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2019-12-01 |
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p15274764 |
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abstract |
This article explores affective and immaterial labor on the leading live-streaming
platform, Twitch.tv, which boasts over one hundred million regular viewers and two
million regular broadcasters. This labor involves digitally mediated outward countenance,
including being friendly to viewers, soliciting donations, building parasocial intimacy
with spectators, and engaging audiences through humor. We offer an examination of
streamers broadcasting as a “character,” which we situate within the context of play
becoming work, the labor of performance and acting, and the economic compulsions that
shape cultural labor on Twitch. We draw on hundred interviews with professional and
aspiring-professional game broadcasters conducted in 2016 and 2017 at gaming events
across the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and Poland, alongside ethnographic
research. This inquiry into the dynamics of digital games and labor underscores the
importance of studying live streaming as part of a wider critical investigation of
contemporary digital work. |
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authors |
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8 |
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peerReviewed |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1043751 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1043752 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1051902 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1051903 |
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uri |
http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1051904 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1051905 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1051906 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1051907 |
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http://data.open.ac.uk/oro/document/1052227 |
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20 |
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AcademicArticle |
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Article |
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label |
Woodcock, Jamie and Johnson, Mark R. (2019). The Affective Labor and Performance
of Live Streaming on Twitch.tv. Television & New Media, 20(8) pp. 813–823. |
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Title |
The Affective Labor and Performance of Live Streaming on Twitch.tv |
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oro |