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Sport, Instagram, and masculinities: Hybrid and hegemonic traits amongst hockey-playing men in Sweden
Örebro University, School of Health Sciences. Jyväskylä University, Finland.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4985-3595
2024 (English)In: Renegotiating Masculinities in European Digital Spheres / [ed] Inês Amaral, Rita Basílio de Simões, Sofia José Santos, New York: Routledge, 2024Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

The media’s portrayal of ice hockey and masculinity has often been viewed as a patriarchal domain reinforcing hyper-masculine traits. However, scholars argue that contemporary sports are becoming more inclusive, less misogynistic, and challenging traditional notions of masculinity. This chapter explores the practices of masculinity amongst ice hockey-playing men in Sweden using Instagram posts. The data includes images and comments, and the methods combine visual and textual content analysis. The study applies the theoretical concepts of hybridity/elasticity and hegemony to analyze the data. While ice hockey has been associated with so-called traditional masculinity, the chapter identifies various traits of masculinity portrayed by ice hockey-playing men. These include the sexualizing of ice hockey men, who are often expected to be sexually driven subjects, and homophobic and misogynistic expressions, which can together take different and sometimes contradictory forms. The discussion highlights Instagram’s potential to portray ice hockey-playing men and masculinities as progressive or ‘new’, but also as conservative and ‘old.’

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New York: Routledge, 2024.
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Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
Keywords [en]
gender power, hybrid masculinity, elasticity, hegemony, hegemonic masculinity
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Media and Communication Studies Media and Communication Studies Sport and Fitness Sciences
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Sports Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-117225Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85209835907ISBN: 9781032378015 (print)ISBN: 9781003344155 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:oru-117225DiVA, id: diva2:1910999
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Ishockey i förändring - maskulinitetsideal och våldsnormer i svensk ishockey ca 1965 till idag
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Swedish National Centre for Research in SportsAvailable from: 2024-11-06 Created: 2024-11-06 Last updated: 2025-02-17Bibliographically approved

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