Leisure Entertainment Research Articles

Exploring e-sports fans’ motivation for watching live streams based on self-determination theory

This study seeks to examine the multifaceted influences of diverse motivational factors on the live streaming engagement of e-sports fans based on self-determination theory. While previous research has focused on the offline participation in e-sports events, the shift towards live streaming engagement has created a new and underexplored area: the motivations for live streaming viewing among e-sports fans. Consequently, this research develops an e-sports Live Streaming Viewing Motivation Scale for evaluating both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations underlying e-sports fans’ live streaming engagement, and then utilises SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 26.0 to assess the reliability and validity of the scale. Subsequently, multiple linear regression analysis of 1052 questionnaires is employed to construct models and evaluate hypotheses. Findings indicate that : (1) Intrinsic motivation exhibits significant impact on the live viewing behaviour of e-sports fans. (2) However, the impact of extrinsic motivation is insignificant. (3) When both intrinsic and extrinsic motivations coexist, intrinsic motivation maintains a positive impact, whereas extrinsic motivation demonstrates a negative influence. (4) The motivational influence is multifaceted; notably, dimensions such as idol worship, leisure entertainment, and competitive stimulation positively affect live viewing motivation, while belonging identification, social engagement, and peripheral activities exert a negative impact. In conclusion, intrinsic motivation emerges as the primary driving force behind e-sports fans’ live streaming viewing behaviour. Extrinsic motivation fails to independently influence live streaming engagement and even dampens enthusiasm when combined with intrinsic motivation. Theoretically, this study contributes to the existing literature on Self-determination theory and motivations behind e-sports live streaming viewing behaviour. It not only refines the motivation scale, but also elucidates the impact of various motivations on viewing behaviour. Practically, it provides insights for optimising e-sports products and services.

Digital Compilation and Arrangement of the Religious Sports Heritage of the Yao Nationality In Hunan

On the basis of analyzing the status quo of yao nationality's sports heritage protection in Hunan, this paper discusses the significance of digital protection of religious sports heritage, and discusses the strategy of digital compilation and collation of Yao nationality's religious sports heritage. Resource survey and data collation are put forward. Intelligent platform and digital museum construction; Leisure entertainment and industrialization development; the four ways and measures of digital talent training provide theoretical reference and technical support for the protection and development of yao religious sports heritage in Hunan.

The Rise of E-Sports: The Transformation from Leisure Entertainment to a Global Sports Phenomenon

The Rise of E-Sports: The Transformation from Leisure Entertainment to a Global Sports Phenomenon

Study on the Realization of Freshwater Ecosystem Services from the Perspective of Consumer Willingness to Pay in China

The realization of freshwater ecosystem services value plays a vital role in the survival of human beings and the sustainable development of fisheries, and this process is inseparable from the support of consumers. This paper decomposes freshwater ecosystem services in multiple dimensions. From the perspective of consumers’ willingness to pay for ecosystem services, using the survey data of 821 consumers in China, the influence of various dimensions of freshwater ecosystem services on consumers’ willingness is explored by the structural equation model. The results show that: (1) consumers already have a certain awareness of freshwater ecosystem services, but the proportion of consumers willing to pay extra for them is not high; (2) the individual characteristics (age, gender, education, and income ) affect consumers’ willingness to pay for freshwater ecosystem services value, but the impact degree is not high; (3) regulating, cultural, and provisional servers functions of freshwater ecosystem services significantly affect consumers’ willingness to pay, especially freshwater ecosystem services’ role on regulating carbon emissions, controlling algal biomass, enhancing local fishery culture and improving leisure and leisure entertainment services. This study is helpful to deeply understand consumers’ willingness to pay for various dimensions of freshwater ecosystem services and provide more targeted and detailed guidance for realizing it.

