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Tag: YouTube

Posted on April 2, 2020April 2, 2020

Hanging Out At Home As A Lifestyle (in the time of COVID-19)

As city-wide lockdowns and home-isolations kicked in across various countries in the past few months, more and more people took to social media to muse, gripe, reflect on the new…

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Posted on January 9, 2020January 9, 2020

Minahs and Minority Celebrity.

I have been working on this article since 2016 and it is finally ready to meet the world in Celebrity Studies. It studies YouTube parody Influencers as feminist and anti-racist…

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Posted on October 8, 2019October 21, 2019

Yes Homo: Gay Influencers, Homonormativity, and Queerbaiting on YouTube

I have a new journal article published based on my AoIR2018 talk, and with thanks to Jude Elund for shepherding this half Special Issue. Abidin, Crystal. 2019. “Yes Homo: Gay…

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Posted on August 5, 2019

A Reading List on Parody & Satire, Social Media, and Political Commentary

Last week in Singapore, a government-initiated campaign featured a Chinese actor wearing brownface to portray a Malay woman and an Indian man. The ad was called out by various citizens…

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Posted on August 1, 2019August 5, 2019

E-Pay brownface ad, and Preetipls & Subhasmusic’s rap video

In this post, I archive screen grabs of the source materials in relation to ‘Minority influencers, Satire, and Subversive frivolity’ for teaching purposes. * This is the offending  brown face…

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Posted on July 31, 2019August 5, 2019

Minority influencers, Satire, and Subversive frivolity

On 26 July 2019, a state-owned broadcaster in Singapore published an advertisement featuring a local Chinese actor who had his face painted in a much darker skin tone (i.e. brownface)…

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Posted on April 11, 2019June 23, 2020

K-pop social media, (Anti-)fan labour, and Networks of (mis)information

I am an anthropologist of young people’s internet cultures and have spent the past 13 months learning (from scratch!) about K-pop fan practices on social media through intensive reading of…

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Posted on May 2, 2017May 2, 2017

When exploiting kids for cash goes wrong on YouTube: the lessons of DaddyOFive

In light of the recent DaddyOFive controversy, Tama Leaver and I have a new commentary out on The Conversation, reproduced below. In this piece, we call for greater transparency in labour laws…

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