The biopsychosocial factors that impact esports players' well-being: A systematic review

J Shulze, M Marquez, O Ruvalcaba - Journal of Global Sport …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this article is to review the known biopsychosocial risks of participation in
eSports. The authors used The Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta …

Women's experiences in eSports: Gendered differences in peer and spectator feedback during competitive video game play

O Ruvalcaba, J Shulze, A Kim… - Journal of Sport and …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite the growing popularity of eSports, the poor representation of women players points
to a need to understand the experiences of female players during competitive gaming …

[BOOK][B] Smartphone communication: Interactions in the app ecosystem

F Yus - 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions
and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated …

Gaming sexism: Gender and identity in the era of casual video games

AC Cote - Gaming Sexism, 2020 - degruyter.com
When the Nintendo Wii was released in 2006, it ushered forward a new era of casual
gaming in which video games appealed to not just the stereotypical hardcore male gamer …

The new practices and infrastructures of participation: How the popularity of Twitch. tv challenges old and new ideas about television viewing

HS Spilker, K Ask, M Hansen - Information, Communication & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A central theme in media research has been the transition from traditional
broadcast media, like television and radio, to social media and streaming services. For both …

Live streams on twitch help viewers cope with difficult periods in life

J De Wit, A Van der Kraan, J Theeuwes - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Live streaming platforms such as Twitch that facilitate participatory online communities have
become an integral part of game culture. Users of these platforms are predominantly …

“Obscene, pornographic, or otherwise objectionable”: Biased definitions of sexual content in video game live streaming

B Ruberg - New Media & Society, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
This article articulates and critiques the ways that Twitch, currently the most popular platform
for video game live streaming, defines sexual content through its community guidelines …

The playing experiences of esport participants: An analysis of treatment discrimination and hostility in esport environments

L Darvin, R Vooris, T Mahoney - Journal of Athlete …, 2020 - scholarworks.bgsu.edu
The eSport industry has seen rapid growth over the previous decade with additional
opportunities for participants to compete in competitive and casual environments. As such …

Unsupervised discovery of implicit gender bias

A Field, Y Tsvetkov - arxiv preprint arxiv:2004.08361, 2020 - arxiv.org
Despite their prevalence in society, social biases are difficult to identify, primarily because
human judgements in this domain can be unreliable. We take an unsupervised approach to …

Audience size, moderator activity, gender, and content diversity: Exploring user participation and financial commitment on Twitch. tv

GH Wolff, C Shen - New Media & Society, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
User participation has long been recognized as a cornerstone of thriving online
communities. Social live-streaming service (SLSS) communities are built on a subscription …