Finland

Vehmas, Hanna; Koski, Pasi; Lehtonen, Kati

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02354-6_8

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“…In Finland, sports is primarily organized in non-profit sports clubs 2 that rely on voluntary work (Vehmas et al, 2018). Many of the long-established Finnish sports clubs were originally formed around a social class or an ideology at the turn of the 20th century (Research Institute for Olympic Sports, 2021; Sarje, 2011).…”

Section: Differentiated Leisure Sports Culturesmentioning

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Mediatization and Self-Organized Leisure Sports: A Finnish Perspective

Ehrlén

2022

Communication & Sport

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Participation in leisure sports is undergoing a transformation that is guided by societal and cultural changes as well as recent developments in, and the use of, digital sports media and technologies. This paper discusses how changes in leisure sports participation can be understood using mediatization as a theoretical framework. This theoretically informed analysis of change is contextualized within Finnish climbing and trail running subcultures. The paper proposes that mediatization contributes to the diversification of the sporting landscape, enables fluidity in sports communities, and strengthens commercialization of leisure sports. Additionally, the paper outlines how the dynamics of de- and reinstitutionalization of leisure sports are connected to the rise of digital media and communication.

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Section: Differentiated Leisure Sports Culturesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mediatization and Self-Organized Leisure Sports: A Finnish Perspective

Ehrlén

2022

Communication & Sport

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Episodic Volunteering in Sport Events: A Seven-Country Analysis

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Life Priorities of Volunteers of Mega Sport Events in the BRICS Countries

Sukharkova

2022

Sociologicheskaja Nauka I Social'naja Praktika

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The article is devoted to the participants of volunteer programs of major sporting events that were implemented in the BRICS countries. The main attention in the text is given to the life priorities of volunteers, their idea of happiness. The empirical basis of the article is an online survey of volunteers who have experience of participating in programs to work with volunteers at major sporting events in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS countries). The survey was conducted from January to March 2022. 2,638 respondents took part in the study. Based on the results of a survey of volunteers, we determined that volunteers are more likely to set goals in life. Also, volunteers participating in major sporting events tend to make plans for the distant and near future. The most frequently mentioned priorities in life among the volunteers were: family; health; helping those in need; education and selfdevelopment. At the same time, more than half of the volunteers consider themselves unconditionally happy people, and consider their loved ones happy. For volunteers, often inner feelings are more important for understanding happiness. About half of the volunteers participating in major sporting events from the BRICS countries would like to devote more time to volunteering in the next three years.

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Finland

Cited by 3 publications

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Mediatization and Self-Organized Leisure Sports: A Finnish Perspective

Mediatization and Self-Organized Leisure Sports: A Finnish Perspective

Episodic Volunteering in Sport Events: A Seven-Country Analysis

Life Priorities of Volunteers of Mega Sport Events in the BRICS Countries

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