Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Game studies has long been concerned with the ways economic value circulates both within and around games (Giddings, 2018). In this paper, the relationship games share with global flows of economic capital is viewed critically through the significance of esports mega-events, particularly the League of Legends (Riot Games, 2009) 2024 World Championship Final that took place in London. By combining a game studies approach of mapping out new terrains of economic value connected with digital play to a geopolitical perspective common in sports studies (Chadwick et al, 2023), this paper posits the significance of esports to cities and nation states as symbolic of a new digital imaginary.
Authors: Josh Jarrett, David Murphy
Institution: University of Staffordshire
Language: English
Topic: Digital Games and Media
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4411974121