Understanding Esports (eBook, PDF)

An Introduction to the Global Phenomenon
Redaktion: Rogers, Ryan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Esports: An Introduction to the Global Phenomenon places professional Esports, a rapidly growing industry, in both the cultural and athletic landscape. This book explores how the rise of professional gaming has shaped-and been shaped by-media trends, interpersonal communication, and what it means to be classified as an athlete. Ryan Rogers has assembled contributors from a variety of backgrounds and experiences in order to provide a broad view of the history, experience, and impact of professional gaming. Scholars of media studies, communication, sports, and cultural studies will find this book especially useful.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978750050
• Artikelnr.: 74397347

Autorenporträt

Ryan Rogers is assistant professor of sports media and media production at Butler University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: What is Esports?
Chapter 2: Can Video Games be a Sport? Debating and Complicating Esports as
Physical Competitions
Chapter 3: The Origins of Esports: A Half-Century History of an "Overnight"
Success
Chapter 4: Competition Formats in Esports
Chapter 5: No Time for Lag: Newspaper Coverage of Esports, 2000-2018
Chapter 6: Esport Spectator Motivation
Chapter 7: The Esports Consumer Experience
Chapter 8: The Motivations of Esports Players
Chapter 9: Fighting Games and Social Play
Chapter 10: Sports Video Games (SVGs) in the Esports Landscape
Chapter 11: Not Your Average Sunday Driver: The Formula 1 Esports Series
World Championship
Chapter 12: Counter-Strike or Counterpublic? Audience Creation,
Transnational Discourses, and the Rhetorical Legitimation of Esports in
TBS's ELEAGUE
Chapter 13: The Law of Esports
Chapter 14: Leveraging Esports in Higher Education