Why New Media Changed Sports

New Media has been a new developing way to advance the coverage of
sports. New Media has been a essential to the growth of sports. It has
created great advancements in interactions between players and fans
along a increase speed and volume.
The introduction of the Internet has the created the ability for
unlimited volume, the ability to write as much as you want to get your
point across. Furthermore you are able to document all articles and
proof as well as the addition of links and videos. The ability also
gave the opportunity for average citizens to write and post their
thoughts for everyone to see and read. This power increased views of
situations and the power of speech. It has increased jobs and
opportunity for many people. The major ability to write as much as you
want when ever you want. The term “blog” was created. “Bloggers” began
to create jobs and work for high quality companies like ESPN, CBC, TSN
etc.
The addition of interactivity and interaction with people became the
main factor why New Media has increased so rapidly. The coverage of
sports changed entirely because of the ability to interact with
athletes, coaches, and organizations. Because of Facebook, Twitter,
Forums, and comment sections fans are able to interact with athletes
one-on-one. This ski-rocketed the coverage of teams. With the ability
to “follow” players like: Shaquille O'Neal, Paul Bissonette, Chad
Ochocinco and listen to their every move and thoughts, be able to
contact them directly. Fans increased, coverage increased and exposure
increased. Sports exploded – coverage of players were all over the
news, TV series' like “24/7 Penguins Capitals” appeared. Talk between
players became a new worthy. “Tweet”s like LeBron James saying “Crazy.
Karma is a b****.. Gets you every time. Its not good to wish bad on
anybody. God sees everything!”. Twitter and other social networking
sites created stories, and increased the coverage of sports.
With the ability to write and post instantly reporters and media
people has the grueling task of posting or reporting first. Story
breaking has become more than ever a competition. Speed has increase
the coverage of sports. New Media presented the ability for a
competition between media coverage trying to get the stories out as
fast a possible.
Without New Media sports wouldn't have grown as much as it has done
in the last decade, its increased fan base and coverage of games
athletes and information.