‘Esports Studies’ Bibliography
For a number of years, Dr. TL Taylor maintained a bibliography on her website that gathered all of the then-marginal scholarly publications on esports. But just as public interest has risen in esports in the last decade, research about professional gaming is very much in vogue these days. So much, in fact, that it was no longer feasible for TL to keep her bibliography up-to-date (“Given the tremendous growth of scholarship now on this topic I am no longer able to update this list”, as she wrote in 2016).
In the course of writing my prospectus, I’ve had to find and read everything about esports I could find, a good majority of which has been published since 2016. Consequently, I’ve compiled a kind of “updated” version of TL’s bibliography here that I’ll try to keep current at least until I’m done with my doctorate. While the works represented below represent a wide span of perspectives and scholars are very far from agreement about what we’re studying, how, and for what reasons, there can be no doubt about the intellectual ferment taking place around esports. The bibliography below is deliberately permissive, and, as a result, the quality of the works represented varies. And while I won’t claim that the list is perfectly comprehensive it is, as far as I can tell, pretty close.
It’s worth saying a few things about what I’ve left out: lots of master’s theses, scholarship written in languages other than English, unpublished conference presentations, encyclopedia entries, and, of course, popular writing (N.B. that many esports writers are producing valuable work in general gaming interest publications like Kotaku, Polygon, Vice, and as well as esports-specific ones, like VPEsports and The Esports Observer; academics ignore these sources at their own peril). Master’s theses and conference papers are numerous, can be difficult to locate, and often represent thoughts-in-progress that are later published in more complete form, so I gravitated towards published and peer-reviewed work.
(That said, there’s still plenty of master’s theses and conference presentations in here and, if you think one I’ve missed is important, I’m happy to add it. This is meant to be a maximalist list, gathered without prejudice, and readers are free to judge the utility and quality of each entry for themselves.)
Inevitably, I’ve missed something. Lots of things, probably. So if you feel that something belongs in this bibliography that isn’t here, whether it’s your own work or someone else’s, feel free to let me know via Twitter (my DMs are open). I’ll add the citation and credit you. Finally, w/r/t typos, (plentiful) misformattings, bad links, etc. — all errors are my own. I’ll clean it up over time.
I’m hoping to keep this up to date at least until I’m done with my PhD (2021? 22?), at which point someone else can take over lol. In the meantime, this page will hopefully become a public resource for anyone, casual or pro, academic or not, who is interested in understanding any aspect of esports more deeply.
Happy reading!
(Last Updated February 10, 2019)
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5th Annual Sports Law Symposium (University of Pennsylvania) bibliography lists a number of legal articles on esports. 2016. (http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1048&context=symposia).
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I haven’t included these because I don’t speak Chinese, but if you are interested in Chinese esports research, this link is a good place to start.
And a long Twitch bibliography is here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TTwGPc3fzSoHYYPZLKDIfNvNtg0jfmxn-bOhK1XVlFU/edit?usp=sharing
