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My new wip.

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Paper dolphin. A very rare piece of trivia

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T tonight not chicken T’night

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🤤 boreka. A little-bit- home baking

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T. Beef juice. No beef. Home cooked. Madras. 🥤🥩🤤🍚🤶🏼🦌🌿

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WEEK 9 - First, a way to escape for introverts, now an encouragement to socialise and share the experience of gaming…

#Sims & #Minecraft…i’m not embarrassed to admit when asked what my escape from reality was and sometimes, when given the time, still is today…but this is not the same anymore and i’ll explain why.

Today, the world of online gaming has shifted communities into even more active consumers of digitalised technology, through social gaming and online streaming, for example the platform #twitch. 

Live streaming as a new phenomenon, allows for individuals gaming privately in their rooms to broadcast live screen recordings whilst playing, “allowing gamers of all kinds to transform their private play into public entertainment.” (Taylor, TL 2018)

Time and resourcesare transforming the digital world with different techniques attempting to connect individuals, and therefore detach more from life as it stands without a device, and gaming is a supporting argument of this. 

Video, and online games attempt to give society a sense of more control over their actions and decisions, but ultimately, it is evident this addiction and obsession for some people just empathises how detached we are all becoming from ‘real life.’ However, the emergence of live stream gaming, seemingly connects gamers across the world, and introduces a social aspect to what once was seen as so isolating.

“That feeling—that I was not watching alone but instead alongside thousands of others in real time—was powerful.” (Taylor, TL 2018) 

Although many could still argue that the emergence of live stream gaming encourages people to isolate within four walls, I would argue that it is an improvement from the past, and opens floodgates to even more socialising opportunities. For example, individuals with social anxiety problems, that limit their initial real life connections, may feel more comfortable doing what they love with other people.

Another argument to support gaming culture today, is that of new creator income opportunities, that new platform #twitch and older platform #youtube can facilitate, “Live streaming offers professional esports players and teams opportunities to build their audience, brand, and incomes, while streaming their practice sessions—often straight out of their bedrooms” (Taylor, TL 2018)

However, it cannot be a completely positive, and safe platform as, like almost every online community, bullying and harassment still exists and sometimes prevails as a result of keyboard warriors. 

Keyboard warriors, or #trolls, are able to reign these digital communities as the ability to hide behind a screen, provides little accountability, and therefore “online harassment is so pervasive in digitised spaces that it is often viewed as the ‘norm.’” (Chia, Keogh, Leorke, and Nicoll 2020) 

Combatting the issue of digital harassment, is still a widespread problem across all platforms, providing threats for gaming communities which may explain some of the fear for the Platformisation of gaming that sees too todays social construction of live streaming.

Overall, like all platformisation happening around us today, digital communities encourage more activity from consumers, rather then passive standstills that existed previously, and I would argue this is good.

References - 

Aleena Chia, Brendan Keogh, Dale Leorke, and Benjamin Nicoll  (2020). "Platformisation in game development", Internet Policy Review 9 (4). DOI: 10.14763/2020.4.1515. 

Taylor, TL 2018, ‘Broadcasting ourselves’ (chapter 1), in Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming, Princeton University Press, pp.1-23 

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18 year throw back. I had a challenging project, my Grandad returned from the carpet store and I built, crafted and created and still it stands fighting. 🐶🦅👀🐊⛰️☺️

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Lunch 🍲🥗🏡☀️

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Flowers of our garden 💐🪷🌸🏡

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: throwback to #sanddown don’t be late 🫖🎉

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Jump on the wagon. Y not, May the sith be with you 👑

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15 year throw back to my AS research piece “B(=)C praying to the forbidden”

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Goats baa too (by two) 🐐O🐑

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📐🍐🤓 it’s not so transparent.

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The sand found its voice on the way to Mæcca, the sand asked… which desert of sand is better, the Sahara desert or the Arabian desert … to which the Sky replied sirius… we are all sand anyway.

Happy Easter. 40/40 and now chocolate fest 🐣🙏🏻