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e-sports and pro gaming literature

In addition to my own book on the subject (Raising the Stakes, MIT Press), there is a growing body of

scholarly research dedicated to exploring e-sports and competitive gaming. The following is not a complete

list but includes work that might be of interest to those looking for academic lit on the subject. Some of

these pieces are theses/dissertations so you’ll need to contact the authors directly to see if the material is

available.

Please feel free to email me with suggestions not currently on here.

Adamus, Tanja. 2012. “Playing computer games as electronic sport: In search of a theoretical framing for a

new research �eld.” In Computer Games and New Media Cultures: A Handbook of Digital Game Studies, J.

Fromme & Unger, A. (Eds.),pp. 477-490, Berlin: Springer.

Ash, James. 2012. “Technology, technicity, and emerging practices of temporal sensitivity in videogames.”

Environment and Planning A 44(1) 187 – 203.

Blum, Bryce (with co-authors). 2014. Foster Pepper whitepapers on legal issues in e-sports. Available at

http://www.foster.com/attorneys/bryce-blum.

Borowy, Michael and Dal Yong Jin. 2013. “Pioneering eSport: The experience economy and the marketing of

early 1980s arcade gaming contests.” International Journal of Communication, v. 7.

Bosc, G., M. Kaytoue, C. Raïssi, J-F. Boulicaut, and P. Tan. 2014. “Mining balanced patterns in real-time strategy

games.” LIRIS Research Report. (Extended version of paper presented at European Conference on Arti�cial

Intelligence – ECAI 2014.)

Bowman, Nick. 2013. “Facilitating game play: How others a�ect performance at and enjoyment of video

games.” Media Psychology, 16(1): 39-64.

Burk, Dan. 2013. “Owning e-Sports: Proprietary Rights in Professional Computer Gaming.” University of

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Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol 161, pp-1535-1578.

Carter, Marcus and Martin Gibbs. 2013. “eSports in EVE Online: Skullduggery, Fair Play and Acceptability in an

Unbounded Competition.” Foundations of Digital Games Conference, 14-17 May, Chania, Greece.

Low-Kam, C., C. Raïssi, M. Kaytoue, and J. Pei. 2013. “Mining statistically signi�cant sequential patterns,” ICDM

2013.

Chee, Florence and Richard K. Smith. 2005. “Online gamers and the ambiguity of community: Korean

de�nitions of togetherness for a new generation.” Internet Research Annual, volume 4. New York: Peter Lang.

Chen Christensen, Natasha. 2006. “Geeks at play: Doing masculinity in an online gaming site.” Reconstruction

6.1 (Winter).

Cheung, Gi�ord and Je� Huang. 2011. “Starcraft from the stands: Understanding the game spectator.” CHI ’11

Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems, ACM, 763-772.

Comerford, Sean. 2012. “Note: International intellectual property rights and the future of global ‘e-sports.'”

Brooklyn Journal of International Law, 37, 623.

Consalvo, Mia, Konstantin Mitgutsch, and Abe Stein (Eds.) 2013. Sports Videogames. New York: Routledge.

Conway, Steven. 2010. “‘It’s in the game’ and above the game.” Convergence 16 (3): 334- 354.

Crawford, Garry. 2005. “Digital gaming, sport, and gender.” Leisure Studies 24 (3): 259–270.

Crawford, Garry, and Victoria K. Gosling. 2009. “More Than a game: Sports-themed video games and player

narratives.” Sociology of Sport Journal 26: 50–66.

Ferrari, Simon. 2013. “Esport and the human body: Foundations for a popular aesthetics.” Proceedings of

DiGRA 2013: Defragging Game Studies, Atlanta, GA.

Gommesen, Niels. 2012. “The a�ective audience in professional e-sport: An exploration of spectators, and

their impact on video game playing.” MsC thesis, IT University of Copenhagen.

Hamilton, William, Oliver Garretson, and Andruid Kerne. 2014. “Streaming on Twitch: Fostering Participatory

Communities of Play within Live Mixed Media.” CHI 2014, April 26–May 1, 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Harry, Drew. 2012. Designing Complementary Communication Systems. PhD dissertation, MIT Media Lab,

Cambridge, MA.



