The New Window to Athletes’ Soul – What Social Media Tells Us About Athletes’ Performances

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dc.contributor.authorGruettner, Arne
dc.contributor.authorVitisvorakarn, Min
dc.contributor.authorWambsganss, Thiemo
dc.contributor.authorRietsche, Roman
dc.contributor.authorBack, Andrea
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-04T07:39:52Z
dc.date.available2020-01-04T07:39:52Z
dc.date.issued2020-01-07
dc.description.abstractProfessional sports has evolved from a game to an organization that has been codified, strategized, and commercialized. One factor that is shaping the sports industry is the pervasiveness of social media. On the one hand, social media is used as a powerful medium for distributing and getting news, engaging in topical discussions, and empowering brands. On the other hand, social media has become a crucial mouthpiece for athletes to interact with peers, share opinions, thoughts, and feelings. However, millions of followers, tweets, and likes later, researchers, practitioners, and athletes alike ask whether social media has an impact on an athlete’s performance. We conducted a social media usage and a sentiment analysis of 124,341 Twitter tweets extracted from 31 tennis athletes. We linked these data to 8,095 corresponding match day performances. The results show that high social media usage has a significant negative impact on athletes’ performance.
dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.identifier.doi10.24251/HICSS.2020.303
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-9981331-3-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/64045
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectData Analytics, Data Mining and Machine Learning for Social Media
dc.subjectathlete’s performance
dc.subjectsentiment analysis
dc.subjectsocial media
dc.subjectsports analytics
dc.subjecttext mining
dc.titleThe New Window to Athletes’ Soul – What Social Media Tells Us About Athletes’ Performances
dc.typeConference Paper
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