Humour and Games Season 3 Episode 11: Mateusz Felczak on “Emergence and Ephemerality of Humour During Live Coverage of Large-Scale eSports Events.”

On this episode we speak with Mateusz Felczak on his chapter “Emergence and Ephemerality of Humour During Live Coverage of Large-Scale eSports Events.” We talk about the difference between narrative game humour and live esports broadcasts, and how audience engagement changes the shape of humour.

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Humour and Games Season 3 Episode 12: Darshana Jayemanne and Cameron Kunzelman on “Cybernetic Irony: Racial Humour from Mecha-Hitler to Nuclear Gandhi.”

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Humour and Games Season 3, Episode 10: Agata Zarzycka on “Ridiculing the Player: Live-Action Visualisations of Game Experience in YouTube Parody Videos as an Ambivalent Strategy of Self-Fashioning.”