Fighting games and Go: Exploring the aesthetics of play in professional gaming

This paper examines the varied cultural meanings of computer game play in competitive and professional computer gaming and live-streaming. To do so it riffs off Andrew Feenberg’s 1994 work exploring the changing meanings of the ancient board game of Go in mid-century Japan. We argue that whereas Go...

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Main Authors: Johnson, MR, Woodcock, J
Format: Journal article
Published: SAGE Publications 2017