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001416584 02470 $$2Handle$$ahttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12419/678
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001416584 245__ $$aThe Polymediated Experience of Broadcasting and Consuming Highly-Skilled Video Game Gameplay
001416584 269__ $$a2019-12
001416584 336__ $$aThesis
001416584 502__ $$bMaster of Arts in Communication
001416584 520__ $$aThis thesis explores how the increase in accessibility of live broadcasting platforms for players of video games, such as Twitch.tv, affects the ways highly-skilled game players are using their gameplay to create content to be consumed by others. For players and viewers who commit to beating a game as quickly as possible, or speedrunning it, preference for this type of content leads to both groups coming together in community around their shared gameplay interests. This paper applies the polymedia theory of Madianou and Miller (2013) and the concept of polymediation (Calka, 2015) to explore how these groups experience gameplay in a mediated setting.  
Through ethnographic observations at a major speedrunning broadcasting event and a public chat server, and follow-up interviews and Super Mario World gameplay, three ways in which this type of gameplay content is mediated are analyzed. First, it is mediated through the deliberate, audience-focused additions of technological and gameplay-enhancing content. Second, it is mediated through a purposeful separation of casual gaming for entertainment from “serious” gameplay as a craft. Finally, it is mediated through the engagement and collaboration of an inclusive gameplay-centered community.
001416584 6531_ $$apolymedia
001416584 6531_ $$apolymediation
001416584 6531_ $$amediated experiences
001416584 6531_ $$agameplay
001416584 6531_ $$aspeedrunning
001416584 6531_ $$avideo games
001416584 7001_ $$aLuttrull, Benjamin$$uUniversity of Southern Indiana
001416584 72014 $$aYoung, Stephanie
001416584 72014 $$aRick, Jessica
001416584 72014 $$aTew, Chad
001416584 8564_ $$96986f312-f76c-41ce-81d9-8faeace861b1$$s450343$$uhttps://library.usi.edu/record/1416584/files/Luttrull%20Thesis%20-%2012032019%20FINAL.pdf
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001416584 980__ $$aTHESIS