The rural video influencers in China: on the new edge of urbanization

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A., Asian Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Master of Arts

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Asian Studies

Grantor

Cornell University

Year dc:date.issued

2020

Author dc:creator

• Zhang, Xinwen

Committee member dc:contributor.committeemember

• Campana, Andrew

• influencer
• migrant worker
• nongmingong
• rural-urabn relationship
• urbanization

Statement dc:rights

• Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Licence dc:rights.uri

• https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7298/sms6-bk26

Dc Identifier Other

ProQuest Submission ID: 10865
ProQuest Publication ID: 27962520

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.cornell.edu:1813/70319