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" I am currently analyzing online toxicity on the streaming platform Twitch. That means I am looking into livestreams of games and the interaction between streamers and chat. Gaming discourse, especially in huge channels with 鈥榗rowdspeak鈥� is very hard to comprehend for people who are not participating because of specific codes, and many practices can seem very toxic. My research tries to investigate the positive, community-building functions of seemingly toxic linguistic behaviour"
Postdoctoral Fellow Profile: Tamara Bodden
Department of Linguistic Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
I am a Feodor Lynen Research Fellow from Germany's Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, working under the supervision of Dr. Maite Taboada in the Discourse Processing Lab at SFU
What do people think you do鈥攙ersus what you actually do? What do you want people to know about your research?
When people walk by my office it sometimes will seem like I am just watching entertaining streams all day鈥� Others think it is a pain to watch the often overstimulating or toxic content that is part of my project, but it is actually very exciting for me to see the deep intertextual origin of emotes or creative play with language that can be found in Twitch chats.
What do you aspire to create/learn/accomplish during your time at SFU?
I would love to contribute to a better understanding of Twitch streams as a linguistic research object by developing methodologies and creating a corpus that can be used in further research. I also hope that an increased understanding of toxicity will contribute to preventing toxic behaviour and making online communities on platforms like Twitch a safer place for all participants.
Contact Tamara Bodden: tbodden@sfu.ca