Paying, Playing, and Spectating: Relationships Between Digital Game Play and Spectating Esports
Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media
Published online on September 11, 2025
Abstract
Games and Culture, Ahead of Print.
The association between playing digital games and watching esports has, to date, been an explicit assumption of many works, specifically that there is a strong and direct correlation between playing games and watching esports. The conflation of game play ...
The association between playing digital games and watching esports has, to date, been an explicit assumption of many works, specifically that there is a strong and direct correlation between playing games and watching esports. The conflation of game play ...