Streaming your Identity: Navigating the Presentation of Gender and Sexuality through Live Streaming

Freeman, Guo; Wohn, Donghee Yvette

doi:10.1007/s10606-020-09386-w

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“…For example, Freeman and Wohn interviewed LGBTQIA+ streamers to explore how they present themselves to their audiences [29]. They found that although LGBTQIA-identifying streamers saw their streams as safe spaces for presenting their gender identity and sexual orientation, they were aware that this would subject them to occasional harassment.…”

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“…The first perspective is reminiscent of gamers perceiving inclusivity efforts as an attack on gaming [19]. The second perspective seems in accordance with LGBTQIA+ streamers that view gameplay content as secondary to the streamer themselves [29]. Over time this controversy was settled, with most users accepting the significance of gender and sexuality in gaming.…”

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“…Prior to the Tags system, LGBTQIA+ streamers and viewers found it difficult to find other LGBTQIA+ users, similar to difficulties with finding peers and role models offline [31,32]. Marginalized users in online spaces face unique challenges in how they can present their gender and sexuality identities to the public [34,29]. The "LGBTQIA+" tag made this step easier, allowing viewers to search for any streamers using the tag.…”

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To Tag or Not To Tag: The Interplay of the Twitch Tag System and LGBTQIA+ Visibility in Live Streaming

Lopez¹,

Freeman²

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Video Game Live Streaming (VGLS) has become increasingly popular in recent years. Twitch, one of the largest streaming sites, has implemented measures to protect and promote marginalized groups, including the LGBTQIA+ community.One example is the "LGBTQIA+" tag -a tag a streamer can attach to their steam. However, little is known regarding how the Twitch VGLS community actually reacts to this design feature and how such a feature affects LGBTQIA+ streamers' online presence and experiences of visibility. By qualitatively analyzing 381 threads and comments from the Twitch subreddit (r/Twitch), in this paper we identify the impacts of the Twitch Tag system on the VGLS community's perceptions of gender and sexuality in streaming, the streaming community's ability to find LGBTQIA+ streamers, and harassment towards LGBTQIA+ streamers. We not only expand existing knowledge of LGBTQIA+ gamers' unique experiences of online presence and visibility in streaming but also provide potential design recommendations for future live streaming platforms to better support LGBTQIA+ streamers and viewers.

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Section: Twitch Tags As Double-edged Swords For the Lgbtqia+ Community In Vglsmentioning

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To Tag or Not To Tag: The Interplay of the Twitch Tag System and LGBTQIA+ Visibility in Live Streaming

Lopez¹,

Freeman²

2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Las plataformas streaming ofrecen un nuevo campo de interacciones en el que se construye la identidad de género y la identidad sexual, ya que es el único medio en vivo digital que ofrece a tiempo real la autopresentación del género a través de interacciones entre las streamers y un público en su mayoría masculino (Freeman & Wohn, 2020). Pese a su singularidad, no se han identificado estudios centrados en la percepción de los hombres hacia los productos que auspician las mujeres streamers.…”

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Percepciones masculinas sobre el auspicio de marcas en transmisiones de mujeres streamers de videojuegos

Serra Pallarés,

Yalan Dongo

2023

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Durante la pandemia, el consumo de plataformas de streaming de videojuegos aumentó en contraste con la programación televisiva clásica, lo que impulsó la inversión publicitaria en streamers, principalmente hombres. Sin embargo, la relación entre las streamers mujeres y el patrocinio de marcas comerciales ha sido poco estudiada. A pesar de que generan visitas y seguidores, principalmente masculinos, su relación con las marcas es compleja debido a la autopresentación de género en tiempo real y los sesgos de género en la audiencia masculina. En este artículo, se analizan las percepciones de hombres de 18 a 28 años en Lima Metropolitana sobre el auspicio de marcas en las transmisiones de mujeres streamers en Facebook Gaming. Se empleó un enfoque cualitativo y una guía de indagación semiestructurada para identificar formas de sexualización en las interacciones entre la marca y la audiencia masculina, quienes deslegitiman el conocimiento y habilidad de las streamers en los juegos.

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“…This form of media is in between mass media and interpersonal media, which is referred to as masspersonal (O'Sullivan and Carr, 2018): the streamer is broadcasting to a general, unknown audience, similar to mass media such as legacy television, which means that streams have a performative element (e.g. Bingham, 2017;Cata, 2020;Freeman and Wohn, 2020;Pellicone and Ahn, 2017;Ruberg and Lark, 2020;Woodcock and Johnson, 2019;Zhang and Hjorth, 2019). At the same time, the streamer is also able to have one-on-one interactions with the people who are typing live comments, which can be considered interpersonal.…”

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Predictors of parasocial interaction and relationships in live streaming

McLaughlin

Wohn

2021

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The purpose of the current article was to explore parasocial phenomena in the unique and interactive context of live streaming. Specifically, the predictors of parasocial interactions (PSIs) and parasocial relationships (PSRs) were compared. In the past, the terms ‘parasocial interaction’ and ‘parasocial relationship’ have been used interchangeably, even though they are distinct constructs – which has confused researchers’ understanding of these phenomena. The current study aims to begin to disentangle our understanding of these two constructs by studying the predictors for each construct separately. An online survey was utilized to collect data on PSRs, PSIs, and various parasocial predictors that fell into three categories: streamer (source) characteristics, viewer characteristics, and behavioral (relationship) characteristics. Results indicate that streamer characteristics were the most important predictors of both PSIs and PSRs in the live streaming context, although characteristics of the viewer and relationship were also influential. These findings indicate that message sources can modify their content to encourage parasocial phenomena in their audience. This is encouraging, as research suggests that parasocial phenomena lead to many positive repercussions for the media and so are generally considered a goal of media personae.

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Streaming your Identity: Navigating the Presentation of Gender and Sexuality through Live Streaming

Cited by 23 publications

References 56 publications

To Tag or Not To Tag: The Interplay of the Twitch Tag System and LGBTQIA+ Visibility in Live Streaming

To Tag or Not To Tag: The Interplay of the Twitch Tag System and LGBTQIA+ Visibility in Live Streaming

Percepciones masculinas sobre el auspicio de marcas en transmisiones de mujeres streamers de videojuegos

Predictors of parasocial interaction and relationships in live streaming

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