Popular Culture in Video Content on YouTube
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.204How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- popular culture; video content; youtube
- Abstract
Popular culture means that the media can produce a form of culture, then the public will absorb it and make it a form of culture. The author raises the issue of how popular culture is in video content produced by YouTube content creators in Indonesia. In this study, the author aims to find out how the role of popular culture in the creation of video content on YouTube. The author uses qualitative research methods with interview as data collection techniques. In this research, interviewed conducted with the content creator of Jakarta Uncensored YouTube channel. This channel creates many videos about the lifestyle and personal experiences of young people in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. These contents are deemed to be sensitive or taboo by the general public, such as sex life, pre-marital relationships, and other adult-related questions. Popular culture is part of an industry that is packaged in a certain concept so that it attracts the interest of many people. The findings show that the sex-life content created by the creator done to provide entertainment, education and knowledge to the public as users of YouTube social media. This research also disclosed the viewer perspective.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Isabelle Christine Joemono AU - Roswita Oktavianti PY - 2022 DA - 2022/04/21 TI - Popular Culture in Video Content on YouTube BT - Proceedings of the 3rd Tarumanagara International Conference on the Applications of Social Sciences and Humanities (TICASH 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1278 EP - 1282 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220404.204 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220404.204 ID - Joemono2022 ER -