Broadcasting Toxicity? A Study of League of Legends Streams

Adam Attouk () and Renaud Garcia-Bardidia ()
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Adam Attouk: UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université, NIMEC - Normandie Innovation Marché Entreprise Consommation - UNICAEN - Université de Caen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - ULH - Université Le Havre Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université - IRIHS - Institut de Recherche Interdisciplinaire Homme et Société - UNIROUEN - Université de Rouen Normandie - NU - Normandie Université
Renaud Garcia-Bardidia: UL UFR ALL - UFR Arts, lettres, langues - Nancy [Université de Lorraine] - UL - Université de Lorraine, LIS - Littératures, Imaginaire, Sociétés - UL - Université de Lorraine

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Abstract: The consumption of competitive multiplayer video games exposes players to displays of toxicity. These displays also manifest in the context of video game streaming. Through stream observations and player interviews, we explore what place toxicity occupies in the practice of streaming League of Legends and how it contributes to the creation of audiences around tacit feeling and framing rules about toxicity and broadly about styles of play.

Keywords: Framing rules; League of Legends; Twitch; Streaming; Toxicity; Video games (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-10-07
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Published in Youth and Globalization, 2025, 7 (1), pp.15-35

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