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DESCRIPTION:Hybrid Event with in-person and zoom webinar options:\n\nPlease
  signs up via Eventbrite.\n\nChristine H. Tran on 'Homewrecker Platforms: 
 Games\, Gender & the Media Housework of Live Streaming.'\n\nDo gamers buil
 d houses worth living and playing inside? Replaying Tran's ethnographic wo
 rk with gendered and BIPOC professional game streamers on Twitch.tv\, this
  talk offers an overview of the “home studio” as a multi-sided site of gen
 dered and racialized struggle for cultural worker autonomy in the platform
 ization of cultural production—a struggle that is both local and transnati
 onal in scale. (for full event description see below)\n\nChristine H. Tran
  (they/she) is a multimedia artist\, digital consultant\, and PhD Candidat
 e at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information Their SSHRC-funded
  dissertation explores the interplay of gender\, race\, and domestic labou
 r in the careers of women and racialized live streamers. Christine has bee
 n appointed to Graduate Fellowships at the Centre for Culture & Technology
  (2022-23) and Massey College (2019--) and was a Research Assistant on the
  SSHRC-funded project Cultural Workers Organize. Their writing on Internet
  culture\, digital labour\, and liveness in ludic media has been published
  in peer reviewed journals such as Television & New Media\, Communication\
 , Culture & Critique and New Media & Society.\n\nThis event is part of the
  5th Season of the Feminist and Accessible Publishing and Communications T
 echnologies Speaker and Workshop Series\, organized by Dr. Alex Ketchum.\n
 \nOur series was made possible thanks to our sponsors: SSHRC\, the Institu
 te for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies (IGSF)\, the DIGS Lab\, M
 ilieux\, Initiative for Indigenous Futures\, MILA\, Dean of Arts Grant\, R
 eQEF\, and more (see our website!)\n\nThere is no fee required to attend t
 his event. We will provide professional captions in english.\n\nYou can wa
 tch other past events here.\n\n________\n\nFull event description:\n\n'Do 
 gamers build houses worth living and playing inside? Replaying my ethnogra
 phic work with gendered and BIPOC professional game streamers on Twitch.tv
 \, this talk offers an overview of the “home studio” as a multi-sided site
  of gendered and racialized struggle for cultural worker autonomy in the p
 latformization of cultural production—a struggle that is both local and tr
 ansnational in scale.\n\nFrom greenscreens in the bedroom to webcams in th
 e bathtub\, domestic surfaces underlie the professional broadcast of perso
 nality on Twitch.tv\, Amazon’s $15 billion platform for live video enterta
 inment. Yet for the BIPOC and gendered professional game streamers\, house
 hold visibility is fraught. Toxic gamer cultures alter the experience of “
 being seen” on Twitch into precursors for harassment\, stalking\, doxing a
 nd chatbox raids that layer additional emotional labour in professional pl
 ay. Amidst a swell of ethnographic interest in the livestreamed enculturat
 ion of games (Johnson and Woodcock\, 2019\; Taylor 2018)\, it has become u
 rgent to understand the domesticating legacies of race and gender which ev
 eryday livestreaming has come to inherit from gaming cultures. And as the 
 infamous practice of “Zoom bombing” demonstrated (Jacob and Tran\, 2023\; 
 Tran\, 2021)\, it has also become urgent to understand how patterns of har
 assment and stalking in game streaming cultures have spread to nongaming v
 ideo spaces (Gray 2014\; Ruberg and Cullen\, 2020) and overlapping househo
 ld economies.\n\nTo address the interlocking legacies of digital and domes
 tic work\, I offer re-evaluations and redefinitions of “media housework” a
 s a genre of symbolic creation and lens through which to re-understand the
  ascent of live video cultures\, in and beyond games. As the infamous blog
  confessions of “EA Spouse” and “Rockstar Spouse” AAA studio “crunch” have
  revealed\, the precarious glamour of careers in games have been historica
 lly sustained by networks of feminised work and social reproduction--work 
 that sustains at the home and sites beyond the AAA studios. Spouses have p
 layed a vital role as public narrators of experience and exploitation acro
 ss the games industry (Bulut\, 2020\; Dyer Witheford and de Peuter\, 2006\
 ; Pettica-Haris et al.\, 2015). Well before the ascent of Twitch\, the dom
 estic and home studio space that been proved vital in the widespread of co
 mputational gaming cultures (Harvey\, 2015\; Nooney\, 2012). Within these 
 histories\, the game industry’s reliance on unpaid familial work done at h
 ome speaks to upon recent studies of domestication’s prevalence to the imm
 aterial labour of content production as a form of “digital housekeeping” (
 Li 2022\; Kennedy et al.\, 2015).\n\nDecades after American scholar Louise
  Kapp Howe (1977) coined “pink collar” to describe the traditional assignm
 ent of cleaning\, cooking\, and care as women’s work\, legacies of “gender
 ed work” still contort our valuations of labour. Terms like “invisible lab
 our” have become salient bywords for the historically unpaid\, devalued st
 atus of labour categorized as “women’s work” in the digital age (Jarrett 2
 015\; Terranova 2000)\, which has troubling effects on populations most hi
 storically excluded from professional leisure. Concerns from the 2010s tha
 t social media would constitute the “pink ghetto of tech” (Levinson\, 2015
 ) illustrate the vulnerability of platform self-promotion to these regimes
  of casualization through coding certain work as feminine (Duffy and Schwa
 rtz\, 2018). Here\, the ascent Twitch.tv and its intermediation of content
  creator networks offer a vibrant case study on why histories of social re
 production and feminist game studies are integral to deepening our underst
 anding of platform work\, in and beyond the home. '\n
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LOCATION:Peel 3487\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W7\, 3487 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Hybrid event with Christine H. Tran on 'Homewrecker Platforms: Game
 s\, Gender & the Media Housework of Live Streaming.'
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