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麻豆视频 the colloquium

During her talk Online Toxicity on Twitch, Tamara Bodden gives an overview of her postdoctoral project within the Discourse Processing Lab. In this talk, she discusses the transcription of multimodal data on Twitch, the targets and topics of toxicity in live streams, and the challenges of automated toxicity detection.

Content warning: Examples of toxic speech will be reproduced. 

麻豆视频 the speaker

Visiting postdoctoral fellow , who recently became an assistant professor at the University of Koblenz in Germany, conducts research to analyze online toxicity on the streaming platform Twitch. She studies gaming discourse to investigate the positive, community-building functions of seemingly toxic linguistic behaviour.

鈥淲hen people walk by my office it sometimes will seem like I am just watching entertaining streams all day. 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.鈥�

The goal of Tamara's research includes shaping 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. She also hopes that an increased understanding of toxicity will contribute to preventing toxic behaviour and improving safety features for online communities on platforms such as Twitch.