Maziarz, Tiffany A.2020-11-132020-11-132020-11-09Maziarz, Tiffany A. “‘You Throw Like a Girl!’: A Sociological Analysis of Media Representation and Viewership of Women’s Sports.” Honors Program, The University of Tampa, 2020. https://doi.org/10.48497/WRM4-F960.http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11868/1294Recommended Citation: Maziarz, Tiffany A. “‘You Throw Like a Girl!’: A Sociological Analysis of Media Representation and Viewership of Women’s Sports.” Honors Program, The University of Tampa, 2020. https://doi.org/10.48497/WRM4-F960.Motivated by the sociological theories of Symbolic Interactionism and Contemporary Feminism, this research explores the intersections of gender, the media, and sports on a southeastern college campus. Undergraduate students were recruited from various sections of Introduction to Sociology to complete a 38-question survey administered through Qualtrics. The final sample size was 85 (n = 85). Bivariate analyses were conducted using RStudio and SPSS simultaneously, and any relationship that was found to be significant (p = .05) was analyzed using a Cramer’s V coefficient test to determine the strength of association. Trends that stood out in the research were 1) There are differences in perspective between men and women college students; 2) There are not many differences in opinion between those who participate in sports and those who do not; and 3) There were differences between viewership frequency (this could also be tied to the amount of sports coverage watched by each gender, however, multivariate analysis was not conducted).en-USGenderMediaSportsRepresentationViewershipSportswomenResearch Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES::Social sciences::SociologyUndergraduate Thesishttps://doi.org/10.48497/wrm4-f960