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Digital platforms have generated content ripe for analysis but have also created methodological, practical and ethical challenges. This book critically examines qualitative research in the digital space and offers novel insights into how the rise of new technology is helping to shape sport and exercise studies.

This volume brings together articles, original essays and critical reflections on physical culture and the body today. Covering conceptual, methodological and empirical topics from phenomenology and feminist ethnography to basketball, boxing and cycling, this is an essential text for anyone interested in the body as a focus of the research act.

The book features chapters written by authors from different research backgrounds, who present the findings of a previously published 'classic' study rewritten in the form of a story. Reflective chapters focusing on the how-to and the challenges of this practice complete the work, to support scholars in developing their creative skills.

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explicit call for anti-colonial approaches - challenging scholars of physical culture to interrogate and write against the colonial assumptions at work in so many physical cultural and academic spaces.

Digital platforms have generated content ripe for analysis but have also created methodological, practical and ethical challenges. This book critically examines qualitative research in the digital space and offers novel insights into how the rise of new technology is helping to shape sport and exercise studies.