1.If you love books and more
information about them, then I recommend you visiting Valeria Dimova’s blog (http://valeriadimova29.blogspot.cz/)
. In this blog comments on different books are given and you can find some
amazing books to read in near future. I am now inspired to read “Lolita” by
Vladimir Nabokov ;)
2.Nowadays fans of different celebrities
are getting more and more out of control. Aneta Zadražilová in her blog (http://azadrazilova.wordpress.com/)
discusses this issue as The Celebrity Worship Syndrome. This shows one of the
problems among youngsters that media could lead to.
3.Do you have Facebook, Twitter, or
other social network account? Did you notice that they are becoming a big part
of our lives and most of us could not help it? Then you have to look on Tomas
Horak’s blog (http://mobsocmed.blogspot.cz/)
, where he discusses the issues of social networks.
4.In every class that I have at
university I see people playing with their phones, laptops, and tablets. I
consider that people have done this at least two times in their lives. Maryam
Rasouli discusses the issues and effects of technology on our education in her
blog (http://technology-vs-education.blogspot.cz/)
.
5.McDolnads, KFC, Burger King, and
others of that ilk are considered as drugs for children today. In the blog by
Daniela Slezakova (http://thelossthegain.wordpress.com/)
the influence of media on children’s obesity is discussed.
Throughout
the centuries, sport was one of the most popular activities in the world. The interest
in sports is increasing enormously on annual basis. People are attending
training for different purposes: stay healthy, stay fit, achieve targets, or
simply fill their spare time in a wholesome way. Moreover, people enjoy
observing sports and supporting their favorite team on all competitions. Many
years ago people were ought to go on stadiums and feel the atmosphere of the
competition. Nevertheless, currently people prefer spending this time at their
houses and watching competitions or others of that ilk trough TV or internet.
Does media give a chance to people to watch competitions if they are not able
to do it, or it makes people more idle? Media has an enormous influence on
sports nowadays; however, it affects differently on people.
On the one
hand, there are young athletes that might go on competition overseas, and their
parents are looking forward seeing them performing and competing, but they are
not able to go with them. Here media makes its own work. They can still be informed
through any mean of media. Depending on competition there are streams happening
on TV or internet. Moreover, disabled and underprivileged people also want to support
their favorite teams. Media saves the day once again.
Nevertheless,
in order to watch a football game, which takes place in the same city in which
one does live, he prefers to watch it at home, lying on a couch, with beer. A few
people say that they are scared to face with the congestion of the near-by
traffic of the stadiums, since, a large number of other people also want to go
to see the match on time; you have to park your car, which is probably not near
to the stadium. Hence, you have to walk a quite long distance and be in the
crowd of elbowing people. In my opinion, government has to consider this
situation and make it more convenient to people go to the match. In that way we
will probably be less idle and more mobile.
In addition,
mass media creates sport stars in the world. Do you know who was the best
football player 100 years ago and how did he look like? Probably not. Media
emphasized Beckham, Messi, Ronaldo and others. These people can be seen in
various ads, films, music videos. On my own experience, I know a few athletes
only by means of media. Furthermore, media uses the strongest football players
in order to promote a particular product or film.
How do social
networks promote sports? Jenifer Beese (2012) says that “according to recent
data, more than 80 percent of sports fans interact with social media sites
while watching games on TV, and more than 60 percent do so while watching live
events”. She also highlights that after a particular circumstances, athletes
start gaining followers on Twitter with incredible speed (Beese, 2012).
In conclusion,
media nowadays influence on everything in the world. By affecting on sports, it
affects us. Nonetheless, we cannot make any decision or find solutions from
escaping this it, even though it has a negative effect on us. However, we can attempt
to be less influenced by supporting our teams on the stadiums and going in for
sports by ourselves.
In this video Erik Michielsen talks about media impact on sports:
References:
Beese,
J. (n.d.). Stats: How Social Media Has Changed the World of Sports. Social
Media Management Software for Business | Sprout Social. Retrieved May 13,
2013, from http://sproutsocial.com/insights/2012/04/sports-social-media/
How Social Media Impacts Sports Marketing - Mike Germano - YouTube. (n.d.). YouTube. Retrieved May 13, 2013, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqHzSRS7uOU
"Watching sports at home or at the stadium?." Free English Tests for ESL/EFL, TOEFL®, TOEIC®, SAT®, GRE®, GMAT®. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 May 2013. <http://www.english-test.net/forum/ftopic65839.html>.
Here are 3 websites, from different areas of sports:
1.If you need to keep track of sport
events, I recommend you visiting http://www.bleacherreport.com/. This
webpage does not only provide all necessary information for big sport fans, it
also emphasizes an intelligent commentary on debates that were not considered
as important disputes. You can also find an engaging environment for every user
hoping to speak his or her mind on a provocative news items.
2.Want to learn more about sports
psychology? Then http://www.appliedsportpsych.org
will help you. It provides mental training for athletes, their parents,
coaches, and different researches made on that.
3.If you are going in for sports,
professional or amateur, you probably had an injury. http://www.sportsinjuryclinic.net/
will help you to deal with all your physical issues. It checks your symptoms
and suggests you different clinical centers where you can have rehabilitation.
Parents are
taking their children to sports in order to see them developing in physical way
as well.But what happens when it turns
out that parents have to sacrifice big money for that? It discourages a big
number of families. In Canada hockey is popular sport, but very expensive meanwhile.Kristina Rutherford in her article from CBC is attempting to find out how to
prevent collapse of hockey in Canada.
Rutherford
(2009) found Gibblett family where all three brothers: Dyllon, Ryley, Joshua
are going on hockey, because their father is working very hard on it. Bu what
about others? What about families, which sons are striving to be in a hockey
team and their parents are not capable of paying for them?
Registration
fee is 2,000$, equipment 1,000$, and particular sum of money for travel, where rooms
and meals are also included. This is the reason why soccer in Canada starts surpassing
hockey.Gardner and Casey are suppose
that increasing ice time fees are guilty for significantly rising registration
prices (Rutherford, 2009).
Athletics for
Kids and West Van Minor suggests a help to families to get their children into
sports, by financing registration for children before eight and accepting
payments trough credit card. That is how Gibblett’s children are able to attend
hockey trainings and helps them follow their dream. He said "I don't know
how, but you just make it work. I don't think about it, I just do it. I know
hockey's costly, but it's worth it. The boys love it” (Rutherford, 2009).
References:
Rutherford, K. (n.d.). Is the cost keeping kids out of minor hockey? Absolutely, players and parents say. CBC.ca - Canadian News Sports Entertainment Kids Docs Radio TV. Retrieved May 11, 2013, from http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/ourgame/story/2009/01/16/hockey-costs-too-much.html
