Throughout the last decade, the term “mediatization” has attracted a great deal of attention among a growing number of scholars with an interest in the media and sport nexus (e.g., Frandsen, 2020; Hutchins, 2019; Wenner & Billings, 2017; Whannel, 2013). The term indicates “all the transformations of communicative and social processes (…) which follow from our increasing reliance on technologically and institutionally based processes of mediation” (Couldry & Hepp, 2017, pp. 3–4). When studying mediatization, authors generally focus on the proliferation of communication media and how this influences long-term social change and structural transformations in almost all sectors of modern societies. The aim of this special issue is to introduce mediatization as an analytical concept and phenomenon in relation to sport, and to illustrate how it is culturally contextualized and can therefore play out in different ways. Thus, our intention is to introduce more geographic and cultural diversity to our scholarly knowledge about dependencies between media and sport and to show the consequences these dependencies may have.

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重新发现体育的中介化

在过去十年中，“媒体化”一词引起了越来越多对媒体和体育关系感兴趣的学者的极大关注（例如，Frandsen，2020；Hutchins，2019；Wenner & Billings，2017；Whannel , 2013)。该术语表示“由于我们越来越依赖基于技术和制度的调解过程而导致的交流和社会过程的所有转变（……）”（Couldry & Hepp，2017，第 3-4 页）。在研究中介化时，作者通常关注传播媒体的扩散以及这如何影响现代社会几乎所有部门的长期社会变革和结构转型。本期特刊的目的是将中介化作为一种​​与体育相关的分析概念和现象，并说明它是如何在文化背景下进行的，因此可以以不同的方式发挥作用。因此，我们的目的是在我们关于媒体和体育之间依赖关系的学术知识中引入更多的地理和文化多样性，并展示这些依赖关系可能产生的后果。