From Home to Stage: How Speedrunners Negotiate Performance, Relation to the Audience, and Spectacle in Live-Streaming Speedrun Marathons

Sacha Bernard; Fanny Barnabé

doi:10.1515/9783839471739-015

From Home to Stage: How Speedrunners Negotiate Performance, Relation to the Audience, and Spectacle in Live-Streaming Speedrun Marathons

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This paper explores how speedrunners conceive of performance, negotiate their relationship with the audience, and articulate competitive and mediation objectives within the framework of the spectacle of live-streaming speedrun marathons. Based on seventeen semi-structured interviews with practitioners performing various roles in the French charity event SpeeDons 2022 (speedrunners, commentators, entertainers, reviewers), this research will show how they must navigate between competing representations of the practice and contrasting systems of norms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Live Performance and Video Games
Subtitle of host publication	Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers
Editors	Réjane Dreifuss, Simon Hagemann, Izabella Pluta
Place of Publication	Bielefeld
Publisher	transcript Verlag
Pages	195-215
ISBN (Print)	9783839471739
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839471739-015
Publication status	Published - 2024

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Bernard, S., & Barnabé, F. (2024). From Home to Stage: How Speedrunners Negotiate Performance, Relation to the Audience, and Spectacle in Live-Streaming Speedrun Marathons. In R. Dreifuss, S. Hagemann, & I. Pluta (Eds.), Live Performance and Video Games: Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers (pp. 195-215). transcript Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839471739-015

Bernard, Sacha ; Barnabé, Fanny. / From Home to Stage : How Speedrunners Negotiate Performance, Relation to the Audience, and Spectacle in Live-Streaming Speedrun Marathons. Live Performance and Video Games: Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers. editor / Réjane Dreifuss ; Simon Hagemann ; Izabella Pluta. Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024. pp. 195-215

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Bernard, S & Barnabé, F 2024, From Home to Stage: How Speedrunners Negotiate Performance, Relation to the Audience, and Spectacle in Live-Streaming Speedrun Marathons. in R Dreifuss, S Hagemann & I Pluta (eds), Live Performance and Video Games: Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 195-215. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839471739-015

From Home to Stage: How Speedrunners Negotiate Performance, Relation to the Audience, and Spectacle in Live-Streaming Speedrun Marathons. / Bernard, Sacha; Barnabé, Fanny.
Live Performance and Video Games: Inspirations, Appropriations and Mutual Transfers. ed. / Réjane Dreifuss; Simon Hagemann; Izabella Pluta. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2024. p. 195-215.

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