THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE FIELDS OF MEDIA AND SPORTS

Abstract

This essay looks into conceptual relations among Pierre Bourdieu, Adriano Rodrigues and João Pissarra Esteves’ concept of field. Questions relating to an overlap among fields, as well as the legitimacy of the fields of media considering other social fields, the power exerted by the mediatic field and its relationship with symbolic constructions in the field of sports become explicit in discoursive constructions in the field of media. Empirical evidences from the field of sports with the symbolic representations media sets out to do starting from the praxis of this field are highlighted, representing the interdependent relation of production of meanings between media and sports.

Key words: field of sports; media; symbolic