Özet:

The spread of the use of the Internet and the change in which new communication technologies have lived in themselves have increased the time spent in the virtual environments, and have caused differences in the definitions of time, space and speed. Specifically, speed holds an important place in the understanding of today’s world. One of the most important factors in the spread and popularity of the use of new media tools is that the interactive environment is dominant in the digital world. The one-sided communication place has been interacted, and users have passed from a passive state to an active state. This event also made the publishing activities diversify, video games have become one of the categories most affected by this change. The Twitch platform is a platform that tells more than the name by allowing video gamers to watch. The interactive structure ensures that the present publication needs are directly met. From here, the work has been conducted to study the motivation to watch the players within the changing audience practices of the people who play the game through the Twitch platform; the determined age groups have been applied the Twitch Motivation Tracking Scale. According to the survey, the participants followed the publications with motivations such as gathering data about the game strategies, getting knowledge of the newly launched games and deciding to start a new game.

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