A Multidimensional Perspective on Cross-gender Videos in TikTok: Performance Strategies, Content Production, and Social Impacts

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10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_194How to use a DOI?

Keywords

cross-gender performance; content production; CP culture; gender issues

Abstract

In recent years, cross-gender performances have realized a resurgence of popularity in short video platforms represented by TikTok, which has become a spectacle of gender performances in short video platforms. According to Butler's theory of gender manipulation to analyze the counter-performance, it can be found that the cross-gender actually serves as a kind of gender performance and identity shaping, which is a kind of alternative gender practice behavior. This paper explores the changing situation of cross-gender performance in short videos in terms of its content production influenced by the characteristics of the medium of short videos and the cultural dynamics of mass consumption represented by the CP culture. In addition, while providing a feast of audio-visual entertainment and breaking through the existing gender image, the cross-gender performance also presents the connotation of gender mobility and gender ambiguity, and provides us with new perspectives and ways to discuss and think about gender and social issues.

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AU  - Jinlei Xing
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/09/02
TI  - A Multidimensional Perspective on Cross-gender Videos in TikTok: Performance Strategies, Content Production, and Social Impacts
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 10th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1729
EP  - 1735
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_194
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-277-4_194
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