Understanding Esports (eBook)

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