Prospectus, September 20, 2000

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Persona Play in Videogame Livestreaming: An Ethnography of Performance on Twitch

Twitch.tv (‘Twitch’) is a livestreaming platform known for the live broadcasting (‘streaming’) of videogame-related content. It is also the most popular livestreaming platform in most countries. Drawing upon over one thousand hours of ethnographic observation across twenty-one Twitch channels, and six months of part-time streaming, this thesis investigates how streaming persona is constructed and performed on Twitch. Streaming persona, the thesis posits, is to be differentiated from more straightforward readings of streamer identity as performance. This thesis instead shows that streaming persona is constructed and performed collectively by both human and nonhuman actors in a Twitch stream. It does this by intervening in five core areas of interdisciplinary concern. The first of these explores new ways of understanding perceptions of authenticity that are constructed and denied as a result of streamer decisions, including an analysis of ways that gendered streamer performances affect perceptions of authenticity. Secondly, this thesis presents a new perspective on the conflicting and negotiated agencies of different stream actors during a stream, including games and the Twitch platform as nonhuman actors. The third core area of interest extends existing scholarship on moderation and governance by investigating boundary-work as a playful activity performed by multiple stream actors, including focused examinations of boundary-work associated with game-centric practices, such as spoiling content, and toxic behaviours. Fourthly, this thesis presents a highly novel exploration of how time on Twitch is arranged and experienced differently by different stream actors and the associated temporal politics of the platform. And fifthly, it intervenes in existing research on both games and Twitch by examining (digital) games as stream actors that perform alongside the streamer, spectators, and platform, thereby presenting new ways to understand games, game play, and why streaming and spectating game play are compelling activities. The concept of streaming persona allows for an exploration of how social identities are constructed and performed through and with the Twitch platform and its users. As such, it provides novel insights into the sociality, culture, politics, and economics of Twitch

Yale Medicine : Alumni Bulletin of the School of Medicine, Fall 1994- Summer 1996

This volume contains Yale medicine: alumni bulletin of the School of Medicine, v.29 (Fall 1994) through v.30 (Summer 1996). Prepared in cooperation with the alumni and development offices at the School of Medicine. Earlier volumes are called Yale School of Medicine alumni bulletins, dating from v.1 (1953) through v.13 (1965). Digitized with funding from the Arcadia fund, 2017.https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/yale_med_alumni_newsletters/1012/thumbnail.jp

The Evolving Southern Gothic: Traditions of Racial, Gender, and Sexual Horror in the Imagined American South

In this dissertation, “The Evolving Southern Gothic: Traditions of Racial, Gender, and Sexual Horror in the Imagined American South,” I advocate a reclaiming of the Gothic as a critical lens for study of literature set in the American South. The term “Southern Gothic” is one that has been maligned by a some scholars who suggest it is too-readily applied to the region’s literature; however, because Gothic tropes—including grotesque figures, haunted houses, ghosts, and vampires—have enjoyed increasing popularity in literature and film about the American South over the past eighty years, it is imperative to theorize more fully the effects of this modal/regional pairing. Oftentimes, the Gothic is invoked to convey the oppressiveness of corrupt establishments or ideologies; it is little surprise, then, that when it is applied to a region with a unique history of slavery, lynching and prolonged segregation, the Southern Gothic frequently works to undercut institutionalized racism. However, the strategic ways in which Southern Gothic texts tend to link race to issues of gender and sexuality are rather more unexpected. Examining the trajectory of this repeated connection between race, gender, and sexuality in a variety of “Southern Gothic” texts from 1930 to the present, I argue that as opposed to simply rehashing the brutal racism of a Civil War or Jim Crow-era South, authors and filmmakers have used this literary mode not only to highlight the constructedness of racial caste systems, gender and sexual norms, and Southern exceptionalism but also to critique the often violent means through which these divisions are manufactured and upheld

Defying Victimhood: Women and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

The chapters in this volume cover a wide range of women’s post-conflict peacebuilding experiences in different parts of the world. Post-conflict situations are windows of opportunity during which gender relations can and should be rethought and which, if properly utilized, can serve as the right moment to “rewrite” the rules and practices that previously served as obstacles to the participation of women in society. Overall, our book is meant to challenge the popular and often-propagated assumption that women should be supported, empowered and given a voice merely in their roles as victims. Collectively, we provide evidence in support of the growing understanding at international, national and local levels that while – and because – women are disproportionately affected by war, they can be powerful agents of positive and sustainable change if brought on board and given the chance to participate in every aspect of a society’s peacebuilding process

The Whitworthian 2004-2005

The Whitworthian student newspaper, September 2004-May 2005.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/whitworthian/1088/thumbnail.jp

Uprooting, trauma, and confinement: psychiatry in refugee camps, 1945 -1993

This thesis is a history of psychiatry through the lens of refugees, and a history of refugees through the lens of psychiatry. It explores the history of psychiatry in medical humanitarianism and refugee relief from the end of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War. My research shows that throughout the period under study, psychiatrists have approached refugees through three perspectives: as uprooted and homeless people, as people confined in a camp and dependent on humanitarian assistance, and as traumatized victims who have been through horrific experiences. I trace how the notion of ‘trauma’ came to occupy a central place in discourses on refugee mental health. The centrality of the trauma of the Holocaust to the psychological legacy of World War II did not figure prominently in the minds of humanitarians, doctors, and policy makers in the immediate aftermath of the war. Europe’s refugee problem was seen in terms of population displacement and not the aftermath of genocide. At the time psychiatrists pointed not to the horrors of Nazi persecution, but to the event of ‘uprooting’ from the homeland as the major cause of psychic suffering in refugees. Despite a flurry of activity on the mental health aspects of camp containment, repatriation, and resettlement in the 1940s and 1950s, much of this work was forgotten by the 1960s when refugees became a Third World phenomenon. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, very little attention was paid to mental health in humanitarian crises. The limited engagement with mental health issues in refugees in postcolonial independent African states happened in the context of modernisation and nation building rather than humanitarian relief. This trend was reversed in the 1980s, when a new generation of Western humanitarians brought their own historical baggage emanating from the legacy of the Holocaust to refugee camps on the Thai-Cambodian border. The notion that Cambodians were uniquely traumatized was a popular one, and it was here that the idea of trauma and the now ubiquitous diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder were first applied in a humanitarian crisis. In this PhD, an interdisciplinary project encompassing history of medicine and refugee studies, I seek to historicize what Liisa Malkki has called the ‘psychologizing modes of knowledge and therapeutic forms of relationship’ that refugees are often subjected to by those who study them