Students learn about:

• The relationship between sport and the mass media
  • The representation of sport in the media
  • Economic considerations of media coverage and sport
    
    
• Deconstructing media messages, images and amount of coverage
  • Differences in coverage for different sports across various print and electronic media
  • The emergence of extreme sports as entertainment, eg big wave surfing.

Students learn to:

• Think critically about the impact of the mass media on sport by investigating questions such as:
  • Who benefits and in what ways?
  • How does the media influence our understanding of sporting events?
  • How have sports been changed to suit the needs of the media, eg uniforms, rule modifications, structure to accommodate advertising breaks
• Analyse the media’s role in giving meanings to sport by considering questions such as:
  • How does the coverage given to particular sports reflect which sports are valued and which ones are not?
  • What metaphors are common in sport, eg football as ‘war’?
  • Has the media pushed extreme sports to take excessive risks?

Extract from PDHPE Stage 6 Syllabus. © 2009 Board of Studies NSW.