A COBERTURA JORNALÍSTICA DOS CAMPEONATOS DE E-SPORTS NO BRASIL

Abstract

This work addresses the journalistic coverage of e-sports championships in Brazil. Such approach is necessary because it is something new within sports journalism and that is still in the process of uprooting a concept already established in people's minds that games competitions are not profitable and can be considered just a pastime adolescent. The purpose of this study is to understand how a sport so popular among young people has such mediocre news coverage on news sites sports compared to traditional sports. This purpose will be achieved through the bibliographic review, the type of applied research is explanatory research. This type of search is more complex, because, in addition to registering, analyzing and interpreting the studied phenomena, it seeks identify its determining factors, that is, its causes (ANDRADE, 2017). The study clarified that the media itself over the years has been reinforcing the stereotypes placed within the games as a whole, not opening space for journalistic coverage as a sport, always as something aimed at entertainment or as curiosity and with that, discouraging teenagers from trying a sports career due to the fact that e-sports itself still be in the process of sportivization and as already mentioned the stereotype built and strengthened over the years makes this sport not to be taken seriously as a should within journalism.