Aage Radmann

• Radmann, Aage & Sätre, Anna (2024). Female sports journalists: The more things change, the more they stay the same. Media and Communication. ISSN 2183-2439. 12. doi: 10.17645/mac.8200.
• Hedenborg, Susanna; Kronborg, Mathilde; Sätre, Anna; Radmann, Aage; Torell Palmquist, Gabriella & Andersson, Petra (2024). Pro-Environmental Transformation of the Equine Sector—Facilitators and Challenges. Animals. ISSN 2076-2615. 14(6). doi: 10.3390/ani14060915.
• Radmann, Aage; Andersson, Torbjörn & Herd, Katarzyna (2023). A struggle between loyalty and commodification : Scandinavian football fans. In de Hollanda, Bernardo Buarque & Busset, Thomas (Ed.), Football fandom in Europe and Latin America : culture, politics, and violence in the 21st century. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031064722. p. 81–105. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-06473-9_4.
• Karlén, Sara & Radmann, Aage (2023). Swedish supporter culture–restrictions, conflicts, resistance. Soccer and Society. ISSN 1466-0970. 24(3), p. 350–363. doi: 10.1080/14660970.2023.2179198. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This study investigates the conflict between, on the one hand, the Swedish police and law enforcement and, on the other, supporters, football clubs, and the organization of Swedish Elite Football. The core of this conflict is the introduction of a new structure for maintaining order, referred to as the Condition Ladder (Villkorstrappan), aimed at addressing disturbances and pyrotechnics in the stands. The aim of this article is to chart and analyse the impact of the Condition Ladder on Swedish football culture. The methods are media analysis, analysis of police documents and interviews. The study confirms previous findings regarding the role of the media in public discourse, but also indicates that the previously negative media image of the supporter culture has changed into a more positive view. The study shows that the new restrictions create conflicts and tensions between the involved actors when these actors are to handle risk elements in Swedish supporter culture.

• Broms, Lovisa; Boije af Gennäs, Klara; Radmann, Aage & Hedenborg, Susanna (2022). Accessibility, Agency, and Trust: A Study About Equestrians' (Online) Learning Repertoires. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. ISSN 2624-9367. 4. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2022.863014. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Todays' online media landscape facilitates communication on how sports practitioners can develop in their sport. Hence, sports and educational institutions need to recognize the increased role of the individual as “a facilitator of knowledge” through information and communications technology (ICT). For sport organizations and educational institutions to effectively reach out with knowledge and research, they need to know how individuals assess, value, and trust information sources. This article aims to increase the knowledge and understanding of how the traditional culture in equestrianism meets the contemporary media user. It is based on a study that uses a mixed methods design, containing a questionnaire with 1,655 respondents and 28 focus group interviews with Swedish and Norwegian equestrians, to investigate how equestrians create their own repertoires of horse-knowledge online and what sources of knowledge they trust and prioritize. The results show that accessibility, agency, and trust are key terms when mapping equestrians' preferred knowledge platforms, and that equestrians are generally not satisfied with the availability and the quality of horse-related online content. Horse experience is the most important positional factor influencing online repertoires in the equestrian community. Riders with less experience turn to Social Network Sites (SNS) to a higher extent than riders with more experience. Further, equestrians find the ability to assess information as an important yet challenging task. This article shows that the term (online) learning repertoires is appropriate when discussing the relationship (or clash) between the traditional culture in equestrian sports and the contemporary media user. On the one hand, many equestrians clearly express that they would rather stay away from obtaining information about horses and riding on ICTs. On the other hand, the data, together with previous research, indicates that many equestrians see ICTs as important platforms for discussing and exchanging information about horses and riding.

• Radmann, Aage; Hedenborg White, Manon & Hedenborg, Susanna (2022). Segregated femininities? Creating female fandom through social media in Sweden. Soccer and Society. ISSN 1466-0970. 23(3), p. 298–313. doi: 10.1080/14660970.2022.2037213. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The study analyses female fandom in Sweden, focusing on female football supporters’ self-presentation on social media. We found social media to function as a forum for empowerment, where the female football fans construct and express solidarity between girls and women and challenge hegemonic notions of femininity. Female football supporters are actively involved in formulating and shaping their own agenda and self-presentation and are drawn to the supporter culture for many of the same reasons as their male peers: group community, thrill and excitement, and the love for their team. The contribution of the study is two-fold: it fills a knowledge gap regarding Swedish female fans, while also making a conceptual intervention in the study of female fandoms more broadly, demonstrating the usefulness of critical theorization on femininities and indicating how social media enables female football supporters to ‘play’ with different conceptions of femininity to create space within the supporter milieu.

