E-Sports, heirs to a tradition
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Games. E-Sports. Sport. Competition. Game Studies.Abstract
This article undertakes a historical discussion about the phenomenon of organized competitive digital game, popularly known as e-Sport. Its purpose is to provide a theoretical framework that addresses the hybrid aspect of e-Sports, considering that it converges the fields of Communication, Game Studies, Sociology and Philosophy of Sport. The article, which addresses e-Sport as the legitimate heir of a sport tradition, investigates two specific aspects of practice: (1) a genealogy which, in our belief, connects them to a millennial tradition; and (2) an ontology that underlines its necessarily mediatic experiential condition.
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