Tag: Anna Brus

Esports is often portrayed as a rapidly expanding cultural field, yet its global development has been marked by an increasing concentration of commercial power. As publishers, media platforms, and tournament organisers consolidate control over competitive infrastructures, the space for non-professional forms of esports appears to narrow. This peer review article by Anna Brus and David Ekholm critically examines the institutionalisation of organised amateur esports within DGI, Denmark’s second largest sport association, through a qualitative case study using documents and interviews.