Parisa Jaferi; Rahim Ramzani Nejhad
Abstract
The purpose of the current research is to analyze quantitative content and the process of printed articles of media in sports in Iran's periodical journals. For this purpose, all of the printed articles in the periodical journals of sports management and institute for scientific information (Iran's academic ...
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The purpose of the current research is to analyze quantitative content and the process of printed articles of media in sports in Iran's periodical journals. For this purpose, all of the printed articles in the periodical journals of sports management and institute for scientific information (Iran's academic center for education) were reviewed and finally, 51 articles were published in the field of sports media. The tool used here was a coded checklist of article contents which was validated by sport management specialists and two coders were used to ensure its reliability. After the final agreement, they were analyzed using inferential and descriptive statistics (Chi-squared test). The findings showed that 2020 has the most articles published in this scope (37.25%), and most of the researches are done using a practical approach (82.35%). The research method of most of the articles was a survey and quantitative method (64.7%) and most of the researches is done using comparative statistical methods and T-test (16.66%). Most of the authors were among academic experts (21.5%) and television had the most frequency of research (31.37%). The results of the Chi-squared test showed that there is a significant difference between the number of published articles in the field of sports media based on the type of the media and the number of published articles in the field of sports media based on the data analysis methods which indicates the breadth of sports media in researches.