Research On The Reconstruction Of Sports Culture In Virtual Sports Video Games

With the popularity of electronic products and the rise of the Internet,video games have developed rapidly and become a cultural phenomenon that cannot be ignored nowadays.Virtual sports video games,combining the two fields of gaming and sports,have a large following around the world.Based on the sports practice in reality,this kind of game constructs a virtual space closely related to but not the same as the sports practice environment,and gradually forms a virtual culture field in the virtual space.In the process of moving from the real culture field to the virtual one,sports culture is transformed and reconstructed through the filtering and refraction of the intermediaries in the virtual culture field.This research is conducted by literature review,case analysis,questionnaire and content analysis and the major research object is the soccer video game FIFA21.In this research,the author deeply experiences virtual sport video games like FIFA21,studies the text of the game and investigates players and players' communities through questionnaires and ethnographic methods.It is concluded that in virtual sport video games,the sports culture is permeated into the material,system and spirit of the virtual world and as the main constructors of the virtual culture field in the game,the producers and the players contribute to reconstructing the sports culture.By transforming the real sport culture into digital form,selectively presenting sport culture content and guiding players to have an immersive experience,virtual sport video games have realized the reconstruction of sports culture in games,and have created “virtual sport culture”,which is originated from the reality but with its own features.“Virtual sport culture” will also exert both positive and negative influence on the content of sports culture and players' participation in real sports.The research shows that the reconstruction of sports culture in virtual sports video games results from the combined efforts of humans and technology.With the improvement of technology,people call for new content and form of sports culture.Producers of video games take advantage of technology to construct a virtual world to meet players' needs.In other words,in order to meet people's needs,technology is introduced in sport culture and the sports culture develops and changes under the impact of technology and produces “virtual sport culture”.To understand “virtual sport culture”,it is necessary to pay attention to the relation between reality and the virtual world and avoiding the side effect of technology when using it.