{"263961":{"#nid":"263961","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Brown Bag Seminar: Nick Taylor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENick Taylor\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow You\u2019re Playing With Audience Power: The Work of Watching Games\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe emergence of high-definition, accessible live-streaming services has led to a surge in online spectatorship for competitive (and other forms of) digital play. Major League Gaming (MLG), long regarded as a console-driven e-sports organization, now boasts a \u2018mass\u2019, globalized audience for its live-streaming broadcasts of competitive play in Starcraft 2 and League of Legends. This talk compares two MLG tournaments (one in 2008 and one in 2012) from the perspective of spectators and the kinds of activities they undertook at these events. The different forms of audience labor at these events indicate at least a partial re-entrenchment of conventional divisions between media producers and spectators \u2013 even as platforms such as Twitch.tv point to emergent forms of participatory spectatorship. In drawing out this tension, this talk invites consideration of the following questions: what is the \u2018work\u2019 of spectators in (and for) the e-sports industry? What socio-economic and socio-technical forms is this work taking across different contexts? What are the implications for the ongoing transformation of gaming into spectator sport?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Nicholas Taylor (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/nickttaylor.net\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/nickttaylor.net\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/nickttaylor.net\/\u003C\/a\u003E) is Assistant Professor of Digital Media in the Department of Communication at North Carolina State University. His work applies critical, feminist and socio-technical perspectives to experimental and mixed-methods research with digital gaming communities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERecently, this includes an educationally-focused ethnography of League of Legends players, micro-ethnographic analyses of play in Telltale\u2019s The Walking Dead, and design-based research of a game design curriculum for non-programmers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe also co-directs the CIRCUIT Studio (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/circuit.chass.ncsu.edu\/\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/circuit.chass.ncsu.edu\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/circuit.chass.ncsu.edu\/\u003C\/a\u003E), a collaborative makerspace and digital media research lab at NC State.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27774","created_gmt":"2014-01-06 14:37:12","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:23:38","author":"Alishia Farr","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2014-04-17T12:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2014-04-17T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2014-04-17T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2014-04-17 16:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2014-04-17 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2014-04-17 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"hg_media":{"272971":{"id":"272971","type":"image","title":"Nick Taylor","body":null,"created":"1449244095","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:48:15","changed":"1475894961","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:49:21","alt":"Nick Taylor","file":{"fid":"198682","name":"untitled.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/untitled_3.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/untitled_3.png","mime":"image\/png","size":84667,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/untitled_3.png?itok=XLd8OoP5"}}},"media_ids":["272971"],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"4096","name":"brown bag"},{"id":"1946","name":"GVU"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}