This book examines the bodies, communities, and cultures that evolve in different online doping spaces. By engaging in critical analysis of the interrelatedness of online and offline doped realities, the book provides a comprehensive analysis influenced by digital sociology and feminist theory. It focuses on the intersection of doping, bodies, and technology, and is structured around three interconnected themes prominent in doping research but less acknowledged in online environments: doping spaces and communities; gender and power relationships; and the relationship between online activities and offline social life.
Building on extensive online research with different drug communities and doping spaces, the authors illustrate how the online world of doping has developed into a digital ecosystem, and present an argument for understanding doping as a cyborgified concept.
It will be of interest to students and researchers of sport and digital sociology, media studies, social work, drug studies and gender studies
Author(s): Jesper Andreasson, April Henning
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 181
City: London
Preface and Acknowledgements
Contents
1: Introduction
Performing Bodies and Technology
Doping Research: Development and Situatedness
Aim and Focus
Digital Sociology and Data
Book Outline
References
2: The Cultural History and Digitalisation of Doping
Introduction
From Experimentation to Initial Problematisation
The Cleaning Up and Commercialisation of Performance Cultures
Online Doping: Early User Communities of the Twenty-First Century
From Bazaars to an Online Ecosystem?
Digital Bodies and Technology in the Online Doping Ecosystem
Bodies and Technology
Online Narratives of the Self
The Cultural Space: The Online Doping Ecosystem
Conclusions
References
3: Community Trajectories Within the Online Doping Ecosystem
Introduction
Individuals and Their (Online) Environment
Flashback and MESO-Rx
Information for Harm-Reduction
Rules of Engagement: The Doping Template
Harm Reduction: “Givin’ the Green” and Lab Testing
Conclusions
References
4: Digital Doping Bodies and Diversities
Introduction
Doped Bodies
The Genetic Max
Body Aesthetics in the Zyzz Fandom
Rays of Sunshine
Conclusions
References
5: Tales from a Women-Only Forum
Introduction
Centring Women’s Experiences and Narratives of Self
Women’s Forums
Advice, By and For Women
“Coaching” and Sis-Science
Conclusions
References
6: Masculinities Between Fantasy and the Real: “Falling Down the Rabbit Fuck Hole”
Introduction
From Harm and Pleasure Perspectives...
...to the Interface Between the Spectacle and the Real
Hyper-sexual Bodies and Spectacular Masculinities
Doping Reality: Inability and Restored Capacities
IPEDs, Sex, and Relationships
Conclusions
References
7: Transcending Online and Offline Doping
The Ontological Turn and Doping
Risk and Enabling, Online and Off
Offline Realities, Online Responses
Bodies, Dynamic and Stable
Conclusion
References
8: Conclusions: The “Cyborgification” of the Doping Phenomenon
Introduction
The Ecosystem of Online Doping
Cultural Manspreading: Upholding, Challenging, and Evolving
Harm, Risk, and Possibilities: Doping and Transcendence
The “Cyborgification” of the Doping Phenomenon
References
Appendix: Digital Methodology and Methods
Introduction
Methodology and Method
Internet Ethics
Study Positionality: Pursuing the Role the Trickster
References
Index
