A midiatização do jogar: do círculo mágico aos circuitos-ambiente nos usos das redes digitais via streaming

Abstract

The live internet broadcast, via streaming, of the act of playing a videogame configures new, mediatized, ways of playing a game. How can we conceive and understand such configurations through the lenses of Communication and Mediatization? Which new ambient-circuits are formed therein? How can we view the character of the streamer, created through a hybridization between show host, commentator, game player and expert? This doctoral thesis leans over these and other questions to explore the inter- and intra- circuit relationships created from and within said processes, through an abductive approach, built upon inferences, and the observation of three case studies (the streamers Brian Kibler and Trump – Jeffrey Shih –, and the Brazilian gamin news site and portal, Overloadr), their streaming sessions and the media involved in such activities. We reach a concept of ambient-circuit formed as having at its core a magic circle, establishing new codes and codifications specific to each one and putting into operation the triad Rules-Ludic-Negotiations (conceived in this work).