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Personal Brands Of Esports Athletes: An Exploration Of Evaluation Mechanisms

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  • Ilya Musabirov

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

  • Denis Bulygin

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

  • Ekaterina Marchenko

    (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

Abstract

Esports organisations and athletes, being participants of an attention-driven market, are constantly discussed, compared and evaluated by spectators in a cross-media-based process on such platforms as Twitch, Reddit and others. In this work, we discuss an approach to analyse valuation practices related to esports spectatorship based on the concepts of a brand as an organising device, using computational text analysis tools and reconstruction of personal networks

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  • Ilya Musabirov & Denis Bulygin & Ekaterina Marchenko, 2019. "Personal Brands Of Esports Athletes: An Exploration Of Evaluation Mechanisms," HSE Working papers WP BRP 90/SOC/2019, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hig:wpaper:90/soc/2019
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    Keywords

    valuation studies; exemplars; brands; esports; network analysis; text analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • M31 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Marketing

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