Game-swinging on Twitch: an affordances perspective

Church, E. Mitchell; Thambusamy, Ravi

doi:10.1007/s12525-022-00574-8

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“…Called self-sovereign identities (SSI), these systems enable the management of digital identities on user devices and thus avoid the problem that digital identities need to be shared with different platforms and services. Most SSI initiatives are based on blockchain infrastructures, which are known to safeguard trust among unknown actors, and store proponents, the relationship between these models is a moving target and platform providers need to strive constantly for engaging platform participants by augmenting their services (Church & Thambusamy, 2022).…”

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“…Back then, games and social media were not so different; these all consisted of people communicating with one another through text shared via cyberspace. Over time, however, social media and gaming began to differentiate themselves from one another and develop their own unique subcultures as they developed new affordances and mechanics (e.g., Baird, 2022 ; Mitchell-Church and Thambusamy, 2022 ). Today, few people would confuse Fortnite and Facebook, for instance, but both share the good and bad communication that their Usenet and AOL forebears once did (e.g., Hannan, 2018 ; Hilvert-Bruce and Neill, 2020 ).…”

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Comparing shades of darkness: trolling victims’ experiences on social media vs. online gaming

Cook,

Tang,

Lin

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Although there is ample literature available on toxicity in games, as there is regarding trolling on social media, there are few to no cross-platform studies on toxicity and trolling. In other words, the extant literature focuses on one platform at a time instead of comparing and contrasting them. The present work aims to rectify this gap by analyzing interviews from a larger study of 22 self-proclaimed victims of in-game trolling to not only determine whether social media or gaming communities are considered more toxic but also to explore how definitions of the word ‘trolling’ change depending on the platform in question. We found that while definitions of in-game trolling behavior focused on behavioral styles of trolling (e.g., throwing one’s avatar into enemy fire to disadvantage one’s team, and blocking other players’ avatars’ movement), social media trolling is defined by more sinister actions such as misinformation spreading and ‘canceling’ other users. We also found that gaming is perceived as generally more toxic than social media, often due to company policies or lack thereof. Practical and theoretical implications for the study of toxicity in all online communities – gaming or social-media based – are discussed.

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Mapping the terrain of social and livestream commerce research through the affordance lens: A bibliometric review and research agenda

Kawaf,

Girotto

2024

Electronic Commerce Research and Applications

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Game-swinging on Twitch: an affordances perspective

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Electronic Markets on platform culture

Electronic Markets on platform culture

Comparing shades of darkness: trolling victims’ experiences on social media vs. online gaming

Mapping the terrain of social and livestream commerce research through the affordance lens: A bibliometric review and research agenda

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