The culture of digital fighting games. Performance and practice

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Notes on contributor

Pascaline Lorentz, PhD in Sociology, is an independent researcher on video gaming who has published sociological papers in English and French on video gamers. The monograph of her doctoral work on the teenage audience of The Sims^® (Maxis, 2000–2014) titled The Socializing Voyage of the Video Game Player, along with a collective book Living in the Digital Age: Self-Presentation, Networking, Playing, and Participating in Politics are freely available for download (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pascaline_Lorentz).

Notes

1. Retrieved from August 21, 2015, http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/live-event-confirmed-for-all-work-all-play-july-esports-premiere-broadcast-live-from-los-angeles-to-cinemas-across-north-america-300108765.html

2. Not to mention the typo in Pierre Bourdieu last name on p. 70.

3. Retrieved from August 19, 2015, http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/19/5123724/league-of-legends-world-championship-32-million-viewers

4. Like the American giant sport channel ESPN already started in 2014 on ESPN3 and in May 2015 on ESPN2.