How COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown Has Affected Sports Practice

Q3 Social Sciences

Italian Sociological Review Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.13136/isr.v11i5S.474

B. Mazza

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Abstract

The recent pandemic generated by COVID-19 has changed how sports are habitually practised, necessitating a form of at-home sport to enable practitioners to continue exercising and training. This also touches upon how sports are ‘delivered', with home-based consumers having control over the times, ways and spaces given to sport, as transmitted by digital means. During lockdown, opportunities to take advantage of apps and content and/or follow online lessons on social networks notably intensified. These changes in sports practice generate a series of research objectives, to determine: how digital media has created a new environment for socializing and sports practice;how digital devices are used to play home sports;and which players encourage people to exercise at home. With these objectives in mind, a two-phase research was launched at the SapienzaSport centre. The first questioned a group of about 600 practitioners, with a relatively high cultural and socioeconomic level along with access to digital opportunities, to investigate their sports habits during lockdown. The goal was to focus on those not negatively affected by the digital divide. The second phase aimed at studying the subsequent implications, starting from September 2020 (when sports-related activities resumed in Italy), while understanding whether and in what way doing physical activity had changed. In this paper we report and analyse the main results. © 2021. All Rights Reserved.

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COVID-19大流行封锁如何影响体育实践

最近由COVID-19引起的大流行改变了体育运动的习惯，需要一种家庭运动形式，使从业者能够继续锻炼和训练。这也涉及到体育是如何“传递”的，以家庭为基础的消费者可以控制体育的时间、方式和空间，通过数字手段传播。在封锁期间，利用应用程序和内容和/或在社交网络上学习在线课程的机会明显增加。体育实践中的这些变化产生了一系列的研究目标，以确定:数字媒体如何为社交和体育实践创造了一个新的环境;数字设备如何被用于进行家庭体育活动;哪些玩家鼓励人们在家锻炼。考虑到这些目标，SapienzaSport中心开展了两阶段的研究。第一项研究调查了大约600名从业人员，他们具有相对较高的文化和社会经济水平，并能接触到数字机会，以调查他们在封锁期间的体育习惯。目标是关注那些没有受到数字鸿沟负面影响的人。第二阶段旨在研究随后的影响，从2020年9月开始(体育相关活动在意大利恢复)，同时了解体育活动是否发生了变化，以及以何种方式发生了变化。本文对主要结果进行了报道和分析。©2021。版权所有。

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Italian Sociological Review Social Sciences-Social Sciences (all)

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1.50

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审稿时长

8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Italian Sociological Review is as an academic journal for the dissemination of theoretical reflections and results of empirical research on social science, conducted with scientific methodologies and made available to a wider audience. The research results may have an impact on policy-makers, on the processes of formation of the students and the development and integration of theories and paradigms. It is therefore important that the journal maintains a high level of quality and transparency in the process of publication.