Blog Post #4

Content

Through the research I have been able to conduct, I was able to gather possible differences in commentary between those of different races. From the initial research I did conduct to find the gap in my research, there was pertinent data to gender differences and commentary differences. Through charts formed of viewership of tennis matches and media coverage through articles, data was shown that women's singles' matches received less media coverage in comparison to males' singles' matches. This was surprising to see that there was concrete data on the differences present. In addition to this, it was surprising to hear that there were visible gender differences because data was shown that female tennis athletes also receive prizes in lower value than male tennis athletes.

From this, the topic can be furthered to look at effects of rankings on tennis commentary along with gender and, possibly race. Although this is a possible addition to my research, I don't know if I will be continuing my project on towards higher levels of research.

Product

It is quite understandable that throughout the research process, collaboration and communication were necessary, despite the fact that it was an individual research project. Regardless, these skills are all something that I will be using within future endeavors, as well. Throughout my academic paper, I was able to realize the strength that peer feedback can have on one's own quality of work. It helps to get an outside opinion different from one's own in order to produce the best thing someone can possibly produce. Along with this, the oral defense presentation helped with communicating the ideas and findings that I was able to obtain from my research. Within my future endeavors, I know these presentations will come in useful to receive feedback on anything I partake in, which is why these were so beneficial to do within this AP Research class.

Process

Although the entire process has been hard, I, as a researcher, have learned more about myself throughout the process within each step. I know that sometimes I may try to take on more than I can handle, which leads to me losing the motivation to do any of it at all. This was the main problem in this class specifically because I was trying to juggle too much at once. However, it helped me to realize my limits as both a student and as a researcher. From this, I was able to determine that I shouldn't be holding these high expectations for myself, like conducting a science-based project by myself with no prior experience or knowledge on what to do; I should be able to know the limits of my experiences and start of slow to build myself up to those higher levels of thinking and reasoning.

Acknowledgements

I would mainly like to thank Ms. Dobos. Without her, I probably would have had to drop AP Research because of how behind I was, especially since I was planning on doing a science-based research project. However, even though she told me to switch my project because I was falling behind, I knew she believed in me and wanted to help with alleviating the stress by making me switch topics. So, I just wanted to thank her for being able to look out for me and helping me whenever I needed it.

I would also like to thank many of my friends at my table who were all in the same situation as me at every instance. We were all able to help each other through the stress of balancing out many of our other AP classes, as well.

Abstract

Although various laws have been passed to ensure equity among men and women, gender discrimination is still present in today’s society. Historically, female tennis athletes have been shown to receive prizes in lower value in comparison to male tennis athletes. Some people today, even, still argue that “female tennis players don’t deserve equal prize money” as men (Fountas 2020). Surprisingly, male tennis players—including the well-known tennis athlete Novak Djokovic—argue that they deserve to receive higher prizes than women because of their higher attendance and viewership rates. Studies from Signal AI reported 4% lower media coverage for women tennis players in comparison to male tennis players “during the last four Grand Slams'”. In addition to this, “of the top 10 most covered tennis players, only two were women: Serena Williams [who was ranked fourth] and Simona Halep [who was ranked eighth]” (Fountas 2020). Despite the fact that data from the 2018 Grand Slams reported that viewership of the womens’ singles matches was overall significantly higher than that of the men’s singles’ matches (Fig. 1), their individual coverage and attention received was significantly lower in comparison to that of male tennis athletes (Fig. 2). For each of the four Grand Slams of 2018, it is clearly depicted that male tennis athletes received a significantly greater amount of coverage and attention in comparison to female tennis athletes. This is clearly depicted within Figure 2 as represented through the number of female tennis athletes that actually received some sort of coverage through articles (Fountas 2020). Additionally, various studies done on the media coverage of women’s and men’s sports have shown differences in what exactly is being reported for the two genders.

If you would like to take a look at my academic paper, click on the following link

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PvGagUlqnhPc9z-Zs5ngK82Pb4Av2NKSKrYI6dt9eQs/edit?usp=sharing

If you would like to take a look at my final presentation, click on the following link

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/11cbWowncVWCVU_ZxicU9tww0tyk5qamWTrA-iPlAaCM/edit?usp=sharing

Finale

Finally, my next adventures are slowly approaching as I graduate high school and start my new chapter in college. I know my aspirations of studying medicine have yet to be fulfilled within my adventures at the University of Colorado Boulder. I hope to be able to fulfill and be successful within my future endeavors, and I know I only have my high school teachers and friends to thank for all they have done for me to make me the person I am today!

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