Tag: Anne Tjønndal

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.

Jimmy Sanderson’s Sport, Social Media, and Digital Technology: Sociological Approaches (Emerald Publications) brings together a collection of essays from leading global scholars to illustrate how sociological approaches are imperative to enhancing our understanding of sport and social media and digital technology. 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.

Syftet med Vegard Berglunds och Anne Tjønndals studie är att undersöka social integration inom e-sport och sociala bieffekter av deltagande i organiserad e-sport. De har studerat detta genom kvalitativa intervjuer med fem ledare i norska e-sportklubbar, och forskningsfrågan som utforskas är: vilka erfarenheter har ledare för norska e-sportklubbar av social inkludering och sociala bieffekter av e-sport för unga? Resultaten visar att deltagande i e-sport bidrar till samma sociala bieffekter som tillskrivs andra, traditionella sporter.

The purpose of Vegard Berglund’s and Anne Tjønndal’s study is to investigate social integration within e-sports and social side effects of participation in organized e-sports. They have studied this through qualitative interviews with five managers in Norwegian e-sports clubs. What experiences do managers of Norwegian e-sports clubs have of social inclusion and social side effects of e-sports for young people? The results show that participation in e-sports contributes to the same social side effects that are attributed to other, traditional sports.

In On Boxing: Critical Interventions in the Bittersweet Science (Routledge), philosophy professor Joseph Lewandowski, well versed in the noble art of self-defense, offers a philosophical and cultural critique of contemporary boxing in the United States. We asked Anne Tjønndal of Nord University, a seasoned boxer herself, for a review. Some critical points notwithstanding, she finds that Lewandowski’s effort serves to inspire readers to further critical explorations of combat sports. It is, she concludes, a highly enjoyable read for anyone interested in boxing in the US.

Academics in various disciplines are writing about sport. Sport in Society is a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary forum for academics to discuss the growing relationship of sport to significant areas of modern life. The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: New spatial practices in organised sport following COVID-19: the Swedish case by Karin Book, Susanna Hedenborg & Karin Andersson (open access).

In his book The Sport Marriage: Women who make it work (University of Illinois Press), author Steven M. Ortiz draws on studies he conducted over nearly three decades focusing on the marital realities confronted by women married to male professional athletes. We gave this book to Norwegian sport sociologist Anne Tjønndal, who had a delightful time reading it. She concludes her appreciative review with warm recommendations.

Anne Tjønndals och Ingrid Fyllings bok Digitale forskningsmetoder (Cappelen Damm Akademisk) ger en introduktion till olika strategier för att samla in samhällsvetenskaplig data med hjälp av digitala hjälpmedel. Boken är avsedd för både studenter och etablerade forskare som vill ha en introduktion till denna forskningsmetod. Vi bad en internationellt ledande Malmöforskare på området, Martin Berg, att läsa och recensera boken, och han fann flera brister men också en entusiasm som kan locka till efterföljd.

För att uppmärksamma och hylla Jorid Hovdens drygt trettioåriga forskargärning har ett stort antal ledande norska idrottsforskare under Anne Tjønndals ledning tillsammans fyllt en voluminös festskrift, Idrett, kjønn og ledelse: Festskrift til Jorid Hovden (Fagbokforlaget) med 18 innehållsrika kapitel. Leah Monsees hyllar i sin tur Anne Tjønndals redaktörsgärning, och hon finner mycket i de olika bidragen att ta lärdom av för sitt eget pågående avhandlingsprojekt.