Harper, Todd. 2010. The Art of War: Fighting Games, Performativity, and Social Game Play. PhD dissertation, Ohio

University.

Harper, Todd. 2014. The Culture of Digital Fighting Games: Performance and Practice. New York: Routledge.

Hinnant, Neal. 2013. “Practicing work, perfecting play: League of Legends and the sentimental education of e-

sports” MA thesis, Georgia State University, Dept. of Communication.

Hutchins, Brett. 2008. “Signs of meta-change in second modernity: The growth of e-sport and the World

Cyber Games.” New Media and Society 10 (6): 851–869.

Hutchins, Brett and David Rowe. 2012. Sport Beyond Television: The Internet, Digital Media and the Rise of

Networked Media Sport. London: Routledge.

Jin, Dal Yong. 2010. Korea’s Online Gaming Empire. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.

Jin, Dal Yong, and Florence Chee. 2009. “The politics of online gaming.” In Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-

Paci�c, ed. Larissa Hjorth and Dean Chan, 19–38. New York: Routledge.

Jonasson, Kalle and Jesper Thiborg. 2010. “Electronic sport and its impact on future sport.” Sport in Society 13

(2): 287–299.

Kane, Michael. 2008. Game Boys: Professional Videogaming’s Rise from the Basement to the Big Time. London:

Viking/Penguin Books. (non-academic)

Kaytoue, Mehdi and Chedy Raïssi. 2012. “Watch me playing, I am a professional.” WWW 2012 Companion. April

16–20, 2012, Lyon, France.

King, Brad, and John Borland. 2003. Dungeons and Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to

Chic. New York: McGraw-Hill. (non-academic)

Kow, Yong Ming and Timothy Young. 2013. “Media technologies and learning in the StarCraft eSport

community.” CSCW ’13, San Antonio, Texas.

Kow, Yong Ming, Timothy Young, and Katie Salen Tekinbas. 2014. Crafting the metagame: Connected learning in

the StarCraft 2 community. Irvine, CA: Digital Media and Learning Research Hub.

Leonard, David. 2008. “To the white extreme in the mainstream: Manhood and white youth culture in a

virtual sports world.” In Youth Culture and Sport, ed. Michael D. Giardina and Michele K. Donnelly, 91–112.

New York: Routledge.



Lowood, Henry. 2007. “‘It’s not easy being green’: Real-time game performance in Warcraft.” In

Videogame/Player/Text, ed. Barry Atkins and Tanya Krzywinska, 83–100. Manchester: Palgrave.

Lowood, Henry. Forthcoming. “‘Beyond the game’: The Olympic ideal and competitive e-sports.” In Play and

Politics: Games, Civic Engagement, and Social Activism, ed. Douglas Thomas and Joshua Fouts.

McCrea, Christian. 2009. “Watching Starcraft, strategy and South Korea.” In Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-

Paci�c, ed. Larissa Hjorth and Dean Chan, 179–193. New York: Routledge.

Moeller, Ryan M., Bruce Esplin, and Steven Conway. 2009. “Cheesers, pullers, and glitchers: The rhetoric of

sportsmanship and the discourse of online sports gamers.” Game Studies, 9 (2).

Mora, Philippe and Stéphane Héas. 2005. “From videogamer to e-sportsman : Toward a growing

professionalism of world-class players?.” In Doom: Giocare in Prima Persona, Matteo Bittanti and Sue Morris,

Eds. Milano: Costa & Nolan. [Originally published in French in Consommations et Sociétés, special videogames

issue, coordinated by Mélanie Roustan. Translated to Italian for Doom book and English version available

online.]

Rambusch, Jana. 2011. Mind Games Extended: Understanding Gameplay as Situated Activity. PhD disseration,

Linköping Studies in Science and Technology.

Rambusch, Jana, Peter Jakobsson, and Daniel Pargman. 2007. “Exploring e-sports: A case study of gameplay in

Counter-Strike.” In Situated Play: Proceedings of the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) Conference 2007,

ed. Akira Baba. Tokyo: University of Tokyo.

Reeves, Stuart, Barry Brown, and Eric Laurier. 2009. “Experts at play: Understanding skilled expertise.” Games

and Culture 4 (3): 205–227.

