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streaming @ the margins of play

The majority of people who livestream on sites like Twitch do it for very small or no audiences at all. Yet most research focuses on large, celebrity streamers. Since 2015, this research project has investigated those 'microstreamers' as they stream game play, game development, and other activities. It looks at how liveness, authenticity, a streaming meta and theories of serious and casual leisure are important ways to understand that practice.

Papers, Journal Articles, Book Chapters

Pages of Book

Coming Soon! 
Microstreaming on Twitch,

 MIT Press
 

by:

Mia Consalvo,
Marc Lajeunesse
& Andrei Zanescu

Playing the (streaming) game: (Re)presentations of success, challenges, and demand in streaming simulation games

January 2024, Kelly Boudreau, Mia Consalvo, Nick Bowman and Andy Phelps, Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Honolulu, HI, USA

Twitch as Metaplatform: Conglomeration and Platform Power

June 2022, Andrei Zanescu, Mia Consalvo and Marc Lajeunesse. Paper presented at Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production conference, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Game development live on Twitch: Observations of practice and educational synergies

2021, Mia Consalvo and Andrew Phelps. In Game Production Studies, edited by Olli Sotamaa and Jan Švelch, Amsterdam UP, pp. 123-129

A political economy of Twitch

April 2019, Mia Consalvo. Invited talk, More Than Just a Game V conference, London, UK

2018, Mia Consalvo. In Transgressions in Games and Play, edited by Kristine Jørgensen and Faltin Karlsen, MIT Press

Why did we think we wanted to become affiliates? Researching play by self-streaming on Twitch

October 2018, Mia Consalvo, Marc Lajeunesse and Andrei Zanescu. Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, Montreal, Canada

January 2017, Rainforest Scully-Blaker, Jason Begy, Mia Consalvo and Sarah Ganzon. Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Kona, USA

January 2023, Mia Consalvo, Kelly Boudreau, Nick Bowman and Andy Phelps, Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, HI, USA

January 2022, Andrew Phelps, Nick Bowman, Mia Consalvo and Sam Smythe. Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, online

January 2020, Andrew Phelps and Mia Consalvo. Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, USA

January 2019, Mia Consalvo and Andrew Phelps. Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Maui, USA

'I'm a player and an entertainer': Investigating the social and cultural contexts of live streaming

December 2018, Mia Consalvo. Keynote address, Authored Cultures/Authoring Cultures: Negotiating Control over Media Texts conference, Torun, Poland

2017, Mia Consalvo. Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 34, No. 1, 84-87

October 2016, Mia Consalvo and Marilyn Sugiarto. Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, Berlin, Germany

July 2022, Andrei Zanescu, Mia Consalvo and Marc Lajeunesse. Paper presented at Digital Games Research Association annual conference, Krakow, Poland

January 2021, Andrew Phelps, Mia Consalvo and Nick Bowman. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, online

Why game livestreaming matters: An examination of its cultural, social, political and economic impacts

May 2019, Mia Consalvo. Keynote address, Game Studies Division Preconference, International Communication Association annual conference, Washington, DC, USA

June 2020, Mia Consalvo, Marc Lajeunesse and Andrei Zanescu. Paper presented at Digital Games Research Association annual conference, cancelled

November 2018, Andrew Phelps and Mia Consalvo. Game Studies Preconference, National Communication association conference, Salt Lake City, USA

October 2017, Mia Consalvo and Roger Altizer. Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers annual conference, Tartu, Estonia

Additional Activities, Etc.

Team Members

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Mia Consalvo

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Nick Bowman

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Marc Lajeunesse

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Marilyn Sugiarto

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Andrei Zanescu

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Andrew Phelps

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