Brigid Mccarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4220580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brigid Mccarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brigid |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY B |
| AFFILIATIONS | La Trobe University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1375-6726 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From Seasoned Vet to Space-Taker: Gendered Ageism in Coverage of Professional Basketball Player Diana Taurasi’s Final Season
This study examined coverage of 42-year-old professional basketball player Diana Taurasi during her final WNBA season. Age remains an underexplored element of identity in sports media research. An analysis informed by intersectionality found that media discourse made age meaningful through gendered norms of athletic value, constructing Taurasi through narratives of both exceptionalism and decline. This was produced through portrayals of Taurasi a…
Policing the “Russian diva: Gymnastics Broadcasts and the Idealisation of the Girl-Child Athlete
This paper examines the "Russian diva," a label used by media within specific periods of Women's Artistic Gymnastics.In using it, broadcasters created rival gymnastics femininities and reinforced gymnastics' gender norms by rendering the rebellious and emotional diva as a behavioural anomaly and the disciplined US girlchild as the behavioural ideal.This created a symbolic, two-fold marginalisation whereby self-determination and emotional displays…
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders
This paper analyses news media coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic skateboarding competition, which paid significant and celebratory attention to the extraordinary youth of the medallists in the women’s disciplines. The coverage was marked by a postfeminist sensibility that constituted the girl-child skater via a ubiquitous and enduring girl power discourse, and idealised them as sites of extraordinary feminine capacity. These narratives located g…
Who unlocked the kitchen: Online misogyny, YouTube comments and women's professional street skateboarding
Abuse and harassment of sportswomen has become a global issue. And while the sportification of skateboarding has increased professional opportunities and media visibility for women athletes, it has also resulted in misogyny and gendered abuse on online platforms where competition coverage is posted. This study examines comments that collectively target competitors in YouTube streams of major professional women’s street skating competitions. Exami…
Reinvention Through CrossFit: Branded Transformation Documentaries
This article analyses a set of branded promotional documentaries from the CrossFit YouTube channel, which depict new participants as they transition into a CrossFit lifestyle. These documentaries share narrative elements of reality makeover television’s hybrid entertainment/educational format, deploying popular tropes of reinvention and personal empowerment through guided consumption. In focusing largely on participants dealing with chronic healt…
Consuming sports media, producing sports media: An analysis of two fan sports blogospheres
The fan sports blogger, a sports fan who contributes their own narratives to the quotidian reportage of sports by publishing an online sports news site on platforms like Blogger and Wordpress, is a relatively new fan presence. The scant research devoted to this nascent culture has questioned its potential impact on mainstream sports media, or the blogging behaviour of sports entities, but little yet is understood about the output and information-…
A Sports Journalism of Their Own: An Investigation Into the Motivations, Behaviours, and Media Attitudes of Fan Sports Bloggers
This article relates the findings of a questionnaire investigating the motivations and attitudes of fan sports bloggers who take on the cultural labour of mainstream media by reporting and commentating on quotidian sports performances. Part of a larger, multimethod comparative case study, it investigates the attitudes of bloggers of a niche and nonniche sport toward the output of mainstream media. While these bloggers differed in terms of output …
Who unlocked the kitchen: Online misogyny, YouTube comments and women's professional street skateboarding
Abuse and harassment of sportswomen has become a global issue. And while the sportification of skateboarding has increased professional opportunities and media visibility for women athletes, it has also resulted in misogyny and gendered abuse on online platforms where competition coverage is posted. This study examines comments that collectively target competitors in YouTube streams of major professional women’s street skating competitions. Exami…
A Sports Journalism of Their Own: An Investigation Into the Motivations, Behaviours, and Media Attitudes of Fan Sports Bloggers
This article relates the findings of a questionnaire investigating the motivations and attitudes of fan sports bloggers who take on the cultural labour of mainstream media by reporting and commentating on quotidian sports performances. Part of a larger, multimethod comparative case study, it investigates the attitudes of bloggers of a niche and nonniche sport toward the output of mainstream media. While these bloggers differed in terms of output …
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders
