Tag: Lovisa Broms

Lovisa Broms’ dissertation explores the transformative role of social media in shaping and reshaping stable cultures within equestrian sports. Although equestrianism is Sweden’s second-largest youth sport, there is a limited body of research on the impact of social media on its practices. Social media has expanded traditional stable cultures—once confined to physical spaces—into digital environments, where riders of all ages exchange knowledge, experiences, and insights.

Sport, Education and Society encourages contributions from social scientists and educationalists studying the relationships between pedagogy, ‘the body’ and society, The Forum Editor’s pick from the current issue: ‘It’s just a case of chipping away': A postfeminist analysis of female coaches’ gendered experiences in grassroots sport by Paula Murray, Rhiannon Lord & Ross Lorimer.

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: “I bow down in awe of them…”: Sports awards for Paralympic athletes and Olympic athletes by Marte Bentzen & Kristin Vindhol Evensen.

In this feature article, Aage Radmann, Susanna Hedenborg and Lovisa Broms summarize their recent article in Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, in which they present a study of six social media influencers on stable cultures in Sweden and Norway. Goffman’s interaction ritual theory (1967) and previous research on social media form the basis for a discussion of knowledge exchange, co-creation of authenticity and intimacy, and sponsorship and advertising.

In this feature article, Lovisa Broms, Marte Bentzen, Aage Radmann & Susanna Hedenborg summarize their recent article in Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum in which they chart and analyze how equestrians use social media, how they communicate horse-related content on social media, and how social media can be seen as a source for knowledge exchange, focusing on how equestrians use social media to acquire information about horses.

In this peer reviewed article, Lovisa Broms, Marte Bentzen, Aage Radmann and Susanna Hedenborg chart and analyze how equestrians use social media, how they communicate horse-related content on social media, and how social media can be seen as a source for knowledge exchange, focusing on how equestrians use social media to acquire information about horses, and how this usage can be explained in connection to age and experience.

In this feature article, Lovisa Broms, Susanna Hedenborg & Aage Radmann summarize their recent article from Sport, Education and Society in which they present a study of how young equestrians utilize social media platforms in order to perceive, construct, negotiate, and manage identities. The results indicate that young riders have identified an online stable culture where high performance equestrianism is the norm.

Den 21–22 november 2019 samlades forskare från hela Sverige på Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan, GIH, i Stockholm för den årliga SVEBI-konferensen. Efter två dagar fyllda av intressanta presentationer, händer röda av entusiastiskt applåderande och sinnen överfulla av spännande tankar och idéer, har forumets utsända levererat en sammanfattande redogörelse av konferensdagarna.

In recent years, questions about the keeping and welfare of horses have been debated in social media. Voices of researchers, elite and leisure riders are heard, and different ideas about horse-keeping meet, clash and are discussed. The purpose of this study is to analyze stable cultures in cyberspace in Sweden and Norway. Horse riders’ communication in social media in relation to horse-keeping will be focused.