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Abstract

Online toxicity is a current problem on social platforms that can be met among other approaches by content management, community guidelines and automated text recognition. The streaming platform Twitch is one of the most widely used social networks in the world with an average of over 2.27 million concurrent viewers but poses particular challenges for toxicity prevention due to the mix of different modalities (video and chat) and the live broadcasting of content. My research project aims to investigate toxicity on different stream levels (game, livestream and chat) in a multimodal and corpus-based approach. The goal is not only to close a gap in current toxicity research, which is often focused on online comments and quantitative approaches but also to contribute to the development of suitable methodologies for live streams as objects for linguistic research. 

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Dr. Tamara Bodden is a postdoctoral fellow at the Discourse Processing Lab. She finished her PhD (2022) in German Linguistics on the discourse about public funding of art institutions. Bodden's research focusses on discourse linguistics, intertextuality, game studies, media studies, art communications and gender in AI. Bodden recently accepted a faculty position at the University of Koblenz. 

Dr. Maite Taboada, Director of the Discourse Processing Lab, is excited to have Bodden as part of the research team: 鈥淒r. Bodden鈥檚 is an innovative idea, with the potential for important applications in digital media studies and content moderation, currently one of the most important topics in internet discourse. Dr. Bodden鈥檚 expertise in digital communication is an asset to my lab, where trainees benefit from her international perspective and her background in cultural studies.鈥