Gender Ideologies In Sports

Along with social media showing all positive things that athletes involve themselves in, there is also the impact it has on gender ideology. Gender ideology is a term that refers to the interrelated ideas and beliefs that are commonly used to define masculinity and femininity in a culture. There are three dominant gender ideologies, but one of the common ideologies that is often scrutinized is the belief that men are physically stronger and more rational than women, therefore, men are more naturally suited to possess power and assume leadership positions in society (Coakley 14). Social media is a popular electronic news medium for informing the public about recent news or events. News can be uploaded the instant an event occurred and the public
Although they have a sense of control on what they see, they actually do not because the content was created by a limited amount of power sources. The most followed sports news accounts on twitter are sportscenter and ESPN with over thirty million followers. The information they post is retweeted or further talked about by smaller sport news accounts, such as bleacher report with three and a half million followers (Twitter). The main media companies decide what is published to the mass followers and the audience receives the information as re-presented. The owners of the media decide what images and messages are sent to the public and this has an influence on cultural
From the information that is available, we are able to notice that certain factors, such as age, play a key role in determining whether social media does in fact increase, or decrease activity level. When children are selected as the audience to information on social media, they have imaginative minds that will copy what they see and in return make opportunity to do so. They will imitate famous athletes by joining youth sport programs, or interact in informal activities, in attempts to pursue the media inspired dreams of becoming a famous athlete one day. Unfortunately, participation among adolescence begins to decline as they discover the dedication and physical demands needed to reach success at the highest level and fame in sports (Coakley