Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming

by T.L. Taylor

Book Overview

How a form of play becomes a sport: players, agents, referees, leagues, tournaments, sponsorships, and spectators, and the culture of professional computer game play.Competitive video and computer... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262017377
• ISBN13: 9780262017374
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher