On November 27th at our Esports Research Network Symposium on ‘Developing a Sustainable Future for Esports’, we also filmed some of the presentations and will upload them in the coming weeks. The first video was from Dr. Tobias Scholz and tackled the question about sustainability in esports and the goal was to categorize and systemize the fragmented industry into one […]
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Summary of the 1st Esports Research Network Symposium in Jönköping
The phenomenon of esports escaped its niche in recent years and became an integral part of the digitized society. Esports titles like League of Legends fill arenas and events like the DreamHack evolved into festivals that attract so many people that a small city like Jönköping became a beacon for esports all over the world. Still, the topic of esports […]
The 1st ERN Symposium: Developing a Sustainable Future for Esports in the City of DreamHack
On November 27th and 28th 2019, the Esports Research Network with the Media, Management & Transformation Centre from Jönköping University will be hosting our first official symposium. The purpose of the symposium is to bring the worlds of research and industry together to develop an agenda towards working towards a sustainable future for Esports. 60 participants from Sweden and abroad […]
Kick-Off Event at the ESL One Cologne
The phenomenon of esports grew in recent years exponentially and, even though, esports is around for several decades, research is still scarce and scattered. For understanding the implications of esports on the modern and digitised world, it seems necessary that researchers have to collaborate to achieve fundamental research on esports. Especially as esports cannot be categorised in one specific scientific […]