• Broms, Lovisa; Hedenborg, Susanna & Radmann, Aage (2022). Super equestrians–the construction of identity/ies and impression management among young equestrians in upper secondary school settings on social media. Sport, Education and Society. ISSN 1357-3322. 27(4), p. 462–474. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2020.1859472. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The aim of this study is to analyze and increase the understanding of how young equestrians, in a sport school context, perceive, construct, negotiate and manage identities on social media. This article presents how a specific group of young athletes (equestrians) use social network sites (SNS), such as Facebook and Instagram, in relation to their everyday lives as students attending upper secondary schools with an equestrian sports profile. Social media is increasingly important for young people’s perceptions, constructions, and managing of identities. Using a multifaceted theoretical framework, including Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical perspective, we will explore how young equestrians perceive the content on SNS and analyze how they act and create content in relation to existing norms and cultures. Equestrianism is one of the largest sports in Sweden and several upper secondary schools in Sweden offer programs with an equestrian profile. Studies on sport schools evince a focus on elite sport and competition, which affects norms and ideologies at these schools. Through focus group interviews with 25 students, we show that the situation is complex and contradictory. The results indicate that young riders have identified an online stable culture where high performance equestrianism is the norm. Our study shows that the educational environment is not the only factor affecting the students, but that social media is also a part of the young athletes’ constructions of identity. The image of the employable ‘super equestrian’ who is attractive, wears the ‘right clothes’, is successful, and acts ‘professionally’ is the most desirable representation online. The young equestrians are critical of what is communicated on SNS in relation to horses and riding, and they are uncertain of how to position themselves in relation to this communication.

• Radmann, Aage & Karlén, Sara (2022). Spectators longing for live action: a study of the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on (football) supporters in Sweden. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. ISSN 1743-0437. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2022.2031003. Show summary

  The purpose of the study is to investigate how sports audiences have been affected by being unable to attend competitions physically on site during the Covid-19 pandemic. The study shows how Swedish supporters, mainly football fans, have experienced the 2020 season, coinciding with the Covid-19 pandemic. The analysis highlights the importance of physical place for the audience and discusses the relationship between physical sports arenas and digital platforms during the pandemic. Finally, the effects of the suspension of live experiences are discussed. According to the persons studied, something essential—fellowship, solidarity, pulse, excitement—is lost when sporting events are held without an audience. The theoretical framework is derived from cultural sociology and draws inspiration from key concepts such as topophilia, space and place, and emotional attachments.

• Beames, Simon; Andkjær, Søren & Radmann, Aage (2021). Alone With Goffman: Impression Management and the TV Series. Frontiers in Communication. ISSN 2297-900X. 6. doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.676555. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Alone is an American reality television series on the History Channel. The show features 10 contestants who are vying to outlast each other while living off the land. Notably, there is no camera crew, and the contestants must film themselves everyday; the production team creates a weekly program that marks the journey of each individual. This study sought to understand the degree to which participants are able to shape their public identities through the video footage they shot and that was subsequently edited in Alone’s cutting room. The research team employed an explorative case study methodology, which allowed them to watch hours of publicly available official video clips from the History Channel’s Alone YouTube channel. The analysis was driven by theory (Goffman’s The Presentation of Self conceptual framework) and an inductive thematic analysis, which took place in a cyclical fashion through interpretation meetings at the end of each of the six series that were watched. The findings first showed that the contestants were performing to multiple audiences, such as their families, the public, the producers, and even God. Second, the boundary between the frontstage and the backstage was highly blurred. Third, the contestants were able to continue shaping and “repairing” their identities through their own social media outlets after the program. Finally, the theme of gendered approaches to living outdoors shone through in ways that were very complex, overlapping, and non-binary. There is an undeniably strong “impression management tension” between the selves that participants wanted to project and the narratives that were constructed by the Alone program’s producers.

