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The Paralympic Games are considered to be the second biggest sporting event in the world, after t... more The Paralympic Games are considered to be the second biggest sporting event in the world, after the Summer Olympic Games, however, research on the media coverage of athletes with disabilities is in its infancy. More specifically, there is a lack of studies focusing on whether quantitative and qualitative differences exist in the manner in which the female and male Paralympic athletes are represented in the print media. In contrast, there is an extensive body of scholarly research on the differential media treatment of female and male Olympic athletes. This article includes three aspects: (1) a brief summary of the media coverage of non-disabled female athletes, with the aim of providing some research indicators that could be used in analogous studies of Paralympic sport; (2) the examination of the limited media literature on the portrayals of female and male Paralympic athletes; and (3) a discussion of possible future research in this relatively unexplored, area of media, gender and Paralympic sport.

The hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOPG) brought with it detailed legac... more The hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOPG) brought with it detailed legacy plans aiming to ‘Inspire a Generation’. The idea that hosting a sports mega-event will encourage the host population to engage in more physical activity is commonly used by governments to justify the large investments they make. The aim of this research paper was to investigate the impact that hosting the 2012 Games had on grass-root sports participation within the host nation. This paper focuses on two non-traditional English sports, Fencing and Judo and investigated the changes in mass sports participation. The membership rate analysis of our sample highlighted an overall increase in participation between 2007 and 2013, in both Judo and Fencing. The data gathered from the interviews with the head office staff at the National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and local club coaches suggested that the grass-root participation programmes were the most effective way of increasing participation, rather than the reliance, solely on the inspiration effect from hosting the LOPG itself. The study highlighted the importance of strengthening communication between local voluntary clubs and the NGB, to ensure sports could promote themselves and capitalise on this global sporting phenomenon, which provided unprecedented media coverage and opportunities for these non-traditional sports. This case study provides initial results relating to the effect that a major international multi-sport event can have in the development of non-traditional sports in the host population, in terms of membership variations, participation programmes and organisational dynamics.

Pappous, A. (2011). Do the Olympic Games lead to a Sustainable Increase in Grassroots Sport Participation? In J. Savery & K. Gilbert (Eds.), Sustainability and Sport (pp.81-89). Chicago: Common Ground Publishing.

Hosting the Olympic Games is a notoriously expensive operation, and the International Olympic Com... more Hosting the Olympic Games is a notoriously expensive operation, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and host national governments have to justify the huge cost and investments. The Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games (2004 Games) had an overall cost to the Organising Committee of US $11 billion, almost double the initial stated budget. In this book chapter, secondary sources from Eurobarometer surveys are used to examine whether grassroots sport participation of the Greek population was boosted as a result of hosting the 2004 Games.

Cet article présente trois analyses, réalisées séparément par trois chercheurs, d’une même photog... more Cet article présente trois analyses, réalisées séparément par trois chercheurs, d’une même photographie de presse sportive, prise par Bob Martin (photojournaliste sportif) lors des Jeux Paralympiques d’Athènes en 2004. La première, dans une approche sociologique, compare la photo étudiée à celles d’un corpus diachronique des photographies de natation Handisport produites en France. La deuxième, plus sémiotique, porte un regard synchronique en situant l’image dans la chaîne rhétorique de la photographie sportive et dans la production même du photographe. La troisième rapproche la composition de l’image à la thèse de la liminalité des personnes handicapées, symbolisant la place sociale qui leur est assignée. Ce travail, issu d’une rencontre dans le cadre d’un séminaire méthodologique interdisciplinaire, vise à une réflexion épistémologique et méthodologique sur les conditions d’utilisation des images en sciences sociales et plus particulièrement sur la richesse, l’intérêt et les limites de leur utilisation comme données-sources dans l’étude des représentations sociales des personnes dites « handicapées » et de leur évolution.

Au moment où, grâce aux avancées thérapeutiques, la question de la qualité de vie des personnes v... more Au moment où, grâce aux avancées thérapeutiques, la question de la qualité de vie des personnes vivants avec le VIH (PVVIH) est l’objet de plus en plus de préoccupations, aucune étude spécifique n’a été menée sur la manière dont l’accès à la pratique physique et sportive est affecté par la séropositivité ou, autrement dit, sur la manière dont l’expérience de la séropositivité influe sur les usages du sport et le rapport aux activités physiques.

