Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso de Graduação
Fundamentos do jornalismo na cobertura de E-Sports: análise de conteúdo das transmissões de League of Legends no Youtube
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2016-12-16Registro en:
DESORDI, J. P. Fundamentos do jornalismo na cobertura de E-Sports: análise de conteúdo das transmissões de League of Legends no Youtube. 2016. 90 p. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Jornalismo) - Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, 2016.
Autor
Desordi, Júlio Porto
Institución
Resumen
This paperwork kicks off from the understanding of eletronic sports as a important niche for journalism. Widely linked to the cultural changes of the 21st century, the phenomenom of eletronic sports have it's foundation in the information based society and its developmental framework. In this sense, the communication strategies of promoters and gamers are relevant tools for organizing, maintaining and expanding the gamer culture as a professional sport. We seek to outline the theorical limits of the understanding of games as a sport, and to present the liveliness of this sports modality from the example of League of Legends (LoL), one of the biggest eletronic
games on the real time strategy type. That brings together players and fans of the whole world in online and lan-based competitions - such as the Worlds
Championship. Our goal is to understand the characteristics of the broadcasts of LoL matches on YouTube, seeking references that allow them to relate to sports journalism language. The Content Analysis proved to be a qualified methodological tool to carry out this project, helping us, from the journalistic theories about sports coverage, to elaborate categories of analysis that allowed us to explain some of the communication phenomenom of LoL. We watched the broadcast of the 2016 Worlds
Finals of LoL, as well as six other videos present on its YouTube channels,
considering two central axes: the coverage teams and journalistic formats associated with the coverage. We can see, among our main results, that LoL coverage appropriates and reproduces traditional journalistic concepts.