Esports Insights

Esports Insights provides an introduction to the rapidly growing esports industry,outlining its fundamental characteristics,features,and structures. It features international case studies and discusses the key components,stakeholders,and regulatory and governance structures. It also explores the social benefits of esports and considers future developments and changes.

Format: Hardback
Length: 108 pages
Publication date: 28 February 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Esports Insights provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the rapidly growing esports industry, outlining its fundamental characteristics, features, and structures. Written for readers without prior knowledge of esports, the book features international case studies in each chapter to showcase the contemporary nature of the sector. It offers a concise and easy-to-understand introduction to key components, stakeholders, and features of this commercially driven sector, which is characterized by its dynamic and complex nature.

The book explores current regulatory and governance structures within esports, unpacking the industry's essential features by outlining the various genres, formats, and stakeholders involved. It adopts a critical but balanced analysis, discussing the social benefits of esports, including their potential as tools for social inclusion and sport development. It also acknowledges the potential impacts and risks associated with esports participation and spectatorship, related to health and wellbeing.

Esports Insights also considers future developments and changes within esports, as the sector evolves and continues to professionalize. The book is of interest to students, researchers, practitioners, and anyone with an interest in sport business, sport and society, event studies, esports, or video gaming, as well as the wider media industry.

Weight: 254g
Dimension: 142 x 222 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032044279