Tag: Anne Tjønndal

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Care as a strategy to navigate political tensions within the China–Norway sports coaching collaboration by Anne Tjønndal and Heidi Østbø Haugen (open access).

EJSS’ function is to enable an international discussion about current issues and to foster collaboration between researchers from all social scientific sub-disciplines. It’s published 4 times per year. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Women play football, not women’s football’: the potentials and paradoxes of professionalisation expressed at the UEFA women’s EURO 2022 Championship  by Anne Tjønndal, Sigbjørn Børreson Skirbekk, Stian Røsten & Egil Trasti Rogstad.

Bringing together leading esports experts from Europe, North America, and Australia, Anne Tjønndal’s edited collection Social Issues in Esports (Routledge) provides new sociological analyses that define and locate esports in social studies. Kalle Jonasson, who wrote about esports on idrottsforum.org already back in 2005, is highly appreciative of Tjønndal’s book, notwithstanding the fact that he would have liked to see a bit more of conceptual and philosophical thinking around the social issues surrounding esports.

IRSS is a peer reviewed academic journal. Its main purpose is to disseminate research and scholarship on sport throughout the international academic community. The journal publishes research articles of varying lengths, as well as book and media reviews. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘Inclusivity for who’?: An analysis of ‘race’ and female fandom at the 2022 UEFA European Women's Championships by Anika Leslie-Walker, Katie Taylor, and Esther Jones Russell (open access).

Drawing upon a wide range of interdisciplinary resources, John Toner’s Wearable Technology in Elite Sport: A Critical Examination reveals how wearable devices are used to quantify athletic bodies in ways that have a number of undesirable consequences for the embodied subject. In a collective review, the research group on sport and society, RESPONSE at Nord University, finds much to commend Toner’s efforts, but the critical perspectives promised in the title was sorely and sadly missing, according to our reviewers.

SSSF, a multidisciplinary social sciences sport studies journal, welcomes articles that deal with sport and social change and social stability in a wide sense, articles about the profound and comprehensive processes affecting sport. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: Motives, Motivation, and Motivational Climate of Young Norwegian Swimmers, and their Parents’ Belief by Ingeborg Ljødal, Bjørn Harald Olstad & Anne Marte Pensgaard (open access).

Våren 2022 ble det foreslått endringer i Idrettstingets sammensetning, og med bakgrunn i endringen i tingsammensetningen er formålet med denne studien å undersøke hvem som deltar og hva som påvirker interessen for deltakelse på idrettskretsting. Studien av Anne Tjønndal, Martine Limstrand og Siv Stavang Aune baserer seg på en spørreundersøkelse av idrettslag i Nordland, kombinert med en kvantitativ innholdsanalyse av protokoller fra Nordland idrettskretsting i perioden 2016-2022.

In the spring of 2022, changes were proposed to the composition of the Sports Council, and based on the change in composition, the purpose of this study is to investigate who participates and which factors influence the interest in participation in sports councils. The study is based on a survey of sports teams in Nordland, combined with a quantitative content analysis of protocols from the Nordland sports district in the period 2016-2022. The questionnaire data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and regression analysis.

Technological advances affect sports in various ways. Anne Tjønndal’s Idrettsteknologi (Fagbokforlaget) shows how the sporting world is faced with new opportunities and challenges as a result of technological changes. Anna Åberg sees the difficulties in treating such a vast subject in a short book, but while in parts descriptive, other parts are quite analytical, and Tjønndal succeeds in bringing the many aspects together to form a solid foundation for classroom conversations around this complex issue.

Sascha L. Schmidt’s edited collection 21st Century Sports: How Technologies Will Change Sports in the Digital Age (Springer) outlines the effects that technology-induced change will have on sport within the next five to ten years. A collective of sport sociologists at Nord University, Norway has read the book as a book group, bringing many various experiences and perspectives into a rich review highlighting the book’s strong points as well as its weaknesses, one of which is a paucity of critical perspectives throughout.