Table of Contents

Chapter 1: What is Esports?
Chapter 2: Can Video Games be a Sport? Debating and Complicating Esports as Physical Competitions
Chapter 3: The Origins of Esports: A Half-Century History of an "Overnight" Success
Chapter 4: Competition Formats in Esports
Chapter 5: No Time for Lag: Newspaper Coverage of Esports, 2000-2018
Chapter 6: Esport Spectator Motivation
Chapter 7: The Esports Consumer Experience
Chapter 8: The Motivations of Esports Players
Chapter 9: Fighting Games and Social Play
Chapter 10: Sports Video Games (SVGs) in the Esports Landscape
Chapter 11: Not Your Average Sunday Driver: The Formula 1 Esports Series World Championship
Chapter 12: Counter-Strike or Counterpublic? Audience Creation, Transnational Discourses, and the Rhetorical Legitimation of Esports in TBS's ELEAGUE
Chapter 13: The Law of Esports
Chapter 14: Leveraging Esports in Higher Education

About the Author

Ryan Rogers is assistant professor of sports media and media production at Butler University.

Reviews

Esports is a field that is emerging rapidly in schools, communities, industry, and educational research, and may well become a crucial new source of modern learning for collaboration and technology. This book is an excellent user manual for an exciting ride into uncharted territory.
*James Paul Gee, Arizona State University*