Let's Play: Video Games on Video

Catalog description

This course focuses on the culture and performance of video game streaming on popular video networks like YouTube or Twitch. Students will analyze certain streamers’ videos and read ethnographic research / case studies on streaming communities, in preparation for running their own schedule of weekly game streams. Altogether, this class is intended as an introduction to performing game streams and video-based game criticism, as well as an acknowledgement that academic games programs have a public obligation to critically engage with streaming culture -- to promote a more respectful and more inclusive community discourse around video games.