Nüzhubo and Her “Brothers”
Streaming Life and Mediating Intimacy at Scale
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22009657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jingyi Gu (0000-0002-0613-1146, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2162-3317 • E-ISSN: 2162-3317 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.11928 |
| OpenAlex | W3199014658 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
In this paper, I consider live/life streaming as a mediated venue for making social relationships and a mediatized world constituted of diverse livelihoods. Drawing from my digital ethnography on two Chinese live streaming platforms Inke and Huajiao, I document the emergence of narratives, performances, and interactions that are either sexually suggestive or have gendered implications. I identify patterns of emotional expression and self-disclosure that lie within these interactions and analyze their alignment with and distinction from those that have been considered within the existing theorization of intimacy. In doing so, I examine how live/life streaming constructs scalable “mediated intimacy,” in the one-versus-many semi-public setting, through nurturing gendered performances and building subtle sexual tension between its participants
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnography · Live Streaming · Livelihood · Multimedia · Narrative · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · History · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |