互动仪式链视角下电竞用户文化研究--以英雄联盟粉丝为例

E-Sports User Culture from the Perspective of Interactive Ritual Chain:Taking Fans of the League of Legends as an Example

电子竞技正在逐渐成为当下年轻人文化娱乐生活的一部分。2021年,中国将成为拥有核心电竞爱好者最多的国家,而原生的电竞圈粉丝也面临着诸如“饭圈”等新圈层粉丝的冲击。在互动仪式链的理论框架下,对英雄联盟粉丝的研究发现,电竞用户通过线下和线上多种情境聚集,成为共同在场者和参与者,以游戏知识的掌握作为“竞圈”与其他圈层的界限,以职业选手作为最核心的关注焦点,虽然频繁与“饭圈”粉丝爆发激烈的冲突,但两者逐渐处于交融之中。在一系列互动仪式的行进过程中,电竞用户彼此间产生了共享的情感体验,最终形成了诸如群体符号和道德感等重要的仪式效果,强化了身份认同,构建了一个想象的共同体。

Electronic Sports have become a part of the cultural and recreational life of young people today.In 2021,China will become the country with the most core e-sports fans.Fans of the original e-sports circle are also facing the impact of new fans such as the“Fan Quan”group.Under the theoretical framework of Interactive Ritual Chain,the research on fans of League of Legends finds that e-sports users gather together through a variety of offline and online situations to become present and involved commonly,taking the mastery of game knowledge as the boundary between“e-sports circle”and other circles,and regarding professional players as the core focus.Although they frequently break out fierce conflicts with the“Fan Quan”group,the two are also in the blend.In the process of a series of interactive rituals,e-sports users have shared emotional experience with each other,and eventually formed important ritual effects such as group symbols and moral sense,strengthening identity and constructing an“imaginary community”.