RES 66. Psicología clínica y situaciones violencia by Sakis Pappous

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2018

Culture is a key element in determining emotions that people experience when facing death. Recent... more Culture is a key element in determining emotions that people experience when facing death. Recent studies revealed a specific emotion schema for the affective response to death (in comparison with unpleasant/violence-related stimulus), influenced by differences in the personalities and learning processes of the individuals, on the one hand, and differences in the cultural and social contexts of the two groups, on the other. The objective of the research was to compare the English participants’ affective response to pictures of death to those of the Spanish participants, who viewed other types of affective pictures (pleasant, unpleasant/violence-related and neutral). A total of 38 young adults took part in an emotional assessment using a set of pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) database. They indicated the values of valence, arousal and dominance for each affective image. The results show that the images related to death were less unpleasant and caused a lower activation in the English population, while there were no differences in the two group’s responses to unpleasant/violent images.

La cultura es un elemento clave para determinar las emociones que experimentan las personas cuando enfrentan la muerte. Estudios recientes han mostrado la existencia de un esquema emocional específico ante la muerte (en comparación con estímulos emocionales desagradables o relacionados con la violencia) influenciado por las diferencias individuales, el aprendizaje, así como los contextos sociales y culturales. El objetivo de la investigación fue comparar la respuesta afectiva de dos grupos de participantes (ingleses y españoles) ante diferentes tipos de imágenes afectivas (agradables, desagradables/relacionadas con la violencia, relacionadas con la muerte y neutras). Un total de 38 adultos jóvenes participaron en una evaluación emocional usando un conjunto de imágenes procedentes del International Affective Picture System (IAPS). Indicaron los valores de valencia, activación y dominancia para cada imagen. Los resultados muestran que las imágenes relacionadas con la muerte fueron menos desagradables y provocaron menos activación para la población inglesa, mientras que no hubo diferencias en las imágenes desagradables/violentas entre los grupos.

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The Paralympic Games are considered to be the second biggest sporting event in the world, after t... more The Paralympic Games are considered to be the second biggest sporting event in the world, after the Summer Olympic Games, however, research on the media coverage of athletes with disabilities is in its infancy. More specifically, there is a lack of studies focusing on whether quantitative and qualitative differences exist in the manner in which the female and male Paralympic athletes are represented in the print media. In contrast, there is an extensive body of scholarly research on the differential media treatment of female and male Olympic athletes. This article includes three aspects: (1) a brief summary of the media coverage of non-disabled female athletes, with the aim of providing some research indicators that could be used in analogous studies of Paralympic sport; (2) the examination of the limited media literature on the portrayals of female and male Paralympic athletes; and (3) a discussion of possible future research in this relatively unexplored, area of media, gender and Paralympic sport.

The hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOPG) brought with it detailed legac... more The hosting of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOPG) brought with it detailed legacy plans aiming to ‘Inspire a Generation’. The idea that hosting a sports mega-event will encourage the host population to engage in more physical activity is commonly used by governments to justify the large investments they make. The aim of this research paper was to investigate the impact that hosting the 2012 Games had on grass-root sports participation within the host nation. This paper focuses on two non-traditional English sports, Fencing and Judo and investigated the changes in mass sports participation. The membership rate analysis of our sample highlighted an overall increase in participation between 2007 and 2013, in both Judo and Fencing. The data gathered from the interviews with the head office staff at the National Governing Bodies (NGBs) and local club coaches suggested that the grass-root participation programmes were the most effective way of increasing participation, rather than the reliance, solely on the inspiration effect from hosting the LOPG itself. The study highlighted the importance of strengthening communication between local voluntary clubs and the NGB, to ensure sports could promote themselves and capitalise on this global sporting phenomenon, which provided unprecedented media coverage and opportunities for these non-traditional sports. This case study provides initial results relating to the effect that a major international multi-sport event can have in the development of non-traditional sports in the host population, in terms of membership variations, participation programmes and organisational dynamics.

