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

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 profession

SUBMITTER: Gonzalez LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8123335 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature