Loneliness Behind Live Streaming: Exploration of Alone Together in Live streaming in the Version of Interactive Ritual Chain

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220504.254How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Live Streaming; Alone Together; Interactive Ritual Chain

Abstract

Nowadays live streaming has become a popular internet entertainment which occupies people a lot of time. However, under the surface, are people truly take a good time while watching live streaming or it’s just a waste of time? In this paper, two well-known theory “Alone Together” and “Interactive Ritual Chain” are mentioned and connected to explain if people are in a kind of group loneliness while watching live streaming and why it is happening through interactive ritual chain. In-depth interview is taken as the research method which four interviewees gave their answer on questions related to such problems. The paper finds out that it is easy to fall into group loneliness but it is also possible for people to get rid of it. With the expansion interactive ritual chain, online socializing has partially replaced offline socializing and people may be able to meet their emotional need through online socializing. Finally, two questions are arisen about the “Alone Together” due to the finding of the research, and this article hopes it can give some inspirations on relevant problems.

Copyright

© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Yifan Wu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Loneliness Behind Live Streaming: Exploration of Alone Together in Live streaming in the Version of Interactive Ritual Chain
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1403
EP  - 1408
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.254
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.254
ID  - Wu2022
ER  -