E-sports vs. Exams

IF 1 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Social Analysis Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.3167/sa.2022.660404

Yichen Rao

引用次数: 1

Abstract

Many Chinese students dislike hyper-competitive public school exams but find competing in e-sports games enjoyable. Some students are perceived to game ‘too much’ by their parents, who, anxious about gaming's impact on their grades, send their children to treatment camps for ‘Internet addiction’. This article documents parents’ and student-gamers’ experiences of competition in China's formal education system, online gaming, and professional e-sports. As student-gamers move between these competitive arenas, they develop counter-hegemonic understandings of what competition does and reconfigure their sense of self. Their movements reveal that, far from a symptom of neoliberal ideology, the prevalence of competition in China marks dialectical interactions between various ideologies and the lived experience of competitive practices. This finding contradicts simplistic conflations of competition and neoliberal economic models.

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电子竞技与考试

许多中国学生不喜欢竞争激烈的公立学校考试，但他们觉得参加电子竞技游戏很有趣。一些学生的父母认为他们玩游戏“太多”了，他们担心游戏会影响他们的成绩，把他们的孩子送到“网瘾”治疗营。本文记录了家长和学生在中国正规教育系统、在线游戏和专业电子竞技中的竞争经历。随着学生玩家在这些竞争领域之间移动，他们对竞争的作用形成了反霸权的理解，并重新配置了他们的自我意识。他们的运动表明，竞争在中国的盛行远非新自由主义意识形态的征兆，而是各种意识形态与竞争实践的生活经验之间辩证互动的标志。这一发现与把竞争与新自由主义经济模式简单化混为一谈的观点相矛盾。

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来源期刊

Social Analysis ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

2.20

自引率

7.10%

发文量

审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Analysis is an international peer-reviewed journal devoted to exploring the analytical potentials of anthropological research. It encourages contributions grounded in original empirical research that critically probe established paradigms of social and cultural analysis. The journal expresses the best that anthropology has to offer by exploring in original ways the relationship between ethnographic materials and theoretical insight. By forging creative and critical engagements with cultural, political, and social processes, it also opens new avenues of communication between anthropology and the humanities as well as other social sciences. The journal publishes four issues per year, including regular Special Issues on particular themes. The Editors welcome individual articles that focus on diverse topics and regions, reflect varied theoretical approaches and methods, and aim to appeal widely within anthropology and beyond. Proposals for Special Issues are selected by the Editorial Board through an annual competitive call.