Youtube Update: Expanding to Warframe

Warframe 101

Some of you may be aware that I have recently expanded my Youtube content for more than just short form let’s plays. Here is the first of many planned Warframe videos I plan on releasing in the next few weeks. I took care with this video to summarize and condense the assault of information out there on starting this addicting F2P game. I hope to take the same approach in upcoming video essays and other tutorials for this kind of complex content.

Stay tuned for more tutorials and fun videos and catch my streams for more Warframe action.

Streaming Update: An Academic Streamer Perspective

It’s been several months of streaming on Twitch. I’ve hit just over 1000 views and 250 followers which is, quite frankly, not that many is the grand scheme of  Twitch progression but yet significant to me and my efforts thus far. I hope to take some time in this post to reflect critically on streaming on Twitch and the community of people I’ve met along the way.

Update for the update: I have officially migrated streams to a new account: twitch.tv/AlexandraLive

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I’ve started streaming on Twitch!

Twitch.tv is not only a popular site for the e-sports scene, but gaming communities in general. I have decided it will be useful (and fun!) to start streaming from my own Twitch channel to not only better understand the inner workings of the site, but also to place emphasis on gameplay itself in my work. Let’s be honest, I play games hours a day anyways, so I may as well stream it and talk to a screen in the process.

I hope to stream most weekday nights around 8:00pm. Games will include with single and multilayer games of varying genres and commentary provided will be of varying academic (or non-academic) nature.

You can find and subscribe to my channel at: http://www.twitch.tv/alexandralive

PCA 2015 in New Orleans

I am currently preparing for PCA 2015 in New Orleans and I hope to share my field notes from a variety of pop culture related presentations!

I also hope to meet lots of new scholars so please, if you stumble upon my site, please feel free to connect me with me after the conference.