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Looks, Liveliness, and Laughter: Visual Representations in Commercial Sports for Children
Department of Movement, Culture and Society, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
Department of Movement, Culture and Society, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1230-3415
Stockholms universitet, Barn- och ungdomsvetenskapliga institutionen.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-8684-3724
Department of Movement, Culture and Society, Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
2023 (English)In: International Journal of Sport Communication, ISSN 1936-3915, E-ISSN 1936-3907, Vol. 16, no 2, p. 178-186Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

In contemporary society, visual information is influential, not least when businesses are communicating with potential customers. It represents and influences how people understand phenomena. In sports, much attention is directed toward how media represent elite sports and sport stars. Less attention is directed toward children’s sports. The aim of this article is to explore and analyze visual representations of children on sport businesses’ websites. The sample contained 697 images of sporting children, on which an interpretative content and discourse analysis was conducted. The study shows that the ideal customer emerging on these sites is a White, physically active, able, and slim boy or girl. Consumer culture seems to reproduce and preserve existing normative frameworks rather than producing alternative norms and ideas in children’s sport. Moreover, dilemmatic images of children both as competent and as innocent develop, displaying a childhood that should be both joyful and active but also safeguarded.

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Human Kinetics , 2023. Vol. 16, no 2, p. 178-186
Keywords [en]
symbolic persons, gender, Whiteness, values, norms
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Sport and Fitness Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-45580DOI: 10.1123/ijsc.2022-0202ISI: 000942573400001OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hig-45580DiVA, id: diva2:1898003
Available from: 2024-09-16 Created: 2024-09-16 Last updated: 2025-02-11Bibliographically approved

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