ESC 2018
UCI Esports Conference 2018
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About ESC 2018
The ESC is the first academic event of its kind to focus on esports research and practice. Building on the momentum of our smaller summit meeting last year, the ESC will feature academic research presentations and symposia, collegiate program professionals panel discussions and post-mortems, and a public festival featuring vendor booths, a private reception, and a live streamed collegiate esports match in the UCI esports arena. We invite submissions from scholars studying esports, collegiate esports practitioners and leadership, and creatives engaged in the esports fan space to this two-day conference and festival.
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Video games, Esports, Live streamingCall for Papers
In recent years, esports scholarship has expanded in its multidisciplinarity while the business of competitive gaming has ballooned in viewership, prize payouts, and cultural visibility. Players are reaching professional status in more games and geographical regions. Meanwhile, this expansion of esports has renewed interest into familiar topics: inclusion & identity, cooperative learning strategies, community formation, design studies, quantitative analyses of performance, historical contextualization of play, and beyond.
To develop and expand the body of multidisciplinary research on esports, UC Irvine is excited to host the first annual Esports Conference (ESC 2018)! Join us October 11-12, 2018 in sunny Southern California for scholarship, professional panels, and an esports-centered festival. We invite proposals on topics across fields related to esports, including but not limited to the following:
- Identity and inclusion in esports
- Esports history and the development of esports as a cultural practice
- Cultures of competitive play
- Learning practices among competitive players
- Participatory culture around esports
- Quantitative analyses, statistical studies, and data collection of competitive play
- Questions of capital and sponsorship in and around esports
- Cognitive studies in esports
Please submit a short (300-500 word) abstract as a proposal for a 15-minute paper presentation, panel discussion, poster, symposium, or other suggested format. The deadline for applications is June 1, 2018. Abstracts will be reviewed and invitations will be extended by the end of June. A curated subset of papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of a games-related journal.
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