research-article Open AccessEsports and expertise: what competitive gaming can teach us about mastery Authors: Ben Boudaoud Nvidia NvidiaView Profile , Josef Spjut Joohwan Kim Arjun Madhusudan North Carolina State University UniversityView Benjamin Watson Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 29Issue 6November - December 2022 pp 54–59https://doi.org/10.1145/3567954Published:03 November 2022P...

There is growing concern among democracy scholars that participatory innovations pose a depoliticizing threat to democracy. This article tackles this by providing more nuanced understanding of how politicization and depoliticization take shape in initiatives. Based on ethnographic research projects with marginalized people who are invited act as experiential experts, the examines actors limit o...