When I was finishing up my book on e-sports (Raising the Stakes, just released from MIT Press) I wrote that it felt a bit odd to be spending all this time talking about professional computer game play amidst the rise of the Wii and Facebook games. Though I’d started my fieldwork on professional e-sports in…
My new book, Raising the Stakes: E-sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming, is now out from MIT Press (& also available at Amazon). The book is based on my fieldwork over the years in the e-sports scene and explores the professionalization of high-end competitive play. I look at not just players, but the development…
I’m making a slight tweak to my website to allow me to do some periodic posts on research related tidbits of interest. Anything prior to this post is maintenance stuff I’ve used to generate the tagcloud for my writings. So, no need to “previous entry” beyond here, unless you enjoy boring admin-y stuff ;)
Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.
“Gaming Lifeworlds: Social Play in Persistent Environments” in S. Giddings and M. Lister (eds.) The New Media and Technocultures Reader, New York: Routledge, 2011.[edited selections from Play Between Worlds] Copy unavailable, check back for updates.