Modes of Esports Engagement in Overwatch / / edited by Maria Ruotsalainen, Maria Törhönen, Veli-Matti Karhulahti.
This Open Access book provides a comprehensive review of the rapidly developing esport phenomenon by examining one of its contemporary flagship titles, Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment 2016), through three central themes and from a rich variety of research methods and perspectives. As a game with m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2022. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVII, 229 p. 31 illus.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction; Maria Ruotsalainen, Maria Törhönen & Veli-Matti Karhulahti
- 2. Two Overwatch Player Profiles; Jukka Vahlo & Veli-Matti Karhulahti
- 3. One Tricks, Hero Picks, and Player Politics: Highlighting the Casual-Competitive Divide in the Overwatch Forums; Courtney Blamey
- 4. The Player’s Interpretative Agency and the Developer’s Disruptive Powers: How Blizzard Entertainment Enforces Authorial Intention in Overwatch; Joleen Blom
- 5. Player Reception of Change and Stability in Character Mechanics; Tanja Välisalo & Maria Ruotsalainen
- 6. “KKona Where’s Your Sense of Patriotism?” - Positioning Nationality in the Spectatorship of Competitive Overwatch Play; Marko Siitonen & Maria Ruotsalainen
- 7. A Region of Contenders: Overwatch in Brazil; Mayara Caetano
- 8. Gender and Toxic Meritocracy in Competitive Overwatch: Case “Ellie”; Usva Friman & Maria Ruotsalainen
- 9. Overwatch Fandom and the Range of Corporate Responses; Hanna Wirman & Rhys Jones
- 10. Overwatch to Oversnatch: The Mutually Reinforcing Gendered Power Relations of Pornography, Streaming, and Esports; Thomas Apperley
- 11. The Talk of the Town: Community Perspectives on Loot Boxes; Joseph Macey & Mila Bujić.