Esports and reflexivity: ethnographic notes of an apprentice pro-player
This article revisits an ethnography of a community of semi-professional gamers for whom (auto)biography, participation, and the researcher's camera have become not only a research approach, but a useful resource for team promotion. The study explores the central role played by (auto)biography,...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) |
| Repositorio: | Revista Eco-Pós (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaecopos.eco.ufrj.br:article/27935 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaecopos.eco.ufrj.br/eco_pos/article/view/27935 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Game studies etnografia comunicação esports reflexividade pro-players ethnography communication reflexivity |
| Sumario: | This article revisits an ethnography of a community of semi-professional gamers for whom (auto)biography, participation, and the researcher's camera have become not only a research approach, but a useful resource for team promotion. The study explores the central role played by (auto)biography, participation, and affect in ethnographic research in digital games and esports. It concludes by considering some of the intersections between social markers and professional culture in video games – including the implications of these aspects for social scientific data collection – how ethnographic participation contributes to problematizing scenarios and fostering other encounters and questioning in an environment with its own access codes, idiosyncrasies, understandings, challenges, and possibilities. |
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