In this brief essay, I want to share an idea I have had about how the concept of audience interaction helps to define sports entertainment as existing at the intersection of sports and entertainment. Audience interaction with content (what I have written about here as content interactivity) is the idea that the audience member (eitherContinue reading “Fourth Wall and Professional Wrestling”
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Situational and gender comparisons of digital game players’ preferences
This three-part post comes from a 2007 International Communication Association conference paper. The research was an attempt to understand if gender was as large of a factor in player’s experiences and preferences as specific situations of playing digital games. INTRODUCTION The digital game industry has become a powerful media and cultural force over theContinue reading “Situational and gender comparisons of digital game players’ preferences”
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