The Emotional Labor in the Interaction of Mobile Game Live Streaming on Douyin

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10.2991/assehr.k.211011.019How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Douyin, mobile game live streaming, emotional labor, social interaction

Abstract

The live streaming function of Douyin, a social application, has occupied a great deal of time in the lives of many young Chinese people. Based on the theory of the magic circle, remediation, narratology and fan economy, this research finds that there is emotional labor in the interaction between live streamers and audiences in the live streaming of mobile games on Douyin. Moreover, it demonstrates that emotional labor has also constructed a new social relationship in different social circles. One is the teammate relationship in the social circle between the audience and the live streamer, and the other is the fans’ class-based relationship in the social circle of audiences.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - XiaoHan Yang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/12
TI  - The Emotional Labor in the Interaction of Mobile Game Live Streaming on Douyin
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 6th International Conference on Modern Management and Education Technology（MMET 2021）
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 98
EP  - 106
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211011.019
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211011.019
ID  - Yang2021
ER  -