XX World Masters Athletics Championship: representations of elderly athlete on the media
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https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2015v18i3p245-264Keywords:
Elderly, Athletics, Sport Master.Abstract
This study aimed to analyze how the elderly athletes who participated in the 20th World Athletics Championship Master, occurred in 2013 in the city of Porto Alegre (RS), were represented by the media. The document analysis revealed that, the elderly were portrayed with apparent positivity and sensationalism. Such representations were supported by the atmosphere unleashed by the own event with international dimension.
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2015-09-30
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Ledur, J. A., Mazo, J. Z., & Gonçalves, A. K. (2015). XX World Masters Athletics Championship: representations of elderly athlete on the media. Revista Kairós-Gerontologia, 18(3), 245–264. https://doi.org/10.23925/2176-901X.2015v18i3p245-264
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