Pappous, A. (2011). Do the Olympic Games lead to a Sustainable Increase in Grassroots Sport Participation? In J. Savery & K. Gilbert (Eds.), Sustainability and Sport (pp.81-89). Chicago: Common Ground Publishing.

Hosting the Olympic Games is a notoriously expensive operation, and the International Olympic Com... more Hosting the Olympic Games is a notoriously expensive operation, and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and host national governments have to justify the huge cost and investments. The Athens 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games (2004 Games) had an overall cost to the Organising Committee of US $11 billion, almost double the initial stated budget. In this book chapter, secondary sources from Eurobarometer surveys are used to examine whether grassroots sport participation of the Greek population was boosted as a result of hosting the 2004 Games.

Cet article présente trois analyses, réalisées séparément par trois chercheurs, d’une même photog... more Cet article présente trois analyses, réalisées séparément par trois chercheurs, d’une même photographie de presse sportive, prise par Bob Martin (photojournaliste sportif) lors des Jeux Paralympiques d’Athènes en 2004. La première, dans une approche sociologique, compare la photo étudiée à celles d’un corpus diachronique des photographies de natation Handisport produites en France. La deuxième, plus sémiotique, porte un regard synchronique en situant l’image dans la chaîne rhétorique de la photographie sportive et dans la production même du photographe. La troisième rapproche la composition de l’image à la thèse de la liminalité des personnes handicapées, symbolisant la place sociale qui leur est assignée. Ce travail, issu d’une rencontre dans le cadre d’un séminaire méthodologique interdisciplinaire, vise à une réflexion épistémologique et méthodologique sur les conditions d’utilisation des images en sciences sociales et plus particulièrement sur la richesse, l’intérêt et les limites de leur utilisation comme données-sources dans l’étude des représentations sociales des personnes dites « handicapées » et de leur évolution.

Au moment où, grâce aux avancées thérapeutiques, la question de la qualité de vie des personnes v... more Au moment où, grâce aux avancées thérapeutiques, la question de la qualité de vie des personnes vivants avec le VIH (PVVIH) est l’objet de plus en plus de préoccupations, aucune étude spécifique n’a été menée sur la manière dont l’accès à la pratique physique et sportive est affecté par la séropositivité ou, autrement dit, sur la manière dont l’expérience de la séropositivité influe sur les usages du sport et le rapport aux activités physiques.

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2018

Culture is a key element in determining emotions that people experience when facing death. Recent... more Culture is a key element in determining emotions that people experience when facing death. Recent studies revealed a specific emotion schema for the affective response to death (in comparison with unpleasant/violence-related stimulus), influenced by differences in the personalities and learning processes of the individuals, on the one hand, and differences in the cultural and social contexts of the two groups, on the other. The objective of the research was to compare the English participants’ affective response to pictures of death to those of the Spanish participants, who viewed other types of affective pictures (pleasant, unpleasant/violence-related and neutral). A total of 38 young adults took part in an emotional assessment using a set of pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) database. They indicated the values of valence, arousal and dominance for each affective image. The results show that the images related to death were less unpleasant and caused a lower activation in the English population, while there were no differences in the two group’s responses to unpleasant/violent images.

La cultura es un elemento clave para determinar las emociones que experimentan las personas cuando enfrentan la muerte. Estudios recientes han mostrado la existencia de un esquema emocional específico ante la muerte (en comparación con estímulos emocionales desagradables o relacionados con la violencia) influenciado por las diferencias individuales, el aprendizaje, así como los contextos sociales y culturales. El objetivo de la investigación fue comparar la respuesta afectiva de dos grupos de participantes (ingleses y españoles) ante diferentes tipos de imágenes afectivas (agradables, desagradables/relacionadas con la violencia, relacionadas con la muerte y neutras). Un total de 38 adultos jóvenes participaron en una evaluación emocional usando un conjunto de imágenes procedentes del International Affective Picture System (IAPS). Indicaron los valores de valencia, activación y dominancia para cada imagen. Los resultados muestran que las imágenes relacionadas con la muerte fueron menos desagradables y provocaron menos activación para la población inglesa, mientras que no hubo diferencias en las imágenes desagradables/violentas entre los grupos.