Raising The Stakes: E-Sports and The Professionalization of Gaming

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Raising the Stakes E Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming MIT Press

This item appears on List: From Analogue to Digital: Games and Gaming Section: Taylor has been noted as providing insight into the emerging world of live-streaming, professional esports , [5] the dynamics of ethnic stereotyping in virtual worlds, [6] the relationship between the self-expression of players in a virtual world and designers' imperatives, [7] and as challenging the perceived dichotomy between online and offline experience.

It explored the social aspects of play, powergaming , gender, and the creative practices of players including intellectual property implications.

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She visited the World Cyber Games , as well as a number of other tournaments and did interviews with a variety of participants in professional competitive gaming. The book looks at a number of topics in esports, including their status as sports , [2] rulesets and competitive play, gender, and spectatorship and performance.

Raising the stakes: e-sports and the professionalization of computer gaming

In addition to her work on these subjects, she has also spoken and written on doing ethnographic work that spans both online and offline sites. A Handbook of Method Princeton, From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

For the English cricketer, see Tom Taylor Yorkshire cricketer.