Twitch
Johnson, Mark R.
- 出版商: Polity
- 出版日期: 2024-09-04
- 售價: $1,070
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,017
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 272
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 1509558594
- ISBN-13: 9781509558599
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商品描述
Twitch is the leading live streaming platform in most of the world and an integral part of contemporary digital gaming. Millions of people broadcast their digital game play (as well as other activities) to over a hundred million people who regularly visit the site.
In this accessible book, Mark R. Johnson offers both a synthesis of existing Twitch research and a new way to understand Twitch as a public forum for gaming. Drawing on ideas of the ancient Greek ""agora"" or public forum, Johnson demonstrates how Twitch has become the key location for digital game players looking to understand what is contemporary, relevant, and important in modern gaming culture. He argues that Twitch has constructed a very particular kind of public forum for gaming, an understanding which emerges from analysing the platform through its technological infrastructure, its streamers and viewers, its broadcast content, and its tightly knit communities. While this forum helps shape gaming culture, it also exhibits many of gaming's existing problems with harassment and cultural exclusivity. Despite being the essential public space for contemporary gaming, Johnson shows how Twitch is far more complex than it first appears.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars of games and streaming studies, media studies, and anyone with an interest in the rapidly changing nature of online communication.
In this accessible book, Mark R. Johnson offers both a synthesis of existing Twitch research and a new way to understand Twitch as a public forum for gaming. Drawing on ideas of the ancient Greek ""agora"" or public forum, Johnson demonstrates how Twitch has become the key location for digital game players looking to understand what is contemporary, relevant, and important in modern gaming culture. He argues that Twitch has constructed a very particular kind of public forum for gaming, an understanding which emerges from analysing the platform through its technological infrastructure, its streamers and viewers, its broadcast content, and its tightly knit communities. While this forum helps shape gaming culture, it also exhibits many of gaming's existing problems with harassment and cultural exclusivity. Despite being the essential public space for contemporary gaming, Johnson shows how Twitch is far more complex than it first appears.
This book is essential reading for students and scholars of games and streaming studies, media studies, and anyone with an interest in the rapidly changing nature of online communication.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
Twitch是全球大部分地區領先的直播平台,也是當代數位遊戲的重要組成部分。數百萬人將他們的數位遊戲遊玩(以及其他活動)直播給每天定期訪問該網站的上億人。
在這本易於理解的書中,馬克·R·約翰遜(Mark R. Johnson)既綜合了現有的Twitch研究,又提出了一種新的理解Twitch作為遊戲公共論壇的方式。約翰遜借鑒了古希臘的「agora」或公共論壇的概念,展示了Twitch如何成為數位遊戲玩家尋求了解當代遊戲文化中什麼是當代、相關和重要的關鍵場所。他認為Twitch建立了一種非常特殊的遊戲公共論壇,這種理解是通過分析平台的技術基礎設施、直播主和觀眾、廣播內容以及緊密結合的社群來獲得的。儘管這個論壇有助於塑造遊戲文化,但它也展示了遊戲中現有的許多問題,如騷擾和文化排他性。約翰遜展示了Twitch遠比表面看起來的要複雜得多,儘管它是當代遊戲的重要公共空間。
這本書對於遊戲和直播研究、媒體研究的學生和學者以及對於網絡溝通快速變化性質感興趣的任何人來說都是必讀之作。
作者簡介
Mark R. Johnson is Lecturer in Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Mark R. Johnson 是悉尼大學數位文化講師。