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Amanda Cote talks casual games, gaming culture, esports and her book ‚Gaming Sexism‘ on the Esports Research Report
Amanda Cote (@accote) is Assistant Professor of Media Studies/Game Studies at the University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication....
Esports in Space: Developing Games with Esport Potential
The goals of the esports research network include working with industry to help develop a sustainable future for esports. We...
Will Partin discusses „Esports as a Cultural Industry“ on The Esports Research Report
William Partin is a Researcher at the Data & Society Research Institute and an Affiliate at the Center for Information,...
Esports and the Olympics? – 4 ERN members give their thoughts
The Olympics and esports is one of the eternal questions that comes up with each new announcement by the IOC...
Reconsidering the Value of the Esports Industry: New Research & New Thinking
The One Billion Dollar Myth: Methods for Sizing the Massively Undervalued Esports Revenue Landscape by Joseph Ahn, William Collis, Seth Jenny In our...
The parallels of golf and esports: History repeated?
An article by Nepomuk Nothelfer & Tobias M. Scholz. Esports is often compared to sports, and this has led to...
Esports and the “crisis” of masculinity in games
The global games industry is having a “#MeToo” moment – albeit not for the first time (Klepik, 2019). The last...
Foundation of the Esports Research Network Association
On July 7, 2020, the Esports Research Network (ERN) held their second formalization meeting and with 50 founding members present...
Psychological and Physiological Stress in Esports
Playing esports can be considered a motivated performance (e.g., Pedraza-Ramirez et al., 2020) that if played competitively should lead to...
Contextualizing the Esports stand of the DOSB (German Olympic Sports Association)
The Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (DOSB), which is the German federation for sport, says, that esports is no sport. From a...