Fan Community and Celebrity in Video Game Spectatorship celebrity fan community fandom Felicia Day spectatorship video games Curator's Note Often dubbed "queen of the geeks," Felicia Day rose to internet fame as an early YouTube celebrity, ...
This is quite a problem in esports-- but, more generally in nearly all online spaces. There is something about the online space that shifts what offline would likely be microaggressions into aggressive behavior that can be sexist, racist, homophobic, able ...
Interesting post! (Re)playability also seems to be in play with forking-path RPGs, I think, given the wealth of playthroughs that are done to show video game spectators the different paths through a game's story, the different potential endings, etc. ...
Yes-- I think "playing differently" is very much at hand in a number of the lets-plays and streams I've seen that engage with/in (re)playability. Also, particularly the Minecraft communities that Ashley mentions above. ...
Yes-- those labels are problematic, I know, particularly because they have been created and are generally assigned by people who consider themselves to be "hardcore" gamers. In terms of Minecraft, have you run across the HermitCraft server / gro ...
Interesting post! I'd never come across this subset of videos. It's interesting to me how most of the affective work being done here relies on the voice-- at least in the video you've chosen (though, as you point out, the editing also does ...
I was also very interested in the ways in which Martha is initially consoled by "Ash." He doesn't become monstrous or uncanny to her until she sees him "in the flesh," as it were. To me, this may actually be a commentary on the wa ...
First, I think this is a great post, and I love that you're calling attention to the moments of purposeful masquerade within the diegesis, particularly because of the ways that (as you say) these diegetic moments resonate with the ways in which Masla ...
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