Project One Essay

For the first project I will be writing about how online streamers are authors, and explain why I believe that its authorship.  I may also try to focus onto some YouTube channels, but this will be on people who stream or create video content for video games.  A difficulty that I am running into is finding sources that talk about these subjects, as most gamers don't talk about their streaming and the things they do, and if they do then its usually in videos, which I will need to learn how to cite properly.  I want to show how the streaming platforms and things like YouTube create an environment that lets people become authors by playing games and creating commentary for this.  The commentary is usually about the game play, just joking around, or even professionals who stream daily.  I play video games on a regular basis and will be focusing on the people who create content for games that I play, since I already know a lot of what I will write about since I have already thought about these things in the past.  I need to also come up with points that I will need to prove which I still haven't thought about yet, to prove that what these people create daily is indeed authorship.  I don't believe that I will run short on the word count, since I believe there are a lot of good points to be made about this topic, since it is very unique and has only started a few years ago, but is growing very rapidly.