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 mediation of our lives. In this edited volume, Johanna Brewer, Bo Ruberg, Amanda L. L. Cullen, and Christopher J. Persaud present a broad range of essays that explore the cultural implications of live streaming, paying special attention to how it is shifting notions of identity and power in digital spaces. The diverse set of international authors included represent a variety of perspectives, from digital media studies to queer studies, from human-computer interaction to anthropology, and more.
While important foundational work has been carried out by game studies scholars, many other elements of streaming practices remain to be explored. To deepen engagement with diversity and social justice, the editors have included a variety of voices on such topics as access, gender, sexuality, race, disability, harassment, activism, and the cultural implications of design aesthetics. Live streaming affects a wide array of behaviors, norms, and patterns of communication. But above all, it lets participants observe and engage with real life as it unfolds in real time. Ultimately, these essays challenge us to look at both the possibilities for harm and the potential for radical change that live streaming presents.
Conditions of Use
This book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-SA). You can download the ebook Real Life in Real Time for free.
- Title
- Real Life in Real Time
- Subtitle
- Live Streaming Culture
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Author(s)
- Bo Ruberg, Johanna Brewer
- Published
- 2023-08-22
- Edition
- 1
- Format
- eBook (pdf, epub, mobi)
- Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0262545659
- ISBN-13
- 9780262374750
- License
- CC BY-NC-SA
- Book Homepage
- Free eBook, Errata, Code, Solutions, etc.
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 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 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) 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 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
