Sharing emotion while spectating video game play: Exploring Twitch users' emotional change after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

Chae, Seung Woo; Lee, Sung Hyun

doi:10.1016/j.chb.2022.107211

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“…It is paramount to state that the current pandemic poses a threat to the populace, not just as a risk of ensuing distress economically and to human life, but also has some psychological impact. Unfortunately, this sporadic pandemic could be specifically challenging for persons with underlying mental health conditions such as obsessive-compulsive disorders or anxiety [29], [30].…”

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“…It is therefore highly recommended that future research should investigate the affecting factors of physical interaction amongst individuals towards their online interaction attitudes. A recent study explored the emotional change of Twitch users during the COVID-19 pandemic [29]. From the results, it was discovered that the anxiety and anger of users significantly increased in the era of the pandemic, whereas sadness and positive emotion did not tally.…”

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Technology Dependency and Impact During COVID-19: A Systematic Literature Review and Open Challenges

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The COVID-19 pandemic is still a challenge in many countries, although life must proceed while ensuring the pandemic is managed critically. Due to the delay in producing permanent medical intervention, despite the availability of vaccines, there is still a need to depend on technology in performing several tasks. A systematic literature review that provides comprehensive evidence on technology dependence and the impact of technology on individuals during the pandemic is lacking. This study systematically reviewed scholarly works related to technology dependency from a broad view since the pandemic and mapped the research findings into a taxonomy, thus establishing the trend in technology type, major areas of technology dependency, and the impact of technology during the pandemic. The mapped taxonomy is used to expound on open challenges and recommendations. The final set from the systematic search was 76 articles. Technology might be an avenue for administering and enhancing health services, improving outreaches, and supporting curbing the spread of diseases. However, the impact of technology dependence is both positive and negative. A systematic mapping was conducted to explore the literature on the impacts of technology, where there is a need for further research. Notwithstanding the category, most of the reviewed articles emphasized the usage and impact of technology at such a time of the pandemic and provided insights on the manner of addressing them. Realistically, there has been an acceleration of digitalization trends in the present era of the COVID-19 pandemic and the possibility of rapid development of novel digital technologies.

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“…En lo que se refiere a la narrativa, Twitch genera canales de contenido en los que se mezclan el entretenimiento, la información y la emoción, como en los momentos vividos durante los periodos de confinamiento provocados por la covid-19 (Chae y Lee, 2022). De esta forma, encontramos comunicadores como Pablo Simón que incluyen, con toda naturalidad, en su canal el debate político y los videojuegos en la misma emisión.…”

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Periodistas y comunicadores en Twitch: medios más allá de las redes sociales

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Majuelos

2022

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Periodistas y comunicadores descubrieron Twitch a mediados del año 2020, coincidiendo con los meses de cuarentena decretados por la covid-19, durante los que una gran parte de la población buscó en Internet la comunicación con el exterior que el confinamiento impedía. Debido a su temática, dedicada a los deportes electrónicos, y a la juventud de sus seguidores, esta red social especializada había pasado desapercibida durante años para el gran público. Lo que en un principio era una plataforma de difusión de partidas de videojuegos, empezó a convertirse, con la llegada de los periodistas, en un espacio de información y entretenimiento tras la creación de nuevos canales dirigidos a un público más adulto. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la presencia de periodistas y comunicadores en Twitch, cómo estructuran sus canales, el uso que hacen de este soporte en comparación con otras plataformas similares, así como las diferencias y semejanzas con la actividad de los creadores videojugadores nativos de Twitch y, por último, evaluar si Twitch reúne las condiciones necesarias para convertirse en un soporte apropiado para la comunicación informativa. A partir de las emisiones realizadas en Twitch por cinco periodistas y comunicadores, se estudia cómo adaptan su contenido a las características comunes de la plataforma, que pueden observarse en los comportamientos y en los contenidos generados por los creadores videojugadores.

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Such trends have been extensively characterized by several authors [21][22][23] and have been conducive to a crucial breakthrough in understanding the monetization system of the platform 24 . Nonetheless, the study of the monetization mechanisms and the logic that drives the actors in the market are mainly based on qualitative or survey materials 25 , and thus have not been able to describe the large scale dynamic related to content monetization in Twitch.In addition, Twitch gained much popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic 26 , more than doubling the platform's audience from 1.26 million average concurrent viewers in 2019 to 2.78 million in 2021 27 , making the study of the global market momentum of the platform even more urgent 28 , while at the same time highlighting the platform's potential in tracking and characterizing emergent social trends among the young 29 .Moving from this urgency, the goal of this paper is to apply computational social science tools to unveil what are the mechanisms of monetization in Twitch and explain in parallel the social dynamics embedded in the platform that enables such market system. The importance of our findings is twofold.

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“…In addition, Twitch gained much popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic 26 , more than doubling the platform's audience from 1.26 million average concurrent viewers in 2019 to 2.78 million in 2021 27 , making the study of the global market momentum of the platform even more urgent 28 , while at the same time highlighting the platform's potential in tracking and characterizing emergent social trends among the young 29 .…”

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Monetization in online streaming platforms: an exploration of inequalities in Twitch.tv

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Pilati

Tartari

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The live streaming platform Twitch underwent in recent years an impressive growth in terms of viewership and content diversity. The platform has been the object of several studies showcasing how streamers monetize their content via a peculiar system centered around para-sociality and community dynamics. Nonetheless, due to scarcity of data, lots is still unknown about the platform-wide relevance of this explanation as well as its effect on inequalities across streamers. In this paper, thanks to the recent availability of data showcasing the top 10,000 streamers revenue between 2019 and 2021, as well as viewership data from different sources, we characterized the popularity and audience monetization dynamics of the platform. Using methods from social physics and econometrics, we analyzed audience building and retention dynamics and linked them to observed inequalities. We found a high level of inequality across the platform, as well as an ability of top streamers to diversify their revenue sources, through audience renewal and diversification in monetization systems. Our results demonstrate that, even if the platform design and affordance favor monetization for smaller creators catering to specific niches, its non-algorithmic design still leaves room for classical choice biases allowing a few streamers to emerge, retain and renew a massive audience.

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Sharing emotion while spectating video game play: Exploring Twitch users' emotional change after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Technology Dependency and Impact During COVID-19: A Systematic Literature Review and Open Challenges

Technology Dependency and Impact During COVID-19: A Systematic Literature Review and Open Challenges

Periodistas y comunicadores en Twitch: medios más allá de las redes sociales

Monetization in online streaming platforms: an exploration of inequalities in Twitch.tv

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