{"id":5742,"date":"2025-04-27T23:51:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T15:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2025-04-28T00:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T16:19:49","slug":"the-objectification-of-women-on-twitch-how-streaming-culture-can-reinforce-gender-stereotypes-towards-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/fan-culture\/5742\/the-objectification-of-women-on-twitch-how-streaming-culture-can-reinforce-gender-stereotypes-towards-women\/","title":{"rendered":"The objectification of women on Twitch: How streaming culture can reinforce gender stereotypes towards women"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nStreaming culture is cultivated by numerous members of various online communities formed by similar interests, most common being gaming as gaming and streaming are closely connected. Streamers are able to create a personal space to connect with those who share common interests online. Twitch, a popular online streaming platform which is focused on the gaming community, act as a host to help construct these personal spaces for streamers and viewers. The gaming community is primarily male-dominated <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/fan-culture\/5742\/the-objectification-of-women-on-twitch-how-streaming-culture-can-reinforce-gender-stereotypes-towards-women\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract Streaming culture is cultivated by numerous members of various online communities formed by similar interests, most common being gaming as gaming and streaming are closely connected. Streamers are able to create a personal space to connect with those who share common interests online. Twitch, a popular online streaming platform which is focused on the gaming community, act as a host to help construct these personal spaces for streamers and viewers. The gaming community is primarily male-dominated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1298,1651,1433,1476,1336,1310,1582,1602],"class_list":["post-5742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fan-culture","tag-community","tag-discrimination","tag-feminism","tag-gaming","tag-gender","tag-social-media","tag-twitch","tag-women-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5783,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions\/5783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2026-S1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}