History of Esports and Esports Broadcasts -- Evolution of Game Culture in FPS Esports -- Transfixing, Transporting, and Toxic: Troubling Experiences for Gender and Racial Minorities in Esports Spaces -- Characterizing Professional Counter-Strike: Media's Impact on Gamer Stereotypes -- Love and Loyalty in the Fighting Game Community -- Unleashing the Stories of Invisible Gamers in Esports -- Black Men, STEM, and Erasing the Digital Divide -- The Need for Black Male Targeted Esport Initiatives -- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Youth Development Through Gaming and Esports: From Theory to Pilot -- Esports and the Coed Approach -- Surviving the Competition: Ghanaian Female Video Gamers in Male-Dominated Space.
Summary:
"This collection offers different perspectives through which readers can understand the history of diversity and inclusion in esports, the current issues facing the industry, and how these issues will impact the future of esports. Scholars of communication, media studies, game studies, and sociology will find this book of particular interest"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.