Chronotopes and Social Types in South Korean Digital Gaming

Rea, Stephen C.

doi:10.1086/700704

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“…The prejudice against PC Bangs is ironic, considering how they provided 24-hour low-cost internet access when broadband subscriptions were too expensive for many Korean households during the 1990s. Moreover, it was at PC Bangs that the first informal gaming tournaments began that eventually led to the popularity of esports (Rea, 2019).…”

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“…As opposed to the value placed on pro-gamers as ambassadors of nations' soft power, Rea (2019) throws light on how gamers playing non-competitive games such as Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games in PC Bangs (Korean internet cafés) are lamented as social outcasts in South Korea. The author points out that, unlike the grandeur of a professional StarCraft match, PC Bang, with its low indoor illumination, shuttered windows, and regulated temperatures, creates an aura of isolation from the outside world and is a place where gamers are found playing for days in seclusion, losing a sense of time.…”

Section: Socio-cultural Appeal Of Pro-gamersmentioning

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Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review

Bihari

Pattanaik

2023

Games and Culture

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Professional gaming is organized competitive digital gameplay supported by advertisers and businesses. With its rising popularity and spectatorship, virtual gaming as a profession is now a reality. The aim of this paper is to evaluate peer-reviewed articles from the past two decades that empirically examine gaming as a profession or the myriad facets of being a professional gamer published in scholarly journals. The themes that emerge from the results of the included studies ( n = 32) are (a) the socio-cultural appeal of gaming as a profession, (b) socio-psychological elements of pro-gamers’ everyday lives, and (c) the health and physiology of pro-gamers. It is found that the literature on health and physiology ( n = 14) overshadows other dimensions of pro-gaming in academic research. In conclusion, studies must reflect on gamers’ legal status as working professionals, their organizational contracts, and the legality of the industry country by country to fill the research gap.

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Section: Socio-cultural Appeal Of Pro-gamersmentioning

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Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review

Bihari

Pattanaik

2023

Games and Culture

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“…However, only a minority of players are professionals. Nonprofessional gamers constitute the bulk of e-sports players (Abbas, Jasim, and Nsaif 2019; Rea 2019). Whereas spectators participate passively, nonprofessional players actively participate in e-sports competitions.…”

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It’s Not Just a Game: Virtual Edgework and Subjective Well-Being in E-Sports

Raggiotto¹,

Scarpi²

2022

Journal of Interactive Marketing

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The authors investigate subjective well-being in the context of e-sports (competitive video games). They adopt the theoretical lenses of virtual edgework theory, a recent adaptation of edgework theory from physical to digital contexts. Sports have long been used as a tool to improve subjective well-being. The research question is whether e-sports lead to well-being, as their physical sport counterparts do, and through what psychological mechanisms. The authors answer through a conceptual model of moderated mediation tested on hundreds of e-sports players. They also address the role of privacy concerns, as e-sports pose several potential threats to players’ privacy that could hinder players’ achievement of well-being. Findings suggest that virtual edgework provides a useful theoretical perspective for understanding consumers’ behavior in digital environments. They also show that e-sports can lead to well-being by achieving feelings of self-enhancement under the positive moderation of perceived control over the digital environment and the negative moderation of privacy concerns.

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“…Questions of new media's impact on genres of parenting are explored by Smith and Barad (2018), who consider the tribulations of Peruvian parents who, seeing the negative effects of gaming on boys, attempt to disrupt their friendship networks as a means to control their socialization. At the same time, Rea (2019) considers different chronotopic figures of South Korean gamers that have arisen in light of the infrastructural changes to Internet speeds, while Robles and Parks (2019) closely analyze focus‐group and interview participants to consider the complaint genre that has arisen about new technologies—no doubt one in which we have all engaged.…”

Section: Uncertain Remediations: Communicative Technologies and Inframentioning

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Uncertain Times: Linguistic Anthropology in 2019

Paz

2020

American Anthropologist

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This year, linguistic and semiotic anthropologists are responding in particular to multiple sources of uncertainty and discuss a growing sense of crisis and anxiety across several different settings and contexts. The politics of truth and the uncertainty about the future, as well as the shifts due to new communicative technologies, are well represented in this last year of publications. To consider this collective response, this article reviews published work in this field in three parts: (1) the semiotic interplay of certainty and uncertainty, especially in relation to evidence and agency; (2) the remediation of semiosis across media technologies and infrastructures; and (3) the semiosis of the state‐citizen divide. More generally, this review considers how linguistic/semiotic anthropologists are renewing foundational concepts and approaches at the same time as they express a strong desire to turn their expertise into a more public form of political agency. This process of renewal is leading to the emergence of new agendas. [language, semiotics, uncertainty, media, state]

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Chronotopes and Social Types in South Korean Digital Gaming

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review

Professional Gaming and Pro-Gamers: What Do We Know So Far? A Systematic Review

It’s Not Just a Game: Virtual Edgework and Subjective Well-Being in E-Sports

Uncertain Times: Linguistic Anthropology in 2019

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