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Content. Fantastic academic but accessible research book on Twitch and live streaming, Diverse research methods detailed history on rise of Twitch insights into how streamers live/work addresses problems around labor exploitation and content ownership.
If you've watched a few streams, having a bit of interest in digital culture, and are slightly confused about streaming, this book will help ground your understanding and give you a larger context.
If you're already deeply engaged with streaming or digital culture, then this could easily be a mentor text on how to conduct your own research in the field.
Exceptional book. Memorable. A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcasting
Every day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches than one hundred million viewers a month.
In these new platforms for interactive entertainment, big esports events featuring digital game competitors live stream globally, and audiences can interact with broadcastersand each otherthrough chat in real time.
What are the ramifications of this exploding online industry Taking readers inside home studios and backstage at large esports events, Watch Me Play investigates the rise of game live streaming and how it is poised to alter how we understand media and audiences.
Through extensive interviews and immersion in this gaming scene, T, L. Taylor delves into the inner workings of the live streaming platform Twitch, From branding to business practices, she shows the pleasures and work involved in this broadcasting activity, as well as the management and governance of game live streaming and its hosting communities.
At a time when gaming is being reinvented through social media, the potential of an ever growing audience is transforming user generated content and alternative distribution methods.
These changes will challenge the meaning of ownership and intellectual property and open the way to new forms of creativity,
The first book to explore the online phenomenon Twitch and live streaming games, Watch Me Play offers a vibrant look at the melding of private play and public entertainment.
I absolutely recommend Taylor's Watch Me Play, It's smart, insightful, and amazingly well researched, Live streaming is becoming an increasingly important part of gaming and online entertainment, and this is absolutely the go to book for folks who want to study or just learn about streaming.
I'm a professor and I've used this book with doctoral students who are researching live streaming, gender, and gaming,
It's been invaluable for their work!
If you've watched a few streams, having a bit of interest in digital culture, and are slightly confused about streaming, this book will help ground your understanding and give you a larger context.
If you're already deeply engaged with streaming or digital culture, then this could easily be a mentor text on how to conduct your own research in the field.
Exceptional book. Memorable. A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcasting
Every day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches than one hundred million viewers a month.
In these new platforms for interactive entertainment, big esports events featuring digital game competitors live stream globally, and audiences can interact with broadcastersand each otherthrough chat in real time.
What are the ramifications of this exploding online industry Taking readers inside home studios and backstage at large esports events, Watch Me Play investigates the rise of game live streaming and how it is poised to alter how we understand media and audiences.
Through extensive interviews and immersion in this gaming scene, T, L. Taylor delves into the inner workings of the live streaming platform Twitch, From branding to business practices, she shows the pleasures and work involved in this broadcasting activity, as well as the management and governance of game live streaming and its hosting communities.
At a time when gaming is being reinvented through social media, the potential of an ever growing audience is transforming user generated content and alternative distribution methods.
These changes will challenge the meaning of ownership and intellectual property and open the way to new forms of creativity,
The first book to explore the online phenomenon Twitch and live streaming games, Watch Me Play offers a vibrant look at the melding of private play and public entertainment.
I absolutely recommend Taylor's Watch Me Play, It's smart, insightful, and amazingly well researched, Live streaming is becoming an increasingly important part of gaming and online entertainment, and this is absolutely the go to book for folks who want to study or just learn about streaming.
I'm a professor and I've used this book with doctoral students who are researching live streaming, gender, and gaming,
It's been invaluable for their work!
T, L. Taylor is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT,
Dr. Taylor is a qualitative sociologist working in the fields of internet and game studies, Her work focuses on the interrelation between culture and technology in online leisure environments,
She also serves as Director of Research for AnyKey, an organization dedicated to supporting and developing fair and inclusive esports,
Full information about her work can be found at her website tltaylor, com
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