Mapping Digital Game Culture in China From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes 1st Edition by Marcella Szablewicz ISBN 303036111X 9783030361112

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ISBN 10: 303036111X

ISBN 13: 978-3030361112

Author:  Marcella Szablewicz 

Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes 1st Edition: 

In this book, Marcella Szablewicz traces what she calls the topography of digital game culture in urban China, drawing our attention to discourse and affect as they shape the popular imaginary surrounding digital games. Szablewicz argues that games are not mere sites of escape from Real Life, but rather locations around which dominant notions about failure, success, and socioeconomic mobility are actively processed and challenged. Covering a range of issues including nostalgia for Internet cafés as sites of youth sociality, the media-driven Internet addiction moral panic, the professionalization of e-sports, and the rise of the self-proclaimed loser (diaosi), Mapping Digital Game Culture in China uses games as a lens onto youth culture and the politics of everyday life in contemporary China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted between 2009 and 2015 and first-hand observations spanning over two decades, the book is also a social history of urban China’s shifting technological landscape.

Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to Esports Athletes 1st Edition Table of contents:

1. 1. Introduction: Mapping China’s Digital Gaming Culture
2. 2. Internet Cafés: Nostalgia, Sociality, and Stigma
3. 3. Spiritual Opium: The Internet Addiction Panic and the Spiritually Ailing Nation
4. 4. Patriotic Leisure: Internet Games, Esports, and the Discourse of Productivity
5. 5. Carving Out a Spiritual Homeland
6. 6. “Losers” “Acting Gay”: Internet Slang, Memes, and Affective Intensities
7. 7. Conclusion: Mainstreaming and Marginalizing Digital Games

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