E-sports are Not Sports

Parry, Jim

doi:10.1080/17511321.2018.1489419

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“…To date, most research pertains to the fields of informatics, media, business, and sociology [5]. Many studies focus, among other things, on whether eSports can be considered a sport [6][7][8], on the economic scope of gaming and eSports [9,10] as well as on the psychological effects of gaming on brain function [11][12][13] and character traits [14][15][16].…”

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Demographics and Health Behavior of Video Game and eSports Players in Germany: The eSports Study 2019

Rudolf

Bickmann

Froböse

et al. 2020

IJERPH

105

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The number of video game and eSports players is steadily rising. Since little is known about their health behavior to date, the present study examines the demographics and health behavior of video game and eSports players. In this cross-sectional study, data on demographics, health status, physical activity, nutrition, sleep, and video game usage were assessed via a web-based survey of n = 1066 players (91.9% male; 22.9 ± 5.9 years; body mass index (BMI): 24.6 ± 4.8 kg/m²) in Germany in 2018. The majority of respondents (95%) reported a good to excellent health status. Two thirds (66.9%) engaged in moderate to vigorous physical activity for more than 2.5 h/week. The average duration of sitting and sleep time was 7.7 ± 3.6 h/day and 7.1 ± 1.3 h/day, respectively. Mean fruit and vegetable consumption was 2.7 ± 1.8 portions/day. Video games were played for 24.4 ± 15.9 h/week on average. Partial Spearman correlations revealed poor positive associations of video game play time to sedentary behavior (rho = 0.15; p < 0.01) and BMI (rho = 0.11; p < 0.01), as well as a poor negative association to self-reported health status (rho = −0.14; p < 0.01). These results indicate the good subjective health of this target group. Nevertheless, the high amount of video game play time and its poor negative association to health status indicate a need for specific health promotion strategies for this target group.

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Demographics and Health Behavior of Video Game and eSports Players in Germany: The eSports Study 2019

Rudolf

Bickmann

Froböse

et al. 2020

IJERPH

105

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“…The performance of a pilot therefore does not reside so much in a 'physical' performance as it does in a skill for interacting with the tool, a capacity to 'guide' a technology. The use of this term neutralises, in a certain way, the central position of the 'natural' body of the person as a source for the performance, and questions the athlete's physical commitment, much like in eSports (Parry 2019;Hilvoorde and Pot 2016). At least, it shifts the performance from its 'organic' substance in order to locate it within its interaction with an advanced assistive technology.…”

Section: The Issue Of Sporting Fairness and Regulating The Robotised mentioning

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Fairness, Regulation of Technology and Enhanced Human: A Comparative Analysis of the Pistorius Case and the Cybathlon

Richard

Issanchou

Férez

2020

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

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“…Remember that I, like Stear, treat 'sport' and 'competitive game' interchangeably. For a case against esports as (proper) sport, see Parry (2018). 13.…”

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Don’t stop make-believing

Wildman

2019

Journal of the Philosophy of Sport

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How is it that we can rationally assert that sport outcomes do not really matter, while also seeming to care about them to an absurd degree? This is the so-called puzzle of sport. The broadly Waltonian solution to the puzzle has it that we makebelieve the outcomes matter. Recently, Stear has critiqued this Waltonian solution, raising a series of five objections. He has also leveraged these objections to motive his own contextualist solution to the puzzle. The aim of this paper is to defend the Waltonian solution. The general upshot is that, contra Stear, a makebelieve based solution to the puzzle is viable after all.

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E-sports are Not Sports

Cited by 144 publications

References 18 publications

Demographics and Health Behavior of Video Game and eSports Players in Germany: The eSports Study 2019

Demographics and Health Behavior of Video Game and eSports Players in Germany: The eSports Study 2019

Fairness, Regulation of Technology and Enhanced Human: A Comparative Analysis of the Pistorius Case and the Cybathlon

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