Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming

By T. Taylor. 2012

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

What is a True Gamer? The Male Gamer Stereotype and the Marginalization of Women in Video Game Culture (2017, background): “For women, the opposite is likely to happen: because their gendered identity conflicts with the gamer identity (Storla, 2011; T. L. Taylor, 2012, pp. 122–125) they may be less likely to describe themselves in terms of the gamer-stereotype.”
Esports Research: A Literature Review (2019, background): “…esports spaces and as “the development of a nascent professional infrastructure [includes] features familiar from the world of physical sports of entertainment, including tournaments, leagues, fans, teams, team owners, player contracts, sponsors, and the like” (T. L. Taylor, 2012; via Burk, 2013).”
Why do people play games? A meta-analysis (2017, background): “…2014; Hamari et al. 2016; Huotari & Hamari 2016; McGonigal 2011) as well as increasingly as a eSport (Hamari & Sjöblom 2017; Sjöblom & Hamari 2016; Taylor 2012), although commonly held legacy causes most to still consider games as mere hedonic systems that are solely played by pre-adolescent…”
What Did I Do Wrong in My MOBA Game? Mining Patterns Discriminating Deviant Behaviours (2016, unknown): “…new scene called electronic sports (eSports) has emerged, where the most skilled players (also referred to as gamers ) are hired by professional teams and supported by sponsors to take part in large international competitions [31] widely followed on live streaming platforms such as Twitch.tv [23].”
What is eSports and why do people watch it? (2017, background): “We believe that in a quest to define eSports we should focus more deeply on what constitutes the “e” in eSports (for more cultural descriptions of eSports, please see: Taylor, 2012; Taylor and Witkowski, 2010; Witkowski, 2009, 2012).”