You are invited to join a research interview about Gaming and Esports. In this interview, we are investigating how has esports and video games emergence as viable career from being a streamer, through professional play, sponsorships, etc., shifted the discourse surrounding video games between the gaming and non-gaming communities alike.
Description: Video games have changed throughout the past decades, and have developed from early standalone games into collaborative and competitive games played via massively multiplayer online environments, where millions of players can play simultaneously against the games’ non-player enemies or against other players. More recently, video game playing has become professionalized and for a small minority of players has become a career option in the world of competitive gaming. This new professional type of video gaming activity has been termed esports (electronic sports). Esport is a new area in the gaming culture, and is starting to become one of the most essential and popular part of video game communities. However, as Video Games have become an integral part of mainstream pop culture over the past decades, how has esports and video games emergence as viable career from being a streamer, through professional play, sponsorships, etc., shifted the discourse surrounding video games between the gaming and non-gaming communities alike?
We’ll be interviewing certain people from a phone that involve themselves in video games in the Western Washington Campus (Consent Form). Such as people who play video games in the Western Washington University Campus. “How did your parents felt when you play video games as a hobby?,” “How regularly do you play video games?,” “What made you play video games in the first place?”People that don’t involve themselves in video games in the Western Washington University Campus. “How would your parents feel if you play video games as a hobby?,” and “If you had the opportunity, would you consider playing video games as a hobby?"
You can stop participating at any time. If you stop you will not lose any benefits for participating
We will the keep information about you confidential, and to protect it from unauthorized disclosure, tampering, or damage
Participation in this interview is voluntary. You have the right not to participate at all or to leave the study at any time.
Call (360)540-7834 at Kenny Munroe or email: munroek@wwu.edu at Kenny Munroe if you have questions about the study, any problems, unexpected physical or psychological discomforts, any injuries, or think that something unusual or unexpected is happening.
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