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Category Archives: Streaming
Decoding Destiny aka Steve Bonnell Part IV (5-26-24)
00:10 Decoding Destiny Part One, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15483300:20 Decoding Destiny Part Two, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15483700:30 Decoding Destiny Part Three, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15491000:50 DTG: Destiny- Discussing Debates, Drama, Depravity & ‘Doing Your Own Research’, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf1IjlbQ33E05:45 Destiny wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destiny_(streamer)12:30 Destiny clip on allegations about JF and the missing … Continue reading
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Decoding Destiny aka Steve Bonnell Part Three (4-28-24)
03:00 The Key Ingredient To Fostering Intimacy (That Most Of Us Miss), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3nXYVlPrcY08:00 DTG: Destiny: Debate King and/or Degenerate?, https://decoding-the-gurus.captivate.fm/episode/destiny-the-edge-of-unhinged-degeneracy20:00 The Power of Podcasting: Telling Stories Through Sound, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15490528:00 Podcasting as an Intimate Medium, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15489241:00 Claire Khaw joins 50:00 Skoto … Continue reading
Decoding Destiny aka Steve Bonnell Part Two (4-22-24)
01:00 How to write effectively, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=15477406:00 Decoding Destiny, https://www.patreon.com/DecodingTheGurus/20:00 Outback ringer, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13085004/22:00 The Tyranny of Distance: How Distance Shaped Australian History, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=13220949:00 How We Change: (And Ten Reasons Why We Don’t), https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=1548231:01:00 Body Brokers, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Brokers1:03:00 Fodder for Christ 1:40:00 Why … Continue reading
Addicted To Livestreams
From this 2021 paper: * Indian users spend eight hours on various live streaming platforms, which is far more than the average six-hour trend globally (Ganjoo, 2018). These trends are visible on a regular basis. Recently, an incident was reported … Continue reading
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The role of wishful identification, emotional engagement, and parasocial relationships in repeated viewing of live-streaming games
From this 2020 paper: * As viewing and interactions with others increase, audiences develop certain psychological feelings, such as wishful identification with the celebrity live-streamers and emotional engagement with other viewers, which go beyond the vicarious experience of watching a … Continue reading
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Streamer Motives and User-Generated Content on Social Live-Streaming Services
From this 2016 study: * To stream or not to stream – that is the question plaguing the minds of people all over the globe. Ever since humanity discovered the wonders of social media people have also become unnervingly aware … Continue reading
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