Laurel Rogers & Dan Lark

M.A. StudentUniversity of Southern California

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Twitch Plays Diversity: Building Community on Streaming Platforms

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Laurel Rogers & Dan Lark University of Southern California

January 07, 2018
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Twitch Plays Diversity: Building Community on Streaming Platforms video game spectatorship twitch Streaming community Curator's Note Twitch is a streaming platform known primarily for streaming video games. As a platform, it allows for and encourages ...

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Re: Twitch Plays Diversity: Building Community on Streaming Platforms

You are definitely right

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Laurel Rogers & Dan Lark University of Southern California

Tuesday, January 16, 2018 — 12:05 am
You are definitely right about the need to investigate the relationships between these behaviors and Twitch's literal architecture. I think you also bring up an interesting point about the vagueness of bans and, more broadly, the vagueness of communi ...
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Re: Despite Host’s Infamous Toxicity, Independently-organized Tyler1 Championship Series Rivals Official League of Legends eSports Viewership

This is a great post that

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Laurel Rogers & Dan Lark University of Southern California

Tuesday, January 9, 2018 — 10:24 pm
This is a great post that touches upon some important issues in esports and game studies. You're also asking similar questions that Laurel Rogers and myself ask in our IMR post. I have to wonder: Are streamers like Tyler1 successful not in spite of t ...