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On the Digital Playing Field How We “Do Sport” With Networked Computer Games
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In asking is there a “sport” in e-sports, this study questions the legitimacy of a traditional sports ontology and simultaneously tackles the notion of engagement with computer game play as a legitimate sporting endeavor.Abstract:
In the following article, the author explores the notion of playing computer games as sports by sketching out the labors and sensations of Counter-Strike teams playing at pro/am e-sports local area...read more
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What Is eSports and Why Do People Watch It
Juho Hamari,Max Sjöblom +1 more
TL;DR: The results indicate that escapism, acquiring knowledge about the games being played, novelty and eSports athlete aggressiveness were found to positively predict eSport spectating frequency.
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What is eSports and why do people watch it
Juho Hamari,Max Sjöblom +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate why people spectate eSports on the internet and find that escapism, acquiring knowledge about the games being played, novelty and eSports athlete aggressiveness positively predict eSport spectating frequency.
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eSports – Competitive sports or recreational activity?
Kirstin Hallmann,Thomas Giel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reflect on whether eSports can be considered as sport based on evaluating five characteristics of sport and assessing them for eSports, and different opportunities how marketers and managers can attend to eSports are outlined.
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The Psychology of Esports: A Systematic Literature Review
TL;DR: It is suggested that future research should focus on esport players’ psychological vulnerability because some studies have begun to investigate the difference between problematic and professional gambling and this might provide insights into whether the playing of esports could also be potentially problematic for some players.
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Esports Research: A Literature Review:
TL;DR: In this paper, the amount of academic research focused on organized, competitive games has grown rapidly, and from 2002 through March 2018, esports research has developed rapidly in the academic literature.
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the difficulty of being an ANT and the difficulties of tracing the social networks of a social network and how to re-trace the social network.
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The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill
TL;DR: The Perception of the Environment as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays focusing on the procurement of livelihood, what it means to "dwell" and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before.
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Sport in Society: Issues and Controversies
TL;DR: The socology of sport has been studied extensively in the past and the present, see as discussed by the authors for a survey of some of the main areas of interest in sport in the social sciences.
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The Perception of the Environment
TL;DR: Ong as mentioned in this paper argued that the interiorizing force of the oral word relates in a special way to the sacral, to the ultimate concerns of existence, and that hearing binds people together in community; vision isolates the individual vis-a-vis the world.
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From Ritual to Record: The Nature of Modern Sports
TL;DR: The Fascination of FootballIndividualism Reconsidered: A Retrospective Critique from Ritual to Record as discussed by the authors is a good starting point for this discussion.Play, Games, Contests, SportsFrom Ritual to recordCapitalism, Protestantism, and Modern SportWhy Baseball Was Our National Game