• Rosenberg, Axel; Lynch, Philippa & Radmann, Aage (2021). Sustainability Comes to Life. Nature-Based Adventure Tourism in Norway. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. ISSN 2624-9367. 3, p. 1–16. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2021.686459. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper investigates how tourists and guides perform sustainability during adventure tourism trips in natural environments. The paper draws on empirical data from an ethnographic study of five different multi-day trips in Norway, each of which used skiing, hiking, or biking as the mode of travel. In our analysis, we focus on how the different actors understood, operationalized and practiced elements of sustainability in their everyday lives while on the trips. The paper applies a micro-sociological perspective to the nature-based adventure tourism scene where the interplay between tourists, guides, adventure activities and nature is understood as multiple dialectic performances co-produced by the different actors. Goffman's dramaturgical metaphors, and concepts of frames, appearance, and manner saturate recent research on tourism and nature guiding. This paper builds on the “performance turn” as a theoretical point of departure for understanding sustainability in nature-based adventure tourism experiences. In participant observations and post-trip interviews with Norwegian and international tourists and their guides, we found that sustainability performances were not a major aspect of the trips. We did find some performances of mainly “light” sustainability and, among them, elements of ambivalence and ambiguity. Our data indicate that some guides tread a fine line between enhancing and deepening tourists' experiences of nature and sustainability or negatively impacting the perceived enjoyment imperative of the trip. International tourists expressed deeper sustainability overall. We reflect on the relative explanatory strengths of Goffman's “frames” and interaction order, and Persson's “framing,” for understanding the interplay between guide and tourist sustainability performances and conclude with pointers for teasing out the complexities we identify.

• Radmann, Aage; Hedenborg, Susanna & Broms, Lovisa (2021). Social Media Influencers in Equestrian Sport. Frontiers in Sports and Active Living. ISSN 2624-9367. 3. doi: 10.3389/fspor.2021.669026. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The study analyzes and explains the impact of social media influencers on stable cultures in Sweden and Norway, contributing to the understanding of the complex relationship between equestrian sports and social media—a relationship that is important for the welfare of horses. Since equestrianism is one of the most popular sports in Sweden and Norway, influencers' social media communication greatly impacts followers' perception of the human-animal relationship. Despite the popularity of equestrian sports, studies thereof are rare, and research combining equestrian sports and social media is almost non-existent, making this study important and relevant. The analysis focuses on the six biggest equestrian influencers in Sweden and Norway and their social media accounts. Goffman's (1967) micro-sociological perspectives, alongside previous research on social media, are used to discuss knowledge exchange, co-creation of authenticity and intimacy and sponsorship and advertisement. The influencers mainly focus their communication on horse-related issues, and their (and their followers) love of horses create the intimacy needed as a base for other messages (perceived knowledge and advertisement). The intimacy and authenticity are strengthened in the interaction between followers and influencers, and the latter receive positive feedback for their way of handling their horses' lives. The expressive order of stable culture(s) is seldom questioned and the acceptance of this order is likely to make the commercial endorsements less visible and more convincing.

• Svensson, Daniel & Radmann, Aage (2021). Keeping Distance? Adaptation Strategies to the Covid-19 Pandemic Among Sport Event Organizers in Sweden. Journal of global sport management. ISSN 2470-4067. doi: 10.1080/24704067.2021.1936592. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Sport has often had an important role in times of crisis, but the Covid-19 pandemic is another matter. Sport was heavily affected world-wide on all levels. In Sweden, gathering people for endurance events conflicted with the Covid-19 restrictions. Some events were cancelled, but many tried to adapt. What adaptation strategies to Covid-19 have Swedish event organizers used? What role have digital tools played in their adaptation? What economic impacts did these events experience? We argue that the challenges posed by Covid-19 have accelerated the digitization of endurance events and highlighted the tensions between commercial and non-commercial actors in sports due to the differences in financial structure and eligibility for economic support. We thereby contribute to the growing research on how sport events in general have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic, and specifically in the context of Sweden’s somewhat exceptional response to the pandemic.

