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“Just watching”: A qualitative analysis of non-players’ motivations for video game spectatorship

Overview of attention for article published in New Media & Society, February 2021
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (92nd percentile)

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82 X users

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Title
“Just watching”: A qualitative analysis of non-players’ motivations for video game spectatorship
Published in
New Media & Society, February 2021
DOI 10.1177/1461444821989350
Authors

Stephanie Orme

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 86 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 7 8%
Student > Bachelor 7 8%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 7%
Other 5 6%
Other 14 16%
Unknown 41 48%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Business, Management and Accounting 13 15%
Social Sciences 13 15%
Psychology 7 8%
Arts and Humanities 5 6%
Computer Science 2 2%
Other 3 3%
Unknown 43 50%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 March 2024.
All research outputs
#681,073
of 25,728,855 outputs
Outputs from New Media & Society
#192
of 2,324 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#20,245
of 542,121 outputs
Outputs of similar age from New Media & Society
#4
of 52 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,728,855 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,324 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 23.3. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 91% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 52 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its contemporaries.