Online Crowdsourced Informal Education in /r/summonerschool

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2081

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Paper

Start Date

January 2015

End Date

January 2015

Abstract

eSports have gained tremendous popularity, with League of Legends counting over 70 million regular players logging over 1 billion game-hours monthly. As professional summoners have gained legal recognition as athletes, players at all levels have sought to improve their gameplay in the hopes of “going pro”. Venues like /r/summonerschool provide online crowdsourced informal education toward gameplay improvement, and we explore this venue expanding Murthy’s (2008) methods for digital ethnography.

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Online Crowdsourced Informal Education in /r/summonerschool

2081

eSports have gained tremendous popularity, with League of Legends counting over 70 million regular players logging over 1 billion game-hours monthly. As professional summoners have gained legal recognition as athletes, players at all levels have sought to improve their gameplay in the hopes of “going pro”. Venues like /r/summonerschool provide online crowdsourced informal education toward gameplay improvement, and we explore this venue expanding Murthy’s (2008) methods for digital ethnography.