Health and well-being implications surrounding the use of wearable GPS devices in professional rugby league: A Foucauldian disciplinary analysis of the normalised use of a common surveillance aid

Engaging with uncertainty in athlete development – orchestrating talent development through incremental leadership

“…However, surprisingly few researchers have focused their attention on how coaches can identify and facilitate effective, operational and concrete strategies for steering athlete developmental processes. This research gap is troubling because of the problematic nature of popular development strategies in modern elite sport systems such as the use of surveillance technologies by coaches, which has been reported in male elite rugby (Jones, Marshall, & Denison, 2016) and female elite field hockey (Taylor, Potrac, Nelson, Jones, & Groom, 2015); the hierarchical relations of power between coaches and athletes reported, for example, in female elite gymnastics (Barker-Ruchti & Tinning, 2010); the authoritarian behaviour used by coaches at an English youth football academy ; and dominant disciplinary coaching practices in NCAA Division I men's baseball that are based on a narrow sense of knowing the 'normal' way to train athletes (Gearity & Mills, 2012).…”

Analytical attractions and the techno-continuum: Conceptualising data obsessions and consequences in elite sport

“…Literature in sport has similarly developed robust arguments vis-à-vis surveillance and power (e.g. Collins et al 2017;Jones, Marshall & Denison, 2016, Williams & Manley, 2016). Yet, theoretical reconfigurations can move the argument in a different direction.…”

Emotions, identity, and power in video-based feedback sessions: tales from women’s professional football

“…The use of various video and computer based technologies to analyse, support, and monitor athlete performance has become an increasingly pervasive feature of high performance sport (Jones, Marshall, & Denison, 2016;MacKenzie & Cushion, 2013;Taylor, Potrac, Groom, & Nelson, 2017). However, the popularity of their application has not been matched by a corresponding amount of scholarly inquiry into their use.…”

“…Foundational work in this area has sought to document how the application of computer and video-based technologies are inextricably grounded in dynamic contextual relations between coaches, athletes, and a range of significant others. For example, Booroff, Nelson, and Potrac (2016) and Groom et al's (2011) investigations highlighted how coaches' understandings of the socio-political demands of organisational life influenced their use of computer based technologies, while Manley and Williams (2014) and Jones, Marshall and Denison (2016) addressed concerns regarding the potentially harmful and 'controlling' impacts of such technologies. Similarly, Taylor et al (2017) depicted an athlete's fears and disquiets regarding the continual video-based monitoring of her performances in training and 5 competition and, relatedly, the public evaluation of her decision making and actions.…”