Understanding Political Communication and Political Communicators on Twitch
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.05186v1
- Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2024 21:10:24 GMT
- Title: Understanding Political Communication and Political Communicators on Twitch
- Authors: Sangyeon Kim,
- Abstract summary: This study explores Twitch politics by addressing three main questions.
To identify political streamers, I leveraged the Twitch API and supervised machine-learning techniques, identifying 574 political streamers.
I used topic modeling to analyze the content of political streams, revealing seven broad categories of political topics and a unique pattern of communication involving context-specific emotes''
This research contributes to our understanding of how new social media technologies influence political communication, particularly among younger audiences.
- Score: 5.014258830659803
- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: As new technologies rapidly reshape patterns of political communication, platforms like Twitch are transforming how people consume political information. This entertainment-oriented live streaming platform allows us to observe the impact of technologies such as ``live-streaming'' and ``streaming-chat'' on political communication. Despite its entertainment focus, Twitch hosts a variety of political actors, including politicians and pundits. This study explores Twitch politics by addressing three main questions: 1) Who are the political Twitch streamers? 2) What content is covered in political streams? 3) How do audiences of political streams interact with each other? To identify political streamers, I leveraged the Twitch API and supervised machine-learning techniques, identifying 574 political streamers. I used topic modeling to analyze the content of political streams, revealing seven broad categories of political topics and a unique pattern of communication involving context-specific ``emotes.'' Additionally, I created user-reference networks to examine interaction patterns, finding that a small number of users dominate the communication network. This research contributes to our understanding of how new social media technologies influence political communication, particularly among younger audiences.
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