Information Behavior on Social Live Streaming Services

• DOI: 10.1633/jistap.2016.4.2.1
• Publication Date: 2016-07-05T05:01:06Z
• Authors: Katrin Scheibe; Kaja J. Fietkiewicz; Wolfgang G. Stock
• Keywords: Live Streaming; Empirical Research

In the last few years, a new type of synchronous social networking services (SNSs) has emerged—social live streaming (SLSSs). Studying SLSSs is and exciting research field in information science. What behaviors do users platforms exhibit? our empirical study we analyzed production behavior (i.e., broadcasting) as well reception (watching streams commenting on them). We conducted two quantitative investigations, namely an online survey with YouNow (N = 123) observations 434). service video mostly made by adolescents for adolescents. like to watch streams, chat while watching, reward performers using emoticons. While broadcasting, there no anonymity (as nearly all other WWW services). Synchronous SNSs remind us film The Truman Show, anyone chance consciously broadcast his or her own life real-time.