Tag: Egil Trasti Rogstad

The Norwegian Esports Federation (NEF) was founded in 2010 and has since then attempted to build a bridge between gaming culture and traditional sports structures. This week marked a new development: the Norwegian Olympic and Sports Federation (NIF) rejected NEF's application for membership. In this feature, Egil Trasti Rogstad discusses what this means for the future of esports in Norway, while also providing an international perspective and finding major differences between countries in how esports relates to traditional sports.

In this article, Egil Trasti Rogstad summarizes his anthology chapter in Norwegian on women players’ experiences of embodiment in professional esports. Sundén’s concept of online embodiment is introduced to analyze how players’ bodies are assigned social significance despite the virtual nature of esports. This highlights both positive and negative aspects of how women players are portrayed in the media and emphasizes the need to understand how online embodiment affects inclusion and participation in the esports community.

I den här artikeln sammanfattar Egil Trasti Rogstad ett antologikapitel om kvinnliga spelares erfarenheter av förkroppsligande i professionell e-sport. Jenny Sundéns koncept online embodiment introduceras för att analysera hur spelarnas kroppar tilldelas social betydelse, trots e-sportens virtuella karaktär. Detta belyser både positiva och negativa aspekter av hur kvinnliga spelare porträtteras i media, och betonar behovet av att förstå hur online förkroppsligande påverkar inkludering och deltagande i e-sportgemenskapen.

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).

Annette R. Hofmann & Pascal Mamudou Camara’s edited collection Critical Perspectives on Esports (Routledge) offers new, multidisciplinary approaches to esports, one of the most rapidly growing sectors in the sports and leisure industries. Sociologist and esports expert Egil Trasti Rogstad has read the anthology carefully, and his review offers a thorough description and an insightful and critical analysis of the various perspectives that make up the book’s way of looking at esports.

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.

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: Participation of girls and women in community sport in Ghana: Cultural and structural barriers by Derrick Charway and Åse Strandbu (open access).

Egil Trasti Rogstad’s doctoral thesis focuses on gendered power relations and inequality in sports-themed esports (esports based on sports simulation games). The male domination in traditional sports seem to be prevailing in the world of sports gaming. We invited Sanna Erdoğan, a feminist scholar in the field of sports coaching to read and review the thesis, and she does a thorough job of it, weighing the arguments and findings against the preconceived notions often associated with sex, gender and sports.

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.

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.