Designing Live-Streaming Ecologies: Learning in and Across Synchronous Media

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposia analyzes young people’s activity on the live-streaming platform, Twitch, to examine the tensions and possibilities for learning positioned at the intersection of digital gaming and live-streaming. We argue for more robust analyses of how tools, practices, and discourses travel in and between sites of synchronous media to develop a deeper understanding of how to design learning ecologies in the digital age. Drawing on previous conceptualizations of transmedia mobilization (Constanza-Chock, 2014), we build on the term “transmedia activity” as a heuristic for understanding how young people in our studies hybridized virtual tools and performative play to mediate their sociomaterial relations (Fenwick & Landri, 2012). Our studies have implications for teacher pedagogy, youth agency, and the design of learning ecologies.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Learning Sciences

Chair

• Kris D. Gutiérrez, University of California - Berkeley

Papers

• Learning Through the Sociopolitical Dimensions of Twitch: Young People as Historical Actors With Live-Stream Media - Edward Rivero, University of California - Berkeley; Sandra Jacobo, University of California - Berkeley; Jasmine Ayromlou

• Direct Streamer Interactions With Their Audience to Build an Online Community: DEERE, LGBTQ+, and Drag Culture - Jasmine Ayromlou; Sandra Jacobo, University of California - Berkeley; Edward Rivero, University of California - Berkeley

• Indirect Streamer Interactions to Maintain a Twitch Channel: Moderators, Bots, and DEERE - Jasmine Ayromlou; Sandra Jacobo, University of California - Berkeley; Edward Rivero, University of California - Berkeley

• Online Transmedia Ethnography: Developing Digital Ethnographic Approaches - Sandra Jacobo, University of California - Berkeley; Edward Rivero, University of California - Berkeley; Jasmine Ayromlou