[Commlist] Cfp "Media, Society and Cycling Cultures" (Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences, Vol. 5/2022)

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Eracle. Journal of Sport and Social Sciences (ISSN 2611-6693)
Call for papers Vol. 5 (2022)

Media, Society, and Cycling Cultures
Editors: Paolo Landri & Mario Tirino

The Coronavirus emergency, the regime of social distancing have 
revitalised the bicycle as a means of transport in urban and suburban 
areas. The post-pandemic scenario also makes it possible to conceive of 
the bicycle as a vector of transformation and social innovation, with 
wider effects on cycling tourism and sport. The new post-Covid19 
mobility needs are linked to the green transition framework, reflecting 
the emerging Zeitgest towards sustainable mobility modes.
The interdisciplinary field of study ‘Cycling and Society’ represents a 
part of mobility studies (Buscher, Urry, & Witchger, 2011). Cycling 
studies (Urry, 2004) start from a critique of ‘automobility’, the 
dominant paradigm of contemporary mobility. They try to outline post-car 
mobility scenarios and focus on ‘velomobility’ (Horton, Rosen, & Cox, 
2007; Cox, 2020) as a practice characterised by high historical, 
anthropological, and cultural variability.
With the aim of contributing to this field of study, and notably to 
understand the conditions for the spread of cycling as practice, this 
call for papers invites articles focusing on the increasing 
mediatization (Frandsen, 2019, Tirino, 2019) and platformization of the 
experience of cycling. The long history of cycling is interlaced with 
the development of media, as it is for many sports.
However, the availability of social media and digital platforms is 
reshaping the experience of cycling as a practice and culture and there 
is a need to map how it is happening and with what effects. By 
considering cycling practice as mediated by technology, body, language, 
and rules (Gherardi, 2010, 2012) we kindly invite you to send articles, 
from various disciplinary approaches, addressing the following questions:

● To what extent, the current digitalization develops within the history 
of the relationship between media and cycling? Are there continuities? 
Or discontinuities?
● How the experience and practice of cycling is being reshaped by social 
media narratives and usage (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) as a sport and as 
an everyday activity?
● How do digital platforms (Strava, Komoot, etc) interlace with the 
practice of cycling? How does it work?
● How do digital ecosystems give raise to the emergence of e-cycling? Is 
it a new sport? Or not?
● What are the effects of datafication of cycling? Are they enabling 
conditions for the spread of cycling? Are they enclosed in the 
mechanisms of extractive capitalism of data?
● What are the methodological challenges to studying the relationship 
between media, platforms, and cycling? Are we in need of digital native 
methods to fully grasp this contemporary phenomenon?
● What are the connections between cycling, lifestyles, and subcultures 
in the digital age? How are different modes of cycling experience being 
told and remediated by social media and digital platforms?
● What forms does cycling fandom take in the digital media age? What 
kind of relationships develop between professional cyclists and their 
audiences?
● What role do media, platforms, and digital information resources play 
in the relationship between local governments and cyclists? How do media 
narratives contribute to the promotion and enhancement of a place 
through cycling tourism?
● In the context of e-sports, do video games dedicated to cycling 
promote or not a greater knowledge of the discipline and a stimulus to 
practice? What are the relationships between videogames and 
non-competitive cycling?
● What are the effects of the mediatization and platformization of 
cycling on issues such as gender, environmental sustainability, social 
inclusion, and migration?


Proposals can be written in English, Italian or Spanish and must be sent 
to: (paolo.landri /at/ irpps.cnr.it) <mailto:(paolo.landri /at/ irpps.cnr.it)>; 
(mtirino /at/ unisa.it) <mailto:(mtirino /at/ unisa.it)>.
Closing date for abstracts submission: March 20, 2022
Notification to the authors: March 31, 2022
Articles submission deadline: May 31, 2022
Articles assessment: June 30, 2022
Final version submission: until July 31, 2022
Publication: September, 2022
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No payment from the authors will be required.

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