This paper analyses news media coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic skateboarding competition, which paid significant and celebratory attention to the extraordinary youth of the medallists in the women’s disciplines. The coverage was marked by a postfeminist sensibility that constituted the girl-child skater via a ubiquitous and enduring girl power discourse, and idealised them as sites of extraordinary feminine capacity. These narratives located g…
Reinvention Through CrossFit: Branded Transformation Documentaries
This article analyses a set of branded promotional documentaries from the CrossFit YouTube channel, which depict new participants as they transition into a CrossFit lifestyle. These documentaries share narrative elements of reality makeover television’s hybrid entertainment/educational format, deploying popular tropes of reinvention and personal empowerment through guided consumption. In focusing largely on participants dealing with chronic healt…
Consuming sports media, producing sports media: An analysis of two fan sports blogospheres
The fan sports blogger, a sports fan who contributes their own narratives to the quotidian reportage of sports by publishing an online sports news site on platforms like Blogger and Wordpress, is a relatively new fan presence. The scant research devoted to this nascent culture has questioned its potential impact on mainstream sports media, or the blogging behaviour of sports entities, but little yet is understood about the output and information-…
A Sports Journalism of Their Own: An Investigation Into the Motivations, Behaviours, and Media Attitudes of Fan Sports Bloggers
This article relates the findings of a questionnaire investigating the motivations and attitudes of fan sports bloggers who take on the cultural labour of mainstream media by reporting and commentating on quotidian sports performances. Part of a larger, multimethod comparative case study, it investigates the attitudes of bloggers of a niche and nonniche sport toward the output of mainstream media. While these bloggers differed in terms of output …
Consuming sports media, producing sports media: An analysis of two fan sports blogospheres
The fan sports blogger, a sports fan who contributes their own narratives to the quotidian reportage of sports by publishing an online sports news site on platforms like Blogger and Wordpress, is a relatively new fan presence. The scant research devoted to this nascent culture has questioned its potential impact on mainstream sports media, or the blogging behaviour of sports entities, but little yet is understood about the output and information-…
Reinvention Through CrossFit: Branded Transformation Documentaries
This article analyses a set of branded promotional documentaries from the CrossFit YouTube channel, which depict new participants as they transition into a CrossFit lifestyle. These documentaries share narrative elements of reality makeover television’s hybrid entertainment/educational format, deploying popular tropes of reinvention and personal empowerment through guided consumption. In focusing largely on participants dealing with chronic healt…
Who unlocked the kitchen: Online misogyny, YouTube comments and women's professional street skateboarding
Abuse and harassment of sportswomen has become a global issue. And while the sportification of skateboarding has increased professional opportunities and media visibility for women athletes, it has also resulted in misogyny and gendered abuse on online platforms where competition coverage is posted. This study examines comments that collectively target competitors in YouTube streams of major professional women’s street skating competitions. Exami…
Girl Power and Brand Power: Postfeminist Sensibility in News Coverage of Tokyo’s Girl “Prodigy” Skateboarders
This paper analyses news media coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic skateboarding competition, which paid significant and celebratory attention to the extraordinary youth of the medallists in the women’s disciplines. The coverage was marked by a postfeminist sensibility that constituted the girl-child skater via a ubiquitous and enduring girl power discourse, and idealised them as sites of extraordinary feminine capacity. These narratives located g…
Policing the “Russian diva: Gymnastics Broadcasts and the Idealisation of the Girl-Child Athlete
This paper examines the "Russian diva," a label used by media within specific periods of Women's Artistic Gymnastics.In using it, broadcasters created rival gymnastics femininities and reinforced gymnastics' gender norms by rendering the rebellious and emotional diva as a behavioural anomaly and the disciplined US girlchild as the behavioural ideal.This created a symbolic, two-fold marginalisation whereby self-determination and emotional displays…
From Seasoned Vet to Space-Taker: Gendered Ageism in Coverage of Professional Basketball Player Diana Taurasi’s Final Season
This study examined coverage of 42-year-old professional basketball player Diana Taurasi during her final WNBA season. Age remains an underexplored element of identity in sports media research. An analysis informed by intersectionality found that media discourse made age meaningful through gendered norms of athletic value, constructing Taurasi through narratives of both exceptionalism and decline. This was produced through portrayals of Taurasi a…
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