Blog Literacies #2

My major right now is Media and Cinema Studies and I am currently really interested in video and audio editing, but for my personal career goal, I really want to work in the world of esports. For my whole life, I have always loved sports, but I also have always loved video games, so esports is kind of the best of both worlds. Over the past couple of years, I have started to pay more attention to esports and I just love it, so I decided that I would like to find a career in esports eventually. The world of esports definitely has a discourse community, if not multiple, this is because of all of the different games that are apart of competitive gaming. As far as the media side of esports goes, I would say that my major is doing a good job of teaching me some of the common terms that are used in the media world, but as far as esports goes, I have not really learned any of the common terms that are used in esports from any classes, all of them have been learned from watching esports on my own time. I would say that my major is introducing me to a discourse in a way, but I would say that it is introducing me to multiple discourses rather than one because in the world of media, there are so many career paths that include media that there is not just one discourse to be introduced to. I think that for a career in media, it is more beneficial to become more included in multiple discourses as opposed to just one discourse. This is beneficial for many reasons, one of them being that it makes you look better to potential employers and another one being that it simply just makes you better at your job if you know more about multiple aspects of your field.