与数字打交道：职业摔跤新的产业版图

IF 0.5 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

AMERICAN QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-09-01 DOI:10.1353/aq.2023.a905865

Dewitt King

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摘要：本文考察了职业摔跤行业的工业和劳工实践。通过分析WWE网络作为一个“工业颠覆者”，本文表明，这种颠覆不仅改变了谁被认为是典型的摔跤手；它也改变了行业内部的权力关系。虽然流媒体服务的部署增加了WWE在美国境外的影响力，但它无意中为当地、地区和国际摔跤公司创造了一条途径，让它们也能利用流媒体服务技术共同努力，减轻WWE的一些工业霸权。此外，WWE创建“数字摔跤领地”的尝试改变了当地和全球之间的关系，重新制定了数字全球亲密产业关系。尽管WWE是一家保持主导地位近四十年的全球性公司，但流媒体服务的部署永远改变了职业摔跤的业务。

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Grappling with the Digital: The New Industrial Geographies of Professional Wrestling

Abstract:This essay examines industrial and labor practices in the pro wrestling industry. By analyzing the WWE Network as an "industrial disruptor," this essay suggests that this disruption shifted not only who was considered the prototypical wrestler; it also changed the relations of power within the industry. While the deployment of the streaming service increased the reach of the WWE beyond the national borders of the US, it inadvertently created a pathway for local, regional, and international wrestling companies to also utilize streaming service technology to collectively work together to mitigate some of the industrial hegemony of the WWE. Moreover, the WWE's attempt to create "digital wrestling territories" has changed the relationship between the local and the global, which has reformulated digital global intimate industrial relations. Although the WWE is a global company that has retained dominance for almost forty years, the deployment of streaming services has forever changed the business of pro wrestling.

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AMERICAN QUARTERLY HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： American Quarterly represents innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that engages with key issues in American Studies. The journal publishes essays that examine American societies and cultures, past and present, in global and local contexts. This includes work that contributes to our understanding of the United States in its diversity, its relations with its hemispheric neighbors, and its impact on world politics and culture. Through the publication of reviews of books, exhibitions, and diverse media, the journal seeks to make available the broad range of emergent approaches to American Studies.