A new paradigm for sport education programs: an equity-minded and anti-ism framework

ABSTRACT The purpose of this manuscript is to examine the implications of the current ideological underpinnings of sport education programs (SEPs) in the United States (U.S.) and present a new equity-minded and anti-ism sport education (EASE) framework that reflects a paradigm shift towards equity-mindedness, anti-ism, cultural responsiveness, inclusive excellence, and transformational leadership. The sport industry has transformed from modest recreational activities for leisure entertainment at the local levels into a multi-billion-dollar global corporatized industry with far-reaching economic, political and sociocultural impacts. Despite the growth in popularity of SEPs, a major area of concern is the lack of critical reflection on their sociopolitical and cultural origins of the curriculum and corresponding metrics of success. Thus, we argue current SEPs (e.g. sport management, sport administration, sport leadership, sport business, parks and recreation, and sport entertainment, hospitality, and tourism) perpetuate colorblind racism, sexism, and classism based on their philosophical foundations. In an effort to reflect a responsiveness to an increasingly global and multicultural sport industry, we present a new EASE framework for preparing professionals to ignite transformational change in and through sport in the twenty-first century.

Breakthrough and innovation of news broadcast hostsin short video platform

Under the impact of new media based on the Internet, traditional media have embarked on a transformation path with media integration. With the opening of the "Year of Jitterbug" in 2018, a short video has become one of the mainstream new media for users to obtain information and leisure entertainment, and with the continuous growth of platform users, it also attracts major mainstream media to station. From long video to short video, it is not only the refinement and transformation of news content but also puts forward higher requirements for the work of broadcast hosts. Whether it is emotional expression or language broadcast, or an in-depth understanding of news communication logic, it requires broadcast hosts to transform from traditional media thinking to integrated media communication. Therefore, the transformation of traditional media to new media is not only the transformation of creation and communication but also the transformation of the thinking of news broadcast host practitioners, which adds to the icing on the cake of short video news communication. This paper studies how news broadcast hosts develop and innovate in short video platforms from three perspectives: audience, news broadcast hosts, and short video platforms, and explores how to enhance the innovation of news broadcast hosts' work by combining the evolution of broadcast hosts' function in the transformation of TV news into short video news.

The Research on the Communication Strategy of Food Short Video in the Vision of Communication Psychology

With the development of new media application technology, the relationship between short video and communication psychology also has a certain influence on communication strategy. The existing short videos have problems such as poor continuity of work series and short life cycle of videos. To optimize the existing communication strategies of food short videos and put forward insights for the user psychology research of food short videos, this paper analyzes the user preference communication strategies from the perspective of food short videos and the perspective of communication psychology. This paper adopts the questionnaire survey method and the in-depth interview method. To the research results, the viewing motivation of food short video users is mainly leisure entertainment and relaxation, and the content preferences include funny light comedy and pastoral style, etc. Users attach attention to the clicks of videos and hold a high desire for interaction. The "explosive point" characteristics of food short videos are close to life and full of new ideas. The optimized communication strategy should grasp users’ preferences and improve the interaction frequency, to obtain a more significant communication effect.

The Museum as a Product Provider: the Impact of Its Emotional Intelligence on Customer Satisfaction

Growing competition in the field of culture, the need to compete in the leisure entertainment market forces museums to adapt to new conditions and rethink the structure of the institution, how exhibitions are created and presented, and other accompanying programs services. Meanwhile, museums still lack visitor satisfaction surveys, they are rarely conducted, and questionnaires help to understand the sociodemographic and social aspects of the audience but do not help the museum to find out what the visitor expected and whether the services met their expectations. Therefore, to stay creative and competitive in the marketplace, museums must consider the needs of their visitors, but at the same time keep in mind their emotional intelligence as a product and service provider. The organization’s emotional intelligence is a very important factor that can affect visitor satisfaction. The emotional intelligence of the museum employees has not yet been studied in museums with the aim of calculating whether it can correlate with visitor satisfaction with the museum. All research conducted so far has analyzed visitor satisfaction but did not consider museum staff as the most important link in the process.

