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Cybersport Community: Social Structures Transformation as a Basis for Intercultural Dialogue

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The existence of the cybersport community as a special Information society social structure whose members are united by common interests and have their own communication infrastructure is reviewed in the article. ESport Mass Media features as an element of eSport media scene constituting cybersport community are represented. The potential of e-sports as a platform for creating a tolerant attitude to representatives of other countries and cultures, intercultural and interethnic dialogue is demonstrated. Social dialect development as a marker of recognition in the society of gamers also analysed.

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Boguslavskaya, V., Budnik, E., Azizulova, A., Sharakhina, L.V. (2018). Cybersport Community: Social Structures Transformation as a Basis for Intercultural Dialogue. In: Bodrunova, S. (eds) Internet Science. INSCI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11193. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01437-7_23

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