“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports

Harris, Brandon C.; Hansen, Jared; Can, Onder; Rahman, Md Waseq Ur; Foxman, Maxwell; Coté, Amanda C.; Fickle, Tara

doi:10.1080/15295036.2022.2030484

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“…Esports programs attract various stakeholders on campuses, and the backgrounds of such individuals affect the implementation of programs. This is especially true of the students themselves, who often function as the players and operators of esports endeavors (Harris et al, 2022;Taylor, 2020). In general, the involvement of multiple stakeholders with diverging interests in collegiate esports programs can lead to inconsistent oversight and organizational challenges (Cote et al, 2023).…”

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Where Do Amateurs Go to Become Pros? A Comparison of the Current Competition Systems in Collegiate Esports to Traditional Collegiate Sport Environments

Fisackerly,

Hwang

2024

Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports

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Researchers are interested in how the collegiate esports model can follow that of the traditional sports talent pipelines. This piece seeks to conceptualize the manifestations of collegiate esports unique from traditional sports, as it integrates into the higher education model. In the current esports ecosystem, game developers own all intellectual property associated with the games and thus run the operations of leagues and/or tournaments themselves. Because of this, the pipeline seen in traditional sports is not transferrable or mimicked in the collegiate esports realm. The result is unique considerations for higher education administrators and coordinators regarding the retention of players and their recruitment from other institutions and professional circles. This line of research will lay the foundation for future studies in collegiate esports and assist in building the literature on the esports ecosystem.

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Where Do Amateurs Go to Become Pros? A Comparison of the Current Competition Systems in Collegiate Esports to Traditional Collegiate Sport Environments

Fisackerly,

Hwang

2024

Journal of Electronic Gaming and Esports

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Crowd Pleasers: Exploring Motivations and Measures of Success among Independent Sports Podcasters

Taylor¹

2023

Journal of Radio & Audio Media

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Exploring College Students’ Perceptions of Esports and Esports Academic Programs

Hwang

Kim

2023

Sport Management Education Journal

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This study examined how college students’ gender and prior participation in esports affect their perceptions of esports and esports academic programs. After collecting data from college students (N = 162), data were analyzed using 2 × 2 factorial analysis of variance to compare the influence of esports participation, gender, and the interaction effect on perception. Both esports participation, F(1, 150) = 13.78, p < .001, and gender, F(1, 150) = 4.82, p < .05, were significantly associated with esports perception. For the perception of esports academic programs, only esports participation was significant, F(1, 150) = 5.85, p < .05. Men reported positive perceptions, and this phenomenon was amplified in groups with prior esports experience. The authors suggest avenues to embrace esports in higher education, reflecting the findings of this research.

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“Starting from scratch to looking really clean and professional”: how students’ productive labor legitimizes collegiate esports

Cited by 5 publications

References 29 publications

Where Do Amateurs Go to Become Pros? A Comparison of the Current Competition Systems in Collegiate Esports to Traditional Collegiate Sport Environments

Where Do Amateurs Go to Become Pros? A Comparison of the Current Competition Systems in Collegiate Esports to Traditional Collegiate Sport Environments

Crowd Pleasers: Exploring Motivations and Measures of Success among Independent Sports Podcasters

Exploring College Students’ Perceptions of Esports and Esports Academic Programs

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