History of Ukrainian Paralympic Sports in Electronic Media: Level of Informativeness and Representativeness
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15407/uhj2021.01.190Keywords:
Paralympic sports, sports press, history of sports, online mediaAbstract
The article is devoted to the coverage of the history and formation of Paralympic sports in Ukraine in Ukrainian electronic sports media.
The purpose is to find out the role of electronic sports media in covering the history and formation of Paralympic sports in Ukraine.
Scientific approaches: methodological principles of system analysis and the method of content analysis are intelligence tools.
The scientific novelty is determined by the involvement and development of a wide range of electronic resources of the sports press, which has allowed to determine the level of their informativeness and to draw conclusions about their importance as a source of information for studying the history of Paralympic sports. The main results of the study. According to the results of the analysis of Ukrainian electronic sports media, the authors note their growing role in studying the history and popularization of Paralympic movement in Ukraine. Launched in the 1990s, today electronic sports media have become an important source for research into this scientific problem.
The authors have concluded that the topic of Paralympic sports occupies a significant place on the pages of sports websites, among which the sites of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine and the National Committee of Sports for the Disabled of Ukraine, as well as others, including regional electronic resources, are distinguished by their thematic content. In the last decade, these media resources constantly contain information about Paralympic sports competitions, participation of Ukrainian Paralympians in the Olympic Games and international Paralympic competitions, and about Paralympic athletes and their achievements. State policy to support Paralympic movement and the problems of legislation in this area are reflected. It is concluded on the importance of online media as a historical source for the study of sports history for people with disabilities.
