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Put Your “Hand Emotes in the Air:” Twitch Concerts as Unsuccessful Large‐Scale Interaction Rituals

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: Recent years have seen mediated concerts grow in popularity. As physical events, concerts accommodate both small‐ and large‐scale interaction. However, the extent to which these interactions establish emotional energy online is debated. Combining video observations and video elicitation interviews with participants of live music on the online platform Twitch, this paper explores this growing form of music consumption while also adding to the debate on the appropriateness of the virtual sphere in accommodating successfulinteraction rituals. It finds that the online sphere is more suited to small‐scale interaction. Large‐scale interaction rituals are unsuccessful, suffering from acontext collapse,social convergence, and norhythmic entrainment.

Source: Symbolic Interaction

DOI: 10.1002/symb.605

Author: Femke Vandenberg

Institution: Erasmus University Rotterdam

Language: English

Topic: Music History and Culture

Subfield: Music

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,350

Funder: Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam