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Zhang, Xinwen
McNeal, Robin
Campana, Andrew
2020-08-10T20:08:01Z
2020-08-10T20:08:01Z
2020-05
ProQuest Submission ID: 10865
ProQuest Publication ID: 27962520
https://hdl.handle.net/1813/70319
https://doi.org/10.7298/sms6-bk26
13254435
68 pages
On the new media platforms in China, especially the video platforms, some rural content has become quite influential, which is, to some extent, inconsistent with people's impression of the vulnerable position of rural areas the urban-rural inequality. This thesis studied some of the most popular the rural content producers with the close reading of their videos, explaining how they frame themselves and their artworks and what kind of "rurality" is performed to the audiences. While the audience might assign them as rural figures, these people were on the edge of the urban and the rural as they had a shared history as some people who were from the rural areas, spent a period of their lives as migrant workers, and finally became video influencers performing some kind of rural lifestyle.
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influencer
migrant worker
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rural-urabn relationship
urbanization
The rural video influencers in China: on the new edge of urbanization
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M.A., Asian Studies
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Zhang, Xinwen
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