Algorithm male, white and heteronormative
intersectionality in streamers showcased on Twitch´s home carousel
Abstract
The article has as objective to observe how the algorithm present on twitch's homepage, which defines streamers to highlight in a carousel format, perpetuate or not intersectional oppressions. For this, we initially conceptualize and contextualize the streaming of games, the dynamics of oppression in the game culture, and the Twitch platform to in a second moment ascertain this through an analysis of content produced from the one-month collection of data from the platform's homepage. The result showed that the dynamics of oppression (male hegemony, heteronormativity, gender and race violence, meritocracy, and toxic culture) are reproduced by the algorithm in the choice of streamers, which prioritizes disseminating male, white and heterosexual streamers.
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