Plan C: My DA and Contextual Essay

For my autoethnographic digital artefact, I was originally planning to write about my autoethnographic experience with anime Idol dancing. Unfortunately, I feel like I have covered everything about the experience in my two previous blogs. I did end up going to see my friends dance at Oz-Comic Con but anything I said about the experience …

G A M I N G ~ W A V E + CWG: A Contextual Essay

PROJECT SUMMARY Going into this class I wanted to create something focused around one of my passions, video gaming. My original idea was to play the first bit of a game overlaying my thoughts and creating a centralised blog to display the videos and thoughts and small contextual essay underneath it. Around this time my …

Project Beta: G A M I N G ~ W A V E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHgtuWHGz5Q&t=7s   So, I practised Fail early, fail often for I think the first time doing a subject with a DA and it’s pretty great. I haven’t got much feedback yet as I just changed my idea recently but the feedback, I have received has been pretty positive. This content is easy for me to …

Girl Gaming Event: Video Diary

My project is mainly focused on an event focused on bringing more women into gaming. Featuring a weekly (subject to change) video diary as well as an event twitter. From previous research, I have found that female gamers often “are facing all kinds of different harassment, including sexual harassment and cyberbullying from fellow gamers.” And …

Single Player VS. Multiplayer Video Games

Why do gamers/or people who play video games favour multiplayer games but the video games that win awards have no multiplayer aspect to them at all? For my last blog, I posed three questions. Why do people sit and watch people play video games especially in a sports setting? In the future will it become …

Cosplay Society Documentary Pitch

https://vimeo.com/325825280 For my digital artefact, I plan to make a mini-documentary about my club the cosplay society. We have a couple of big events coming up over the next couple of months where I think I will be able to get a good showcase of my club for us to show at O-week, club’s days …

Another Esports Question

The two topics that stood out to me the most when looking at the outline were the robot and the future of work. These topics were both topics that I could possibly use to research one of the things I am most passionate about which is Esports. Esports is “a form of sports where the …

Ethnography of Esports

Introduction of Esports Understanding what Esports (electronic Sports) can be as simple as understanding “the organised, professional and spectated play of competitive digital games” (Gibbs, Carter, Cumming, Fordyce & Witkowski, 2018, p.3) Competitive gaming has come a long way from 24 students playing SPACEWAR in Stanford’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to win a one-year subscription to …

Why an Ethnography in Esports? And how?

I am so new to the world of eSports. Having worked closely with the Video Game Association for planning two Gamefests (a university club run 24hr LAN event that usually gains around 300 people to it each year) in the past two years I have been slowly diving into the business side of planning LAN …

BCM241 Digital Ethnography in Esports Part One

It feels like competitive gaming hasn’t really been around for very long or at least the term esports. Like many different fan environments, competitive gamers, have a language that sounds so bizarre from any other point of view. An example of a sentence could be “the FGC boys are planning the annual LAN where they …