Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/15504
Authors: Borggrefe, Carmen
Hoffmann, Andreas
Title: Observations on sport and eSport from a systems theory perspective : theoretical reflections on differentiating sport and eSport and on the functions and consequences of an integration
Issue Date: 2024
metadata.ubs.publikation.typ: Zeitschriftenartikel
metadata.ubs.publikation.seiten: 1192-1210
metadata.ubs.publikation.source: International review for the sociology of sport 59 (2024), S. 1192-1210
URI: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:93-opus-ds-155046
http://elib.uni-stuttgart.de/handle/11682/15504
ISSN: 1461-7218
1012-6902
Abstract: This article takes up the sport policy and sports science debate on the recognition of competitive computer and video games - so-called eSport - as sport and pursues the goal of differentiating sport and eSport on the basis of systems theory considerations and reflecting on the functions and consequences of recognizing eSport as sport. It begins by addressing the questions of how sport can be observed at all with the help of theories and which epistemological position underlies the systems theory approach. This is followed by a consideration of sport in terms of systems theory as a social functional system and by reflection on forms of structural coupling between the sport system and other social functional systems. In light of these theoretical considerations, the connectivity of eSport to the sport system as well as the functions and consequences of such an integration for structural couplings between the sport system and the systems of health, education, the economy, mass media, and politics are analyzed. The article concludes with an outline of perspectives for future scientific observation of sport and eSport.
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