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    Performing Both Sides of the Glass: Videogame Affordances and Live Streaming on Twitch

    Howells LM 2023 Public.pdf (1.298Mb)
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    Open access
    Authors
    Howells, Lachlan Mark
    Date
    2023
    Supervisor
    Tama Leaver
    Eleanor Sandry
    Type
    Thesis
    Award
    PhD
    
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    Faculty
    Humanities
    School
    School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/92828
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    • Curtin Theses
    Abstract

    This thesis examines the performative dimensions videogame affordances assume within online, live streaming environments. This approach considers how streamers configure their videogame play in terms of a potential audience, drawing on five semi-structured, in-depth interviews with Australian-based Twitch streamers to analyse how streamers leverage videogame affordances to produce “meaningful moments”. Guiding this thesis is the question of how the player-videogame relationship is maintained, fractured or altered within live-streaming environments such as Twitch.

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