and subcategories, causal, contextual, intervening conditions, consequences, and strategies. In order to ensure the validity and reliability of the research, the interviews with some people were repeated several times and the results in several stages were seen by several experienced professors and interviewees, and in the meantime, the focus groups of the participants in the research were also used. Based on the results obtained from the research, media acquisition, audience persuasion,, media specialization and legal support were identified as causal conditions and the ability to flow, demand, generate income, build trust, authority, legitimacy, transparency and the type of media ownership as underlying factors and the intervening factors to Two categories of facilitators and obstacles of media power in sports development were identified.