How to study Twitch.tv with Digital Methods?
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A hack lunch with Johan Irving Søltoft! Can emojis be seen as a kind of strange text? Twitch, the livestreaming platform, has a fast-paced chat due to its many viewers. Therefore, it’s both hard to have a conversation on the platform and the words used are generally quite short - not so interesting in regards to semantic analysis. Another way of researching this communication could be a focus on emojis, as the use of emojis is often stream/community-situated. What will mapping a co-occuring emoji network on Gephi reveal?