Community and Capital: Experiences of Women Game Streamers in Southeast Asia

Katrina Paola B. Alvarez; Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen

doi:10.1145/3481888

Community and Capital: Experiences of Women Game Streamers in Southeast Asia

Katrina Paola B. Alvarez, Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen

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This study explores how women game live streamers in Southeast Asia make sense of their experiences as performers and gamers on streaming platforms dominated by Western products and performers. We conducted 13 in-depth interviews guided by an interpretive phenomenological approach to understand their experiences. Women streamers strive to develop audience communities and gain acceptance in the larger gaming community, in part by successfully displaying their own gaming capital. However, they face challenges regarding audience connection and maintenance, presenting their own femininity amid stereotypes and misogyny, and the influence of their respective cultures on their success as performers. We discuss directions of study that further explore gaming and streaming as a form of cultural labor in Asia and the world.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-22
Number of pages	22
Journal	ACM Transactions on Social Computing
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3481888
Publication status	Published - 25 Oct 2021
Externally published	Yes

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