Department of Physical Education and Sport, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain.
Departament de Didàctica de l'Expressió Musical, Plàstica i Corporal, University of Valencia, 46022 Valencia, Spain.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Apr 25;18(9):4554. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18094554.
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.
SARS-CoV-2 病毒的传播改变了人们日常生活的许多方面，包括体育。社交网络上充斥着这些问题。本研究旨在分析与体育和 COVID-19 相关的推文。从 2020 年 1 月底到 5 月初，通过 Twitter 搜索 API 下载了超过 400 万条关于这个主题的推文。在删除重复项、副本和转发后，分析了 119,253 条原始推文。使用定量-定性内容分析来研究所选推文。根据 COVID-19 大流行和随后的封锁，有关体育和锻炼的帖子动态发生了变化，从将体育视为健康堡垒转变为与其他活动一样容易感染疾病的活动。大多数媒体专业体育赛事在 Twitter 上受到极大关注，而基层和女子体育则处于次要地位。对确定的 30 个主题的分析侧重于大流行对体育的社会、体育、经济和健康影响。体育赛事取消、休闲时间和社交活动中断、俱乐部破产、体育训练和运动员不确定的职业发展是主要关注点。尽管分析中的推文中出现了一般健康措施，但针对体育锻炼的措施相对较少。最后，这项研究表明了 Twitter 作为传达社会对体育和 COVID-19 的态度的一种手段的重要性，以及它在大流行的未来阶段产生替代反应的潜力。
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