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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2021

The Impact of COVID-19 on Sport in Twitter: A Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis.

Luis-Millán González, José Devís-Devís, Maite Pellicer-Chenoll, Miquel Pans, Alberto Pardo-Ibañez, Xavier García-Massó, Fernanda Peset, Fernanda Garzón-Farinós, Víctor Pérez-Samaniego

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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Luis-Millán GonzálezDepartment of Physical Education and Sport, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6478-4014
José Devís-DevísDepartment of Physical Education and Sport, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-4599-3782
Maite Pellicer-ChenollDepartment of Physical Education and Sport, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
Miquel PansDepartment of Physical Education and Sport, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-0763-1879
Alberto Pardo-IbañezDepartment of Physical Education and Sport, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
Xavier García-MassóDepartament de Didàctica de l'Expressió Musical, Plàstica i Corporal, University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-5925-4537
Fernanda PesetInstituto Universitario de Matemática Pura y Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.
Fernanda Garzón-FarinósDepartamento de Bioestadística, Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir, Quevedo 2, 46001 Valencia, Spain.
Víctor Pérez-SamaniegoDepartment of Physical Education and Sport, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has transformed many aspects of people's daily life, including sports. Social networks have been flooded on these issues. The present study aims to analyze the tweets produced relating to sports and COVID-19. From the end of January to the beginning of May 2020, over 4,000,000 tweets on this subject were downloaded through the Twitter search API. Once the duplicates, replicas, and retweets were removed, 119,253 original tweets were analyzed. A quantitative-qualitative content analysis was used to study the selected tweets. Posts dynamics regarding sport and exercise evolved according to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdown, shifting from considering sport as a healthy bastion to an activity exposed to disease like any other. Most media professional sporting events received great attention on Twitter, while grassroots and women's sport were relegated to a residual role. The analysis of the 30 topics identified focused on the social, sporting, economic and health impact of the pandemic on the sport. Sporting cancellations, leisure time and socialization disruptions, club bankruptcies, sports training and athletes' uncertain career development were the main concerns. Although general health measures appeared in the tweets analyzed, those addressed to sports practice were relatively scarce. Finally, this study shows the importance of Twitter as a means of conveying social attitudes towards sports and COVID-19 and its potential to generate alternative responses in future stages of the pandemic.

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COVID-19Social MediaCommunicable Disease ControlHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2COVID-19latent Dirichlet allocationmixed methodssporttext miningTwitter

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PMID33923042
PMCPMC8123335

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