Schedule
8:30-9:00 – Coffee and registration
9:00-9:15 – Welcome
9:15 – 10:30 – Keynote speaker: T.L. Taylor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): “Play as Transformative Work”
10:30 – 10:40 – Coffee break
10:40 – 12:00 – Paper Session I: Digital labour and live streaming
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Colten Meisner (Texas Christian University): “Self-branding on live streaming technologies: An affordances approach to digital labor”
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Crystal Abidin (Deakin University): “Streaming, scheming, and sinning: Influencer cultures of live video feeds”
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Felan Parker (University of Toronto): “Are game streamers cultural intermediaries?”
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Mark Johnson (University of Alberta) & Jamie Woodcock (University of Oxford): “‘And today’s top donator is’: How live streamers on Twitch.tv monetize and gamify broadcasts”
12:00 – 12:50 – Lunch
12:50 - 2:10 pm – Paper Session II: Emerging areas
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Ugo Roux (Université de Toulon), Noémie Roques (Université Paris) & Sébastien Savard (Université de Montréal): “Tabletop role-playing game and technology: How streaming has extended the participation frames and presence planes of the game”
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Simeona Petkova (Amsterdam University of Applied Science) & Keying Yang (Amsterdam University of Applied Science): “Conceptualising Chinese lifestyle mobile streaming apps: The case of ‘Yingke’”
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Mia Consalvo (Concordia University) & Andy Phelps (Rochester Institute of Technology): “Performing game development live on Twitch”
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Esther Hammelburg (University of Amsterdam): “Living/re-living: Time and the mediatised experience of events”
2:10 - 2:25 Coffee Break
2:25 - 3:45 Paper Session III: Identity and self-presentation
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Giada Marino (University of Urbino Carlo Bo): “Online identities continuous reorganization: Are Instagram Stories shaping self-presentation practices on the Instagram?”
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Will Partin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): “‘Get Paid, Homie!’: Masculinity, aspiration, and the labor of live streaming”
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Kishonna Gray (University of Illinois - Chicago): “For the culture: Examining the digital praxis of Black streamers”
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Karen Skardzius (York University): “Examining the affordances, constraints, and conventions of Twitch.tv through a gendered lens”
3:45 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00 Group Discussion: Future directions
5:00 – Return AoIR participants to conference location