Cybersport

Hemphill, Dennis

doi:10.1080/00948705.2005.9714682

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“…In this growing sector, high performance players take up a position as networked media sports experts and as meaning-makers with an international (spectatorship) and institutional (insider) reach. 10 Th ese players and teams are "exemplars of play" (Hemphill, 2005), embodying the impacts of socio-structural change, and their everyday actions have bearings on subsequent cohorts of players/producers. Sensuous proximity, as a researcher positioned within game research, is, as such, a signifi cant stance in this research space.…”

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“…Esports denotes the institutional practices surrounding organized pro/am digital game tournaments/leagues, and the various routines involved for esports players as expert producers (Hemphill, 2005;Hutchins, 2008;Witkowski, 2012). As a form of competition, many practitioners and institutions have moved closer toward or fully embraced esports as a sports media construct, with expert performances professionally packaged as a competitive sporting event and commodifi ed as a networked media entertainment spectacle.…”

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Sensuous proximity in research methods with expert teams, media sports, and esports practices

Witkowski

2018

MedieKultur

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Sensuous proximity in research methods with expert teams, media sports, and esports practices

Witkowski

2018

MedieKultur

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“…Hemphill (2005) argues that a case can be made to support the idea that many computer sport simulation games can be considered sports in their own right. Based upon the standard philosophical account of sport, all sports are games, but not all games are sport.…”

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Philosophical Issues in High-Tech Sport and Leisure

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Hemphill

2007

World Leisure Journal

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This paper examines several philosophical issues related to emerging technologies in sport and leisure. There are a range of technologies that will likely be offered to boost performance in sport, ranging from prosthetic devices and cyborg-like implants to gene therapy and enhancement. Computer generated simulations are already in use in work and leisure, and are expected to be pervasive in the future. Technological developments such as these present a challenge to some of the traditional assumptions and cherished beliefs not only about the nature of sport and leisure and how they should be conducted, but also about the very nature of reality and what it means to be human. It is hoped that this paper can shed some light on the challenges and possibilities focing sport and leisure in the upcoming high-tech future.

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“…Examples of eSports with official competitive leagues are FIFA Football, World of Warcraft, and League of Legends, which are played at the World Cyber Games". For Hemphill (2005), the proper name for eSports is "CyberSport," 7 although he disputes the categorization of computer games as sports. Only a qualitative leap could justify the change of name from "video games" to "eSports."…”

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eSport: Towards a Hermeneutic of Virtual Sport.

Pato¹,

Remilllard²

2018

CCD

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Our goal in this paper is to provide a hermeneutical reflection on the possibility of regarding active video games as actual sports (eSports). We will start our analysis with an epistemological analysis on virtual reality. To do so, we will draw the boundaries between virtual and real, providing a concept, or operational definition, of virtual reality. Then, we will build upon this definition to understand what is real within the virtual, as well as the semantic field that virtual reality, using Heideggerian terms, "discloses." This disclosure will be understood as the culmination of philosophy in Western history, where the current dominance of art and the consummation of metaphysics overlap, resulting in what Heidegger calls "the oblivion of Being." To analyze it, we will draw on Aristotle's pair of concepts "dýnamis" and "enérgeia." The latter refers to "being" or "presence," and the former to "essence." In line with this, we will draw on Pierre Lévy's conceptualization of the virtual to describe the process that has led humans to transform their naturally inherited playful instinct into play, and play into sport. To conclude, we will argue that eSports are the ultimate goal of a utopian humanization process developed through play.Key words: eSports, virtual, real, hermeneutics. ResumenNuestro objetivo en este artículo es ofrecer una reflexión hermenéutica sobre la posibilidad de considerar a los videojuegos (eSports) como deportes auténticos. Comenzaremos nuestro análisis con un análisis epistemológico de la realidad virtual. Para ello, trazaremos los límites entre lo virtual y lo real, proporcionando un concepto, o definición operativa, de la realidad virtual. Seguidamente, avanzaremos sobre esta definición para comprender qué es real dentro de lo virtual, así como el campo semántico que la realidad virtual -usando términos hedeggerianos-, "revela". Esta revelación será entendida como la culminación de la filosofía en la Historia Occidental, donde el actual dominio del arte y la consumación de la metafísica se superponen, dando como resultado lo que Heidegger llamó "el olvido del Ser". Para este análisis, recurrimeros al binomio de conceptos artistotélicos de "dynamis" y "enérgia". Éste último se refiere al "ser" o "presencia", y el primero a la "esencia". En relación a esto, recurriremos a la conceptualización de Pierre Levy acerca de lo virtual para describir el proceso que ha guiado a los humanos a transformar su instinto lúdico en juego, y el juego en deporte. Para concluir, argumentaremos que los eSports son el objetivo final del proceso de humanización utópico desarrollado a través del juego.

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Cybersport

Cited by 82 publications

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Sensuous proximity in research methods with expert teams, media sports, and esports practices

Sensuous proximity in research methods with expert teams, media sports, and esports practices

Philosophical Issues in High-Tech Sport and Leisure

eSport: Towards a Hermeneutic of Virtual Sport.

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