Intro to Esports: collecting data on how the entertainment world is transforming directly because of millennial intervention
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- What is esports and why is it growing so fast?
- Competitive gaming,
- ESL = largest esports league
- Sophisticated gaming experiences à community experience
- Growth of social media platforms (Facebook, Twitter) à passion point
- Increase in streaming technologies (twitch, Youtube à spectator sport
- What is esports and why is it growing so fast?
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Why is viewership down across sports leagues? (Sports Book Journal)
- Millennials can control what they want and when they want it
- Short attention span
- More entertainment choices (eSports)
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- “Last year, ESL content generated over 2 billion impressions and reached over 200 million users on Facebook globally. Now, with the addition of live streaming for all major ESL events, as well as exclusive content around CS:GO and ESEA, we are excited to expand our reach to more audiences and build strong local communities of highly engaged eSports fans.” – Johanes Schiefer (VP of social media, esl)
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These sources give us a better understanding of what eSports represents. Simply, eSports is competitive gaming with 134 million total viewers worldwide creating sophisticated social media platforms. In addition, the growth of social media platforms, specifically Facebook and Twitter generate a passion point through the gaming industry. Lastly, the increase in streaming technologies such as Twitch and Youtube are extremely influential in producing a spectator sport for fans and other viewers.
Liam,
These are some great facts that help you understand why eSports makes for important sociological search. How do these facts influence the direction you want to take with this project? You are asking a lot of big questions right now in your project description and the discussion of your methods. However, I also want to make sure that your project is moving in a direction that will yield a successful paper at the end. In your next blog, I would like for you to make a little more sense of how these data will impact your future steps.
I look forward to learning more about this project.