Linguistic analysis of the usage of emotes in Twitch Chat

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Communications - Multimedia, Internet, New Technologies, grade: 1.7, University of Bonn (IAAK), language: English, abstract: This paper aims to provide clarity and a sense of understanding of the usage of emotes in chats on the platform Twitch.tv. It can be assumed that emotes are used to either build on the meaning of the message, in terms of provid...