Mobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava

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dc.abstract.enAmateur cycling enthusiasts are increasingly engaged in digital media ecosystems that serve as mediating platforms for both indoor and outdoor cycling activities. The rationale for using particular solutions, technological affordances of the platforms and social media discourses all actively shape cycling narratives. This study critically examines practices associated with the Zwift and Strava platforms among a selected group of Eastern Europeans, based on an extended online questionnaire with open and closed questions (n = 80) and individual in-depth interviews (n = 10). Auxiliary data features analysis of social media and YouTube content closely related to the questionnaire's respondents. Building on the notions of mHealth technologies, the findings include an in-depth analysis of four main frames of reference emerging from the analyzed discourses on amateur cycling: social, hardcore, exploration, and training.
dc.affiliationInstytut Nauk Humanistycznych
dc.affiliationWydział Nauk Humanistycznych w Warszawie
dc.contributor.authorFelczak, Mateusz
dc.contributor.authorFiliciak, Mirosław
dc.date.access2025-04-21
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-29T10:06:15Z
dc.date.available2025-04-29T10:06:15Z
dc.date.created2025-03-24
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>Amateur cycling enthusiasts are increasingly engaged in digital media ecosystems that serve as mediating platforms for both indoor and outdoor cycling activities. The rationale for using particular solutions, technological affordances of the platforms and social media discourses all actively shape cycling narratives. This study critically examines practices associated with the Zwift and Strava platforms among a selected group of Eastern Europeans, based on an extended online questionnaire with open and closed questions (n = 80) and individual in-depth interviews (n = 10). Auxiliary data features analysis of social media and YouTube content closely related to the questionnaire's respondents. Building on the notions of mHealth technologies, the findings include an in-depth analysis of four main frames of reference emerging from the analyzed discourses on amateur cycling: social, hardcore, exploration, and training.</jats:p>
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dc.description.grantnumber2019/33/B/HS2/02856
dc.description.granttitleFollowing the smartphone: Ethnography of the emergent urban cultures of networked individuals
dc.description.versionfinal_published
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/10126902251333566
dc.identifier.eissn1461-7218
dc.identifier.issn1012-6902
dc.identifier.urihttps://share.swps.edu.pl/handle/swps/1435
dc.languageen
dc.pbn.affiliationnauki o kulturze i religii
dc.rightsCC-BY
dc.rights.questionYes_rights
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dc.subject.enCycling
dc.subject.enZwift
dc.subject.enStrava
dc.subject.ensocial media
dc.subject.enEastern Europe
dc.swps.sciencecloudnosend
dc.titleMobile health cycling: How Eastern European amateur cycling enthusiasts frame their experiences with Zwift and Strava
dc.title.journalInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typeArticle