The platform of spoof videos: The case of Tudou.com
This paper analyses the enabling and constraining role of platforms in the development of online video-spoofing culture in China. Using Tudou.com, one of China’s most popular video-sharing sites, as a case study, the paper discusses how video-sharing sites facilitate and curtail the self, and how th...
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| description | This paper analyses the enabling and constraining role of platforms in the development of online video-spoofing culture in China. Using Tudou.com, one of China’s most popular video-sharing sites, as a case study, the paper discusses how video-sharing sites facilitate and curtail the self, and how they negotiate and balance among users, clients and the state, teasing out the complex politics of platforms in China. Particular reference is made to three “star users”, Jiaoshou, Hu Ge and Corndog, who gained fame for themselves via the popularity of their spoof videos on this platform. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b240297df6e54dbbb4f4c44eda3dc2412025-02-10T13:26:38ZengSciendoCultural Science1836-04162012-07-015215316810.5334/csci.5151The platform of spoof videos: The case of Tudou.comLi Henry Siling0Centre for International Courses and Programs; China Executive Leadership Academy Pudong (CELAP)Shanghai, ChinaThis paper analyses the enabling and constraining role of platforms in the development of online video-spoofing culture in China. Using Tudou.com, one of China’s most popular video-sharing sites, as a case study, the paper discusses how video-sharing sites facilitate and curtail the self, and how they negotiate and balance among users, clients and the state, teasing out the complex politics of platforms in China. Particular reference is made to three “star users”, Jiaoshou, Hu Ge and Corndog, who gained fame for themselves via the popularity of their spoof videos on this platform.https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.51platformtudou.comselfcuratorcensormainstreaming |
| spellingShingle | Li Henry Siling The platform of spoof videos: The case of Tudou.com Cultural Science platform tudou.com self curator censor mainstreaming |
| title | The platform of spoof videos: The case of Tudou.com |
| title_full | The platform of spoof videos: The case of Tudou.com |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The platform of spoof videos: The case of Tudou.com |
| title_short | The platform of spoof videos: The case of Tudou.com |
| title_sort | platform of spoof videos the case of tudou com |
| topic | platform tudou.com self curator censor mainstreaming |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5334/csci.51 |
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