Modes of esports engagement in overwatch. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Maria Ruotsalainen, Maria Törhönen, Veli-Matti Karhulahti.
• Editors: Ruotsalainen, Maria; Törhönen, Maria; Karhulahti, Veli-Matti
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 794.8; eSports (Contests); Video gamers
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030827670
• Related ISBNs: 9783030827663; 9783030827694
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Open access.
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.