This book examines the politics of being a gamer in the digital age withan in-depth study of the communities of gamers who populate live-videostreaming sites.This text offers an innovative theoretical and methodological study ofgamers in their community. It explores gamers as citizens and asks how gamersare political in view of their activities on stream. Ilya Brookwell examineshow gamers live out their daily lives on live-video streams and how they usetheir associated new platforms and tools, including live-video streams such asTwitch.tv and online web fora, to engage with “live-video politics”. It exploresthe relationship between gamers, gaming, and streaming, highlighting howgamers develop a notion of self that is fundamentally located in community.Gamers consequently create, inhabit, as well as inherit a political world. Withstreaming communities offering unique insights into what it means to live ina digital age, the book explores how gamers find hopeful openings, as well aslimits, through streaming. The book highlights how gamers can take an activerole in politics and democracy in a digital age.Interesting reading for undergraduate students, postgraduate researchers,and academics of media, cultural and communication studies, video gamestudies, and digital media studies.
