Material Culture on Twitch: Live-Streaming Cosplay, Gender, and Beauty
Year: 2021
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Nicolle Lamerichs addresses pioneering paratextual forms of communication and play on streaming platforms and mainly Twitch. In »Material Culture on Twitch. Live-Streaming Cosplay, Gender, and Beauty«, she concentrates on Twitch's tag »cosplay« and demonstrates how »cosplayers comment and build upon narrative and engage in what might be called embodied paratextuality.« Looking ahead, however, Lamerichs calls for a revision of existing theories of paratextuality: »To capture platform fan-dom,we need to look beyond individual texts and signs, and consider these texts as a system.«
Source: Bild und Bit
Author: Nicolle Lamerichs
Language: English
Topic: Digital Games and Media
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4200422964