Rothman, Jennifer. 2013. “E-sports as a prism for the role of evolving technology in intellectual property.”

University of Pennsylvania Law Review Online 116: 317-329.

Sell, Jesse. 2015. E-Sports Broadcasting. MsC thesis, MIT, Cambridge, MA.

Seo, Yuri. 2013. “Electronic sports: A new marketing landscape of the experience economy.” Journal of

Marketing Management, published online 21 August.

Sirlin, David. 2005. Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion. Lulu.com. (non-academic)

Stald, Gitte. 2001. “Meeting in the combat zone: Online multi-player computer games as spaces for social and

cultural encounters.” In Proceedings of Association of Internet Researchers Conference, ed. Leslie Shade.



Minneapolis, USA.

Swalwell, M. L. 2009. “LAN gaming groups: Snapshots from an Australasian case study, 1999–2008.” In Gaming

cultures and place in Asia-Paci�c, ed. L. Hjorth and D. Chan, 117–136. Oxon, UK: Routledge.

Szablewicz, Marcella. 2011. “From addicts to athletes: Participation in the discursive construction of digital

games in urban China.” In Selected Papers of Internet Research, IR 12.0 conference.

Taylor, Nicholas T. 2015. “Play to the camera: Video ethnography, spectatorship, and e-sports,” Convergence,

24 April.

Taylor, Nicholas T. 2012. “A silent team is a dead team”: Communicative norms in team-based Halo 3 play. In

G. Voorhees, (Ed.), Guns, grenades and grunts: First person shooter games. New York: Continuum.

Taylor, Nicholas T. 2011. “Play globally, act locally: The standardization of pro Halo 3 gaming.” International

Journal of Gender, Science and Technology, 3(1).

Taylor, Nicholas T. 2009. “Where the women are(n’t): Gender and a North American ‘pro-gaming’ scene.” In

Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory: Proceedings of the 2009 Digital Games

Research Association conference, eds. Barry Atkins, Helen Kennedy, and Tanya Krzywinska. London.

Taylor, Nicholas T. 2009. Power Play: Digital Gaming Goes Pro. PhD Dissertation, York University, Toronto.

Taylor, T.L. 2012. Raising the Stakes: The Professionalization of Computer Gaming. Cambridge, MA: The MIT

Press.

Taylor, T. L., and Emma Witkowski. 2010. “This is how we play it: What a mega-LAN can teach us about

games.” In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Game, ed. Yusuf Pisan.

Monterey, CA: ACM Press.

Wagner, Michael. 2006. “On the scienti�c relevance of eSport.” In Proceedings of the 2006 International

Conference on Internet Computing and Conference on Computer Game Development. Las Vegas, Nevada: CSREA

Press.

Wimmer, Je�rey. 2012. “Digital game culture(s) as prototype(s) of mediatization and commercialization of

society.” In Computer Games and New Media Cultures: A Handbook of Digital Game Studies, J. Fromme & Unger,

A. (Eds.), pp. 525-540, Berlin: Springer.

Witkowski, Emma. 2014. “Competition and Cooperation,” in B. Perron and M. J. Wolf, (eds.) The Routledge

Companion to Video Game Studies. New York: Routledge.



Witkowski, Emma. 2013. “Eventful masculinities: Negotiations of hegemonic sporting masculinities at LANs,”

in Mia Consalvo, Konstantin Mitgutsch, and Abe Stein (Eds.) Sports Videogames. New York: Routledge.

Witkowski, Emma. 2012. “On the Digital Playing Field: How We ‘Do Sport’ With Networked Computer Games.”

Games and Culture, 7:349-374.

Witkowski, Emma. 2012. Inside the Huddle: The Sociology and Phenomenology of Team Play in Networked

Computer Games. PhD dissertation, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Witkowski, Emma. 2009. “Probing the sportiness of eSports,” in J. Christophers and T. Scholz (eds.), eSports

yearbook 2009, Norderstedt, Germany: Books on Demand GmbH, pp. 53 – 56.

World Intellectual Property Organization. 2013. “The legal status of video games: Comparative analysis in

national approaches,” 29 July 2013.

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