In September of 2020, Dextero reported how popular Twitch streamer “Sweet Anita” collected the tales of multiple female streamers who found themselves facing “police inaction” at the hands of their stalkers (Glaze 2021). Anita notes how her stalker has gone as far as to move “within four minutes of where she lived” and “followed her to a shop and chased her out into the street, … [Read more...] about The Parasocial Relationships of Twitch
Author Profile: Paul Ippolito
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Graduate StudentBrooklyn CollegePaul Ippolito is currently a graduate student of Media Studies at Brooklyn College. In 2019, he graduated from Arcadia University with a bachelor’s degree in Digital Communications. Currently, he is an employee of the New York City Department of Education where he focuses on developing communications and technology for a public school. Beyond educational communications, he is also interested in emerging media relationships in video game and online streaming communities. He is an active member of several small online video game “speedrunning” communities.