“A Galaxy of Youth and Beauty”: Beauty Entertainment in Late Victorian Ontario

In late nineteenth-century Ontario, beauty contests and shows were forms of entertainment influenced in part by shifting cultural trends in entertainment and newspaper reports from outside of Canada. While commercialized beauty shows took place in theatres and filled a growing space for leisure entertainment, beauty contests were often held at community events, such as agricultural fairs and association picnics. As practices of inherently sexualized bodily display, they functioned as sites of acceptable public desirability. Late nineteenth-century beauty entertainment capitalized on the heightened visibility of women in public spaces and popular interest in public display in late Victorian Ontario, which, as read through the Ontario press, resulted in an expression of modernity where women’s cultural value was tied to their appearance.

Exploring Spatial Variations in the Relationships between Landscape Functions and Human Activities in Suburban Rural Communities: A Case Study in Jiangning District, China.

There is a complicated and contradictory relationship between landscape functions and human activities, especially in the suburban rural communities of metropolises. Previous studies focused on human interference to landscape function, ignoring the impact of landscape functions on human activities. Hence, the present study is focused on the impact of landscape function (based on ecosystem services) on human activities in suburban rural communities of China. The study evaluated the intensity of human activities based on big data; furthermore, the authors analyzed the spatial distribution characteristics through spatial autocorrelation, and probed into the spatial variations in the relationship between human activities and landscape functions using ordinary least squares (OLS) and geographically weighted regression (GWR) models. The result indicates that there are obvious spatial distribution differences in the intensity of human activities in suburban rural communities; that is, the intensity decreases from the inner to the outer suburban areas. Positive influencing factors of human activities are construction area, bus station, road network density, and leisure entertainment, among which, construction area is the principal driver; cultural heritage, hydrological regulation, and provision of aesthetics are negatively or positively correlated with human activities in various regions. The results offer insights for the sustainable development of rural environment in suburban areas and the big data-driven rural research.

Restaurant service: from satisfying utilitarian and pragmatic to cultural and leisure needs

The purpose of the article is to analyze the main requirements for the organization and management of various types of restaurant facilities, taking into account the need to ensure the cultural and leisure needs of the population. Research methodology. The basis of the research is the general scientific interdisciplinary methodology, which is based on the fundamental provisions of management, cultural studies, design, and other sciences. Common scientific methods are used: analysis, synthesis, generalization, classification, etc. The scientific novelty of the obtained results is that the main tendencies of the reorientation of catering establishments, in particular in Ukraine, in the original centers of culture, with their functions of leisure centers and entertainment, which is reflected in the National Standard, are also revealed. Conclusions. Despite the importance and numerous variations of the communication and entertainment and visual and artistic component of the interior space of restaurant enterprises, the main function of their catering is the priority of their internal arrangement. In the XX - the beginning of the XXI century, several basic types of functional types of institutions have been formed, with their inherent features of creation, zoning, and arrangement in accordance with the interests of clients of certain strata of the population, which imposes specific requirements for their organization, in particular, taking into account the leisure-time orientation.

Cognitive Cities: The Synthesis of Artificial Intelligence and The Urban Environment

Digital transformation and the advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are rapidly disrupting many facets of human life through emerging technologies, such as in computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), robotics and autonomous systems. COVID-19, while disrupting entire economies, has also propelled innovation in digital services for employment (remote working), health care (clinical networks), public transportation (self-driving cars), logistics (autonomous systems), and leisure (entertainment platforms) around the world, building upon technological megatrends of the last decades. However, despite this rapid progress, these technological advances have been randomly applied to the improvement of city living and of the human-digital user experience in urban spaces. To respond to this unprecedented advancement of technology and its future integration into the design and management of cities, the cognitive city promises to connect citizens to services more efficiently, increasing the cognition and “learning” of the city itself. Smart cities are fitted with sensors to collect information from citizens and infrastructure that improves efficiency and cost of resources. A cognitive city, however, is more resilient, efficient, and sustainable, able to sense, understand, and respond to challenges in its environment, and to learn and adapt its behaviours, operations, and services based on analysis and contextualization of past experiences.

