Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch
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| Summary: | XVII, 229 p. 31 illus. text |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2022.
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| Udgivelse: | 1st ed. 2022. |
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| Online adgang: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82767-0 |
| Format: | Electronisk eBog |
Indholdsfortegnelse:
- 1. Introduction; Maria Ruotsalainen, Maria Törhönen & Veli-Matti Karhulahti
- 2. Two Overwatch Player Profiles; Jukka Vahlo & Veli-Matti Karhulahti
- 3. One Tricks, Hero Picks, and Player Politics: Highlighting the Casual-Competitive Divide in the Overwatch Forums; Courtney Blamey
- 4. The Player’s Interpretative Agency and the Developer’s Disruptive Powers: How Blizzard Entertainment Enforces Authorial Intention in Overwatch; Joleen Blom
- 5. Player Reception of Change and Stability in Character Mechanics; Tanja Välisalo & Maria Ruotsalainen
- 6. “KKona Where’s Your Sense of Patriotism?” - Positioning Nationality in the Spectatorship of Competitive Overwatch Play; Marko Siitonen & Maria Ruotsalainen
- 7. A Region of Contenders: Overwatch in Brazil; Mayara Caetano
- 8. Gender and Toxic Meritocracy in Competitive Overwatch: Case “Ellie”; Usva Friman & Maria Ruotsalainen
- 9. Overwatch Fandom and the Range of Corporate Responses; Hanna Wirman & Rhys Jones
- 10. Overwatch to Oversnatch: The Mutually Reinforcing Gendered Power Relations of Pornography, Streaming, and Esports; Thomas Apperley
- 11. The Talk of the Town: Community Perspectives on Loot Boxes; Joseph Macey & Mila Bujić.