The esports market has been growing exponentially has been growing exponentially with
much interest from industry and academia. Perhaps because of this growth, there is a lack of …

Professionalised competitive digital gaming or 'esports' has grown to a point where millions
of dollars are being awarded in competitions watched globally by tens of millions of viewers …

'Gamification'is understood as the application of game systems–competition, rewards,
quantifying player/user behaviour–into non-game domains, such as work, productivity and …

Guided by social role theory and the extant literature, the purpose of this investigation was to
examine the gender differences in esports spectating motives and points of attachment. A …

The live streaming platform Twitch underwent in recent years an impressive growth in terms
of viewership and content diversity. The platform has been the object of several studies …

The commercial and social ascendance of esports has become a source of considerable
organisational, industrial, experiential and identity-based concern for those inside and …

This study examined how collegiate esports players conceptualized their own competitive
gameplay as situated between work and play. Using interviews guided by Stebbins'(2007) …

Purpose Despite the advances in theory and practice about player behaviour in esports
gaming literature, there is a lack of understanding as to whether esports are compatible with …

This article advances a tentative theory of skill in relation to eSports. This conjectural theory
of skill rests on hypothesizes informed by assumptions from watching 100+ hours of eSport …

This article focuses on the interactivity afforded to audiences by the video game
livestreaming platform twitch. tv. Drawing on theories of audience labour, we explore what …