Cruise tourism in the Red Sea

Cruising is a lifestyle that involves living for extended time on a boat while traveling from place to place for pleasure. Cruise lines have a dual character; they are partly in the transportation business, and partly in the leisure entertainment business, a duality that carries down into the ships themselves, which have both a crew headed by the ship's captain, and a hospitality staff headed by the equivalent of a hotel manager. The business is extremely volatile. Cruise lines frequently sell, renovate, rename their ships just to keep up with travel trends. That is why the aims of the study were to focus on the development of cruise tourism in the Red Sea, to characterize the major cruise lines in the Red Sea. There are 11 cruise lines that operate in the Red Sea. Cruise line rating scores were developed in this study. The Royal Caribbean International is a leader. The Oceania Cruises is an outsider. The primary reasons that consumers will be motivated to book a cruise: good value offered by the cruise lines; love of cruising; get away with friends or alone; family reunions, honeymoons/weddings/anniversaries; try out new sustainable ships; shorter cruises; and «work and play» opportunity.

The devil finds leisure

ABSTRACT In 1976, James Baldwin’s The Devil Finds Work is published, a scathingly telling piece of cinematic critique at the height of exploitation and the ongoing efforts of the Black Liberation Movement (BLM). Prior to that in 1963, Baldwin had published The Fire Next Time, a poignant letter to a nephew on the state of America in the midst of eventual civil unrest. What is presented is a fictionalized letter to a family member that takes the reader through a day-in-the-life of a racialised self within a society that does the work of racialising through forms of leisure entertainment, all in the midst of a pandemic and global civil unrest. Within that day, Baldwin’s work serves as the inspiration for this recollection and criticism, as very little has been discussed about fiction as entertainment for consumption and the implications of this consumption. Here, the devil finds leisure as much as work.

Mercury Distribution Characteristics and Its Mass Balance in a Multifunctional Urban Wetland

The distribution characteristics and the source-sink relationship of total mercury (THg) and methyl mercury (MeHg) were studied in a wastewater treatment area and in a lake deep purification area of a multifunctional urban wetland that integrates domestic sewage treatment plant effluent, water purification, and leisure entertainment in Chongqing. The results showed that the THg concentration ranged from 1.98 ng·L-1 to 38.03 ng·L-1[average concentration was (9.10±5.84) ng·L-1] and MeHg concentration ranged from 0.09 ng·L-1 to 0.84 ng·L-1[average concentration was (0.34±0.08) ng·L-1] in an outlet of wastewater treatment area. In the deep purification zone, the THg concentration ranged from 0.37 ng·L-1 to 85.69 ng·L-1[average concentration of (6.76±2.29) ng·L-1] and the MeHg concentration ranged from 0.04 ng·L-1 to 1.47 ng·L-1[average concentration of (0.35±0.17) ng·L-1]. The interference of human activities on mercury concentration is prominent. The vertical distribution of THg in the water is consistent with that of MeHg, the surface layer has lower values than the deep layer. Material balance suggested that THg in the wetland system decreases by 155.50 g per year, and MeHg decreases by 1.65 g per year, which has a protective effect on the downstream water.

