You Tube, We Comment:我是歌手和华语社群的地缘政治相遇

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ASIANetwork Exchange-A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts Pub Date : 2022-07-02 DOI:10.16995/ane.8146

Shaohua Guo

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这篇文章考察了YouTube上华语社区对一档顶级真人秀《我是歌手》的接受情况。现有对YouTube的研究主要集中在参与式文化的蓬勃发展、微名人的兴起和粉丝劳动等方面。然而，迄今为止，很少有人关注YouTube如何成为一个消费中文视听内容的优质平台。通过仔细阅读YouTube上的用户评论，我分析了持不同政治立场的华语互联网用户捍卫各自立场的方式。虽然观点的交换很少促进政治观点的改变，但这一进程却促进了有关历史遗产及其与当代社会的相关性问题的富有成效的对话。因此，评论区不仅催化了公众对广泛的社会问题的思考，而且还体现了流行文化在激发超越地理界限的地缘政治想象力方面所起的作用。

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You Tube, We Comment: I Am a Singer and Geopolitical Encounters of Sinophone Communities

This essay examines the reception of a top-rated reality show I Am a Singer among Sinophone communities on YouTube. Existing studies of YouTube focus on the burgeoning of participatory culture, the rise of microcelebrities, and fan labor. However, to date, little critical attention has been devoted to how YouTube constitutes a premium platform for the consumption of Chinese-language audiovisual content. Engaging in a close reading of user comments on YouTube, I analyze the ways in which Sinophone Internet users of divergent political stances defend their respective positions. While the exchange of viewpoints rarely fosters a change in political views, this process has nevertheless catalyzed productive conversations pertaining to issues about historical legacies and their relevance to contemporary society. The comment section thereby not only catalyzes public deliberation on a wide range of societal issues, but also exemplifies the role that popular culture plays in inspiring geopolitical imaginations beyond geographical boundaries.

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