Real life in real time : live streaming culture
The cultural ramifications of online live streaming, including its effects on identity and power in digital spaces.Some consider live streaming—the broadcasting of video and/or audio footage live online—simply an internet fad or source of entertainment, yet it is at the center of the digital mediati...
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
The MIT Press
2023
MIT Press |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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| ISBN: | 0262545659, 9780262545655, 9780262374750, 0262374757, 0262374765, 9780262374767 |
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Table of Contents:
- Revolutionizing Cultural Production -- 17. Live Streaming as a Cultural Industry -- 18. Cultures of Precarity and "Grinding" for Audiences on Twitch.tv -- 19. Games Done Quick, Organizational Presence, and Speedrunning Identity -- 20. Seeing Like the Streamers: Reprogramming the Panopticon -- Contributors -- Index
- Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword: Broadcasting Our Lives, Broadcasting Ourselves -- Introduction: The Revolution Is Streaming Live: Cultural Perspectives on the Age of Live Streaming -- Streaming beyond Video Games -- 1. How Camming Made Streaming: Retelling the History of Live Streaming through Webcam Modeling -- 2. "Calling All the Cattle": Music Live Streams during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil -- 3. Mental Health Live: An Ethnographic Study of the Mental Health of Twitch Streamers during COVID -- 4. Live Streamed Surgeries, Medical Media's Racial and Gendered Logics, and Patient Agency within Misogynoir -- Tackling Toxicity in Real Time -- 5. "Breaking News: Streamers Don't Wanna Do the Horizontal Tango with You": Creative Responses to Toxicity -- 6. How We Learned to Stop SWATing and Love the (Zoom-)Bomb: A (De)predatory History of Disrupting the Live Stream -- 7. Precarity and Privilege: The White Politics of Board Game Streamers -- 8. Toxic Community Policing: Weaponizing Moderation Tools on Twitch -- Broadcasting Gender and Sexuality -- 9. The Friendly, Funny, and Bizarre Queer on Live: Queer Live Streaming in South Korea -- 10. Tip the Queens! Black Girl Magic and Streaming Queer Pleasures -- 11. BabyRage: Playing while Pregnant in Live Streaming -- 12. Shout-Outed: Pronoun Hazards in Live Streamed Esports Events (A Conversation with Sasha "Magi" Sullivan) -- Designing the Live Aesthetic -- 13. "We Play Dungeons & -- Dragons!" How Actual Play Live Streams Have (Re)shaped the D& -- D Gaming Community -- 14. A Year in The Arena: Academic Live Streaming and Competitive Play -- 15. "Thou Shall Never Use a Fire Stone on Eevee": Twitch Plays Pokémon and the Articulation of Game Brands as Cultural Texts -- 16. Emoting Culture on Twitch.tv: The Removal and Reinstatement of PogChamp