A spatial design network analysis of street networks and the locations of leisure entertainment activities: A case study of Wuhan, China

This paper examines the spatially stratified association between various urban leisure entertainment activities and street configurations via a spatial design network analysis and attempts to provide insightful implications for the sustainable development of a city by using a typical inland city of China, Wuhan, as an example. The street network is characterized by performing a spatial network analysis of the closeness, betweenness, severance and efficiency parameters. The kernel density estimation (KDE) method is employed to measure the proximities of every place to various types of leisure entertainment facilities. The two sets of densities are then analyzed to determine whether spatially stratified correlations exist and whether various leisure entertainment facilities are more spatially correlated with specific street features. The results indicate that a good street network design can be measured not only by closeness or betweenness but also by severance and efficiency. Four street network metrics are spatially correlated with the locations of leisure entertainment activities. Various types of leisure entertainment activities have distinct locational preferences for street networks (e.g., chess and card rooms favor closeness). The conclusions of this paper can help urban planners and policy-makers spatially optimize street networks and leisure venues to develop a sustainable city.

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The study is an experimental design that explains if the day-of-film factors and type of room influence the perception of the quality of the cinemas. A scale was used to evaluate the perception of the quality elements of a service. The cinema is one of the most popular leisure entertainment alternatives in Colombia (DANE), the importance of the study is to contribute to the cinemas with information that allows them to make assertive decisions to implement strategies that respond to the key elements that Influence the expected satisfaction of the demand. With a level of significance of 5%, it was found that the dimensions of tangibility and responsiveness influence on the perception of the quality of the film service. The findings allow the management of the cinema rooms to conduct discretionary factors influencing perceived quality.

El cine primitivo como síntesis de espectáculos populares. El caso de las primeras exhibiciones cinematográficas en la ciudad de Málaga, España (1896-1903)

The first movie clip is presented as popular leisure entertainment seeking its own space among other theatrical presentations such as plays, dioramas or other nineteenth-century visual entertainment. However, before the narrative and mechanics of the film were affirmed, an analysis of the first movies enjoyed by spectators demonstrates the cultural aspects of the time and the labor of the cinematographer in creating flowing images from photographs as was habitually done with images extracted from the plays of the time, the vaudeville theater, and even the circus. This paper synthesizes the early days of cinema in Malaga and analyzes the social forces that impacted on and produced this new popular entertainment in Malagan society. The paper also reveals a social history of public discourse on films, which took their time to find a place in the public imagination, as they were initially confused with other visual spectacles.

Investigating the Development of the “Mobile Museum” from the Perspective of Service

During economic development, modern museums face competition from various leisure activities and entertainment sites, and to achieve sustainable development, museums should reflect on providing high-quality service to satisfy visitors’ expectations. Based on service design-related theories, this research team conducted a case study to explore the planning, implementation, and meaning of Mobile Museums. It investigated design development from the perspective of public service design and summarized the policy, design, and service satisfaction results for Mobile Museums. Finally, the similarities in service processes are discussed between Mobile Museums and the general service industry. According to this study, attracting more visitors is the biggest issue facing museums today, as are the ways in which museums must actively provide service and become recognized to compete with others. This study identifies the onstage and backstage support of museums as well as their cultural features and non-profit services.

Реализация культурно-образовательной деятельности в туризме

It has been established that tourism in our country largely became a type of commercial activity, opportunities to visit other countries have been opened, up-market tourism has been developed, and new forms of leisure entertainment have emerged. System analysis of domestic and foreign scientific literature has shown that the cultural and educational potential of tourism is realized not enough in Russia. Development of appropriate structural and functional model of the implementation of cultural and educational tourism potential is possible through the integration of a number of theoretical and applied experience in the neighboring areas, namely in the history and theory of cultural and entertainment activities and organization of tourism activity. The assumption about the feasibility of functional integration of the two certain systems (cultural and educational, and commercial) is made in the article. This assumption actualizes the problem of determining the specifics of this integration, argues its theoretical basis and identifies functional mechanisms of serviceology. Within the framework of pilot study verification of the structural-functional model of tourism development in three aspects was carried out. The first and second aspects, organizational-managerial, and functional, are connected with decision through the entertainment programs, advertising and PR activities, and cultural and educational events. The third aspect, organizational and educational, consists in integration of cognitive-educational, entertainment and recreational leisure functions.