• Broms, Lovisa; Bentzen, Marte; Radmann, Aage & Hedenborg, Susanna (2021). Stable Cultures in Cyberspace: A study about equestrians’ use of social media as knowledge platforms. Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum. ISSN 2000-088X. 12, p. 33–58. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  New media habits in the era of digitalization challenge previous understandings of who and what receives media coverage. Research shows that practitioners in self-organized lifestyle sports consistently use social media to attain and exchange information and knowledge about their sport. Is this also the case in organized sport? The Internet has become a great resource for horse-enthusiasts and the online horse world can be described as an extension of the physical horse world. Equestrian sport is particularly interesting to analyze due to the fact that there is an animal involved. Still, there is little knowledge of how horse enthusiasts use social media in relation to their interest in equestrian sports. The aim of this article is therefore to chart and analyze how equestrians use social media, how they communicate horse-related content on social media, and how social media can be seen as a source for knowledge exchange. Our investigation focuses on how equestrians use social media to acquire information about horses, and how this usage can be explained in connection to age and experience. A mixed methods design is used and data is collected from 28 focus group interviews with equestrians in Sweden and Norway and a survey with 1,628 respondents. Our study indicates that practitioners of self-organized sports are not unique in using social network sites (SNS) to exchange and attain knowledge about their sport; equestrians in general are shown to be frequent users of SNS such as Facebook and Instagram. Although our results show a few significant differences in SNS use in relation to age; the riders in the different age groups have surprisingly similar views of their SNS use in relation to attaining information about the horse. ‘Stable cultures’ and the organized structure of equestrian sports appear to create boundaries determining where a ‘good equestrian’ should seek information about horse-keeping. However, the organized structure and traditional nature of this sport do not stop equestrians from turning to SNS.

• Radmann, Aage & Hedenborg, Susanna (2019). Gender trouble in digital football fandom : a Swedish perspective. In Lawrence, Stefan & Crawford, Garry (Ed.), Digital football cultures : fandom, identities and resistance. Routledge. ISSN 978-0-8153-6020-9. p. 86–103. doi: 10.4324/9781351118903-6.
• Radmann, Aage & Hedenborg, Susanna (2018). Women's football supporter culture in Sweden. In Pfister, Gertrud & Pope, Stacey (Ed.), Female football players and fans : intruding into a man's world. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-1-137-59024-4. p. 241–258. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-59025-1_11.
• Radmann, Aage & Andersson, Torbjörn (2018). Sweden. In De Waele, Jean-Michel; Gibril, Suzan; Gloriozova, Ekaterina & Spaaij, Ramón (Ed.), The Palgrave international handbook of football and politics. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-3-319-78776-3. p. 139–161.
• Radmann, Aage (2016). Våldslandskapet i den svenska supporterkulturen. In Edling, Christofer & Rostami, Amir (Ed.), Våldets sociala dimensioner : individ, relation, organisation. Studentlitteratur AB. ISSN 978-91-44-11508-5. p. 141–166.
• Radmann, Aage (2015). Hit and tell – Swedish hooligan narratives. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. ISSN 1743-0437. 18(2), p. 202–218. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2013.854476.
• Radmann, Aage (2014). Hooligans: nice guys or the last alpha males? A study of football supporters’ self-image. Soccer and Society. ISSN 1466-0970. 15(4), p. 548–563. doi: 10.1080/14660970.2013.828597.
• Radmann, Aage (2012). Creating a (hooligan) narrative: Media’s construction of football violence. Scandinavian Sport Studies Forum. ISSN 2000-088X. 3, p. 97–120. Show summary

  The purpose of this article is to interpret and analyze the phenomenon of football hooliganism as presented in old print media and new digital media. A central issue explored in this article is possible differences between descriptions of the event in the old and new media. Research of the old media’s concept of hooliganism shows that media can create a panic that leads to demands for stricter regulations. In this article I have tried to demonstrate that discussions are even more fierce in some types of new media. It is difficult to clearly distinguish between old and new media. Descriptions and interpretations of the football landscape in the old media create the impression that Swedish football has Z problem with meaningless violence and increasing hooliganism. The high-risk supporters are depicted as a serious threat to Swedish football, and as enemies of football in general. However, this narrative is also repeated by parts of the new media. In this article, I contextualize (media) images of a hooligan event and make visible the power struggle between different media actors around the question of “good football culture” versus “hooliganism”, a tug-of-war that will affect the Swedish football landscape to the core.

