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d78c491e346b4074998a5ca3d1a3ced9 |
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Creator |
ext-b8af07a380d7cdcc3aa4ada7e0ca1cb0 |
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Date |
2017 |
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repository |
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p1369118X |
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abstract |
This paper explores the lives and careers of video game live broadcasters, especially
those who gain their primary real-world income through this practice. We introduce
the dominant market leader – the platform Twitch.tv – and outline its immensely rapid
growth and the communities of millions of broadcasters, and tens of millions of viewers,
it now boasts. Drawing on original interview data with professional and aspiring-professional
game broadcasters (‘streamers’), we examine the pasts, presents, and anticipated futures
of streamers: how professional streamers began streaming, the everyday labour practices
of streaming, and their concerns and hopes about the future of their chosen career.
Through these examinations we explore the sociotechnical entanglements – digital intimacy,
celebrity, content creation, and video games – that exemplify this new media form.
Live streaming is an online practice expanding in both production and consumption
at immense speed, and Twitch and its streamers appear to be at the forefront of that
revolution. |
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authorList |
authors |
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issue |
3 |
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peerReviewed |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1043739 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1043740 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1045891 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1045893 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1045894 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1045895 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1045896 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1045897 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1046654 |
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volume |
22 |
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type |
AcademicArticle |
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type |
Article |
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label |
Johnson, Mark R. and Woodcock, Jamie (2017). ‘It’s like the gold rush’: the lives
and careers of professional video game streamers on Twitch.tv. Information, Communication
& Society, 22(3) pp. 336–351. |
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Title |
‘It’s like the gold rush’: the lives and careers of professional video game streamers
on Twitch.tv |
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oro |