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Game Streaming: Implications for Streamers and Game Creators

"Since the 2010s, the live streaming—live online video broadcast—of digital gaming has emerged as a significant Internet phenomenon. Millions of people stream their digital gaming for leisure, profit, or some combination, in the process often accumulating large communities of fans and followers..." – By Mark Johnson

Funk “Proibido” Music and Communication of Criminal Commands in Brazil

"Brazil holds one of the highest mortality rates by firearms. Criminal commands operate on the outskirts of Brazilian cities, emerging as instances of sociability and parallel power, becoming a reference in values supporting community..." – By Luciana Fernández Moretti

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