• Radmann, Aage (2012). The New Media and Hooliganism : Constructing Media Identities. In Krøvel, Roy Gunnar & Roksvold, Thore Aksel (Ed.), We Love to Hate Each Other. Mediated Football Fan Culture. Nordicom. ISSN 978-91-86523-35-0. p. 171–188.
• Andersson, Torbjörn & Radmann, Aage (1999). Everything in moderation : the Swedish model. In Armstrong, Gary & Giulianotti, Richard (Ed.), Football cultures and identities. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 0333730100. p. 67–76.
• Andersson, Torbjörn & Radmann, Aage (1998). Football fans in Scandinavia: 1900-1997. In Brown, Adam (Eds.), Fanatics! : power,identity and fandom in football. Routledge. ISSN 0415181038. p. 141–157.
• Radmann, Aage (1996). The fans in Scandinavia 1900-1995. Swedish Journal of Sport Research. ISSN 2001-6018. p. 2–19.
• Radmann, Aage (1994). Fotball-EM 92 : en studie av kveldspressen. Swedish Journal of Sport Research. ISSN 2001-6018. p. 124–148.

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• Radmann, Aage (2015). Vad är huliganism? Arx förlag. ISBN 978-91-87043-51-2. 150 p.
• Andersson, Torbjörn & Radmann, Aage (1998). Från gentleman till huligan? : svensk fotbollskultur förr och nu. Symposion Brutus Östlings bokförlag. ISBN 91-7139-402-8. 166 p.

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• Hedenborg, Susanna; Svensson, Daniel & Radmann, Aage (2022). Global challenges and innovations in sport: effects of Covid-19 on sport. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics. ISSN 1743-0437. 25(7), p. 1227–1230. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2022.2038878.
• Radmann, Aage; Rudd, James Robert & Gjølme, Egil Galaaen (2022). Sustainable social and educational integration through sport activities – A Romanian case study. .
• Radmann, Aage & Hedenborg, Susanna (2022). Introduction: female fandom studies in a global perspective. Soccer and Society. ISSN 1466-0970. 23(3), p. 241–244. doi: 10.1080/14660970.2022.2037206.
• Hedenborg, Susanna & Radmann, Aage (2021). Equestrian sports in media through hundred Olympic years : A roundtrip from focus to shade and back again? In Jackson, Daniel; Bernstein, Alina; Butterworth, Michael; Cho, Younghan; Coombs, Danielle Sarver; Devlin, Michael & Onwumechili, Chuka (Ed.), Olympic and Paralympic Analysis 2020: Mega events, media, and the politics of sport : early reflections from leading academics. Bournemouth university. ISSN 9781910042335. p. 51–51.
• Broms, Lovisa; Bentzen, Marte; Radmann, Aage & Hedenborg, Susanna (2021). Stable cultures in cyberspace: A study about equestrians’ use of social media as knowledge platforms | A summary. Idrottsforum.org - Nordic Sport Studies Forum. ISSN 1652-7224.
• Gurholt, Kirsti Pedersen; Radmann, Aage; Bischoff, Anette; Haukeland, Per Ingvar; Stokke, Knut Bjørn & Stensland, Stian [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2018). Kunnskapsløft for friluftsliv må til. Show summary

  Kronikk, Publisert 25. mai 2018 på NIH-bloggen, www.nih.no, og på Idrottsforum.org 15. juni 2018, https://idrottsforum.org/feature-gurholtetal180615/

• Radmann, Aage (2016). Idrott och media. In Hedenborg, Susanna (Eds.), Idrottsvetenskap : en introduktion. Studentlitteratur AB. ISSN 978-91-44-07468-9. p. 193–210.
• Hedenborg, Susanna & Radmann, Aage (2015). The importance of being welcoming and open-minded. In Hofmann, Annette R.; Gems, Gerald & Hedenborg, Susanna (Ed.), Global Scholar Global Spirit: Gertrud Pfister. CreateSpace. ISSN 978-1519323415. p. 73–75.
• Radmann, Aage (2013). Det svenska Firmalandskapet – rapport 2012. In Eriksson, Björn & Dellså, Stefan (Ed.), Mera glädje för pengarna : slutbetänkande. Fritze. ISSN 978-91-38-23911-7. p. 415–454.
• Radmann, Aage (2012). Idrottsvåldets karaktär : en forsknings- och kunskapsinventering. In Eriksson, Björn & Dellså, Stefan (Ed.), Mindre våld för pengarna : Delbetänkande. Fritzes. ISSN 978-91-38-23714-4. p. 235–304.
• Radmann, Aage (2013). Huliganlandskapet : medier, våld och maskuliniteter. Malmö högskola.
• Radmann, Aage (1999). Fotbollslandskapet : fotboll som socialt fenomen. Lund universitet. ISSN 91-89078-81-0.

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