Tag: Anne Tjønndal

Therese Hareide Holstad’s and Anne Tjønndal’s peer review article examines the gendering of technology in sports coaching focusing on football coaches. The following research question is explored: What experiences do football coaches for men’s and women’s teams have with sports technology and how are these technologies gendered? The article is based on qualitative interviews with 12 football coaches for men’s and women’s football teams in Norway. The analytical framework is comprised of research on technology in sports coaching combined with feminist theories of technology and the digital divide.

What is the meaning of sport? How is it organized? What are the consequences of the professionalization, digitalization, and technologization of sport? Is sport for everyone, or does it emphasize and reinforce social inequality? Arve Hjelseth’s, Lone Friis Thing’s and Anne Tjønndal’s book Idrettssosiologi (Fagbokforlaget) looks at questions such as these through a sociological lens, and do so, according to Johan Högman, very successfully. A few critical points notwithstanding, our reviewer is very happy with the way the authors apply sociological theory to the phenomenon of sport.

In the edited collection Athletics in the Nordic Countries: History and Development, edited by Jörg Krieger, scholars from Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden explore historical developments and current phenomena in the sport of athletics. The authors provide insight into sport officials, events, and athletes from the Nordic countries that have shaped the international athletics scene. In his review, Alan Bairner presents the basic features of a book that obliges the reader to think about what this most accessible of sports is and what it could be, for good or ill.

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: Studying professional women footballers: A reflexive commentary on being benched from recruitment by Laura Harris and Dawn E Trussell (open access).

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).