Editors:
- Furthers understanding of esports as a form of entertainment and sport
- Posits esports as a facilitator for communication and interaction in co-creative activities
- 15 chapters from game cultures and esports scholars across ten different nationalities
- Open Access publication allows for wide-reaching use
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Playing Overwatch
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
The book starts with an introduction chapter to Overwatch and esports engagement in general, co-authored by the editors. This is followed by 15 unique chapters from scholars within the field of game cultures and esports, representing ten different nationalities. The contributions construct thematicsections that divide the book into three parts: Players, Diverse Audiences? and Fan & Fiction Work. As such, the parts provide a wide-ranging overview of esport engagement, thus disclosing the phenomenon’s cross-cultural, transmedial, and interconnected relations that have not been probed earlier in a single anthology.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Maria Ruotsalainen, Veli-Matti Karhulahti
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Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Maria Törhönen
About the editors
Dr. Maria Törhönen is a researcher and a project manager at Tampere University, Finland. Maria’s research focuses on the merger of work and play, especially in the context of streaming and esports. Maria is also a founding and board member of the Esports Research Network and has worked in game development prior to her academic career.
Veli-Matti Karhulahti is Senior Researcher at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and holds an Adjunct Professorship at the University of Turku, Finland. His research tackles gaming, play, and technology use in many ways, and he is the author of Esport Play: Anticipation, Attachment, and Addiction in Psycholudic Development (2020).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
Editors: Maria Ruotsalainen, Maria Törhönen, Veli-Matti Karhulahti
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82767-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82766-3Published: 10 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82769-4Published: 10 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82767-0Published: 09 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 229
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Culture, Media and Communication