情感新闻，情感劳动：澳大利亚微信公众号中国女性“小编”

IF 5.5 1区文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Social Media + Society Pub Date : 2023-07-01 DOI:10.1177/20563051231186343

Fan Yang

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在澳大利亚，微信公众号被称为中国移民制作和传播情感新闻或耸人听闻内容的中心。这篇文章旨在解决：谁/什么负责微信上这种形式的内容生产？在澳大利亚，那些为微信公众号重新制作新闻信息的人是谁？他们是如何以及为什么参与澳大利亚微信公众号的此类活动的？它们如何揭示我们的数字文化、经济和平台劳动力？为了回答这些问题，从2019年到2022年，我对管理层和员工层面的澳大利亚华裔媒体专业人士进行了27次半结构化采访，并对200多个澳大利亚微信公众号进行了纵向民族志观察，这些微信公号为散居海外的中国人翻译新闻故事。文章认为，在澳大利亚，微信情感新闻是向中国移民读者传递情感共鸣的新闻故事；它主要由从事情感劳动的中国女性小编辑制作。情感劳动，即中国女留学生或研究生的就业，导致了不稳定、剥削、，以及中国女性小编辑群体之间的异化，她们容易受到澳大利亚主导社会中的新自由主义和中国移民经济中根深蒂固的父权规范的双重排斥。研究结果揭示了基于种族、民族、性别和社会阶层的日益加剧的社会不平等，这种不平等已经被数字技术强加并进一步规范化。

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Affective News, Affective Labor: Chinese Female “Little Editors” of WeChat Official Accounts in Australia

In Australia, WeChat Official Accounts is known as a hub for the production and distribution of affective news, or sensationalized content, among Chinese migrants. This article aims to address: Who/What is responsible for this form of content production on WeChat? Who are the people (re)producing news information for WeChat Official Accounts in Australia? How and why do they engage with such activities for Australia-based WeChat Official Accounts? And how do they shed light on our digital culture, economy, and platform labor? To address the questions, from 2019 to 2022, I conducted 27 semi-structured interviews with Chinese-Australian media professionals at both managerial and staff levels as well as conducted a longitudinal ethnographic observation with more than 200 Australia-based WeChat Official Accounts that translate news stories for the Chinese diaspora. The article argues that in Australia affective news on WeChat is the news story that conveys emotional resonance to Chinese migrant readers; it is predominantly produced by Chinese female little editors who work as affective labor. The employment of affective labor, that is, Chinese female international students or postgraduates, has led to the concentration of precarity, exploitation, and alienation among the groups of Chinese female little editors who are vulnerably exposed to the double exclusion coming from both neoliberalism in Australia’s dominant society and patriarchal normativity embedded in the Chinese migrant economy. The research findings shed light on the intensifying social inequality based on one’s race, ethnicity, gender, and social class that has been imposed and further normalized by digital technologies.

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Social Media + Society COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

9.20

自引率

3.80%

发文量

111

审稿时长

12 weeks

期刊介绍： Social Media + Society is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on the socio-cultural, political, psychological, historical, economic, legal and policy dimensions of social media in societies past, contemporary and future. We publish interdisciplinary work that draws from the social sciences, humanities and computational social sciences, reaches out to the arts and natural sciences, and we endorse mixed methods and methodologies. The journal is open to a diversity of theoretic paradigms and methodologies. The editorial vision of Social Media + Society draws inspiration from research on social media to outline a field of study poised to reflexively grow as social technologies evolve. We foster the open access of sharing of research on the social properties of media, as they manifest themselves through the uses people make of networked platforms past and present, digital and non. The journal presents a collaborative, open, and shared space, dedicated exclusively to the study of social media and their implications for societies. It facilitates state-of-the-art research on cutting-edge trends and allows scholars to focus and track trends specific to this field of study.