Streaming physical activity via social networks in times of lockdown
Between a desire to share and a search for visibility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12048878 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bernard Massiéra (0000-0001-7506-5392, Laboratoire Motricité Humaine Expertise Sport Santé, Université Côte d’Azur, Nice, France, corresponding author), Imed Ben Mahmoud (0009-0006-1743-1386, Manouba University), Imed Ben-Mahmoud (Unité de Recherche Performance Sportive Santé & Société, Université de la Manouba, Institut Supérieur du Sport et de l’Education Physique, Ksar Saïd, Tunisia), Valérie Morales-Gonzales (Equipe de Recherche Contextes et Acteurs de l’Education, Université d’Orléans, Orleans, France) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 266-277 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0705-3436 • E-ISSN: 1705-0154 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07053436.2021.1935428 |
| OpenAlex | W3186674498 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
As the Covid-19 pandemic confines part of the world’s population at home, an abundant offer of videos broadcasting physical activity sessions is emerging on social networks. With the help of an observation tool linked to the theories of representation and social scene, a significant selection of the offer of online physical activity sessions is viewed, and its analysis allows us to model its emergence process. Three categories stand out: first, individual actors who seem motivated to contribute to the common effort of health, sharing, and communication with communities of practitioners; second, the category of individuals composed of celebrities and famous personalities involved in the movement probably driven by the search for visibility and notoriety and whose marketable offer of fitness and well-being practices is characterized by a high quality of audiovisual production. Finally, the offer coming from sports and health institutions, which is distinguished by both the exemplarity and the precision of the exercises proposed, as well as by the sober nature of the sessions
Broadcasting (networking · Computer security · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Epistemology · Geography · Internet privacy · Personality · Personality psychology · Political science · Population · Process (computing · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Representation (politics · Selection (genetic algorithm · Sociology · Visibility · Communication and COVID-19 Impact · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Artificial Intelligence
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |