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Feb 7, 2022 Live streaming is hugely popular on the Chinese web, including on gay dating apps. What is it like to live stream on Blued?

Apr 7, 2023 Since emotional intimacy is rare in male relationships (Jourard, 1971), and such intimacy can encounter more obstacles in rural Chinese areas, digital intimacy developed through gay live streaming can fill this void. However, as we will later demonstrate, the promises of live streaming as a refuge from heteronormative values and self-closedness ...

Sep 16, 2019 Through paid virtual gifts, which circulate as affective signs, live streaming fosters and intensifies viewers intimate attachment to gay streamers. The virtual intimacy produced by gay live streaming entails a significant economic dimension, and is therefore stigmatized.

Aug 18, 2019 In January 2016, Chinas largest gay dating app Blued incorporated a live streaming feature into its platform . In trying to solicit virtual gifts from viewers, gay live streamers answer questions, offer advice, sing, dance, and perform in drag for their male viewers.

Mar 4, 2022 This paper investigates Chinese gay mens consumption of domestic pornography on international social network platforms following the countrys anti-porn campaigns targeting live streaming.

serve the everyday cultural production of rural gay men through live streaming on Blued, Chinas most popular gay dating app. Our research findings reveal how the optimistic virtual entertainment streaming world is reinforcing cruel offline hege-monic and heteronormative rural social realities. Live streaming serves as an object

Aug 18, 2019 This article examines Blued, Chinas largest gay dating app, aiming to unfold the data structure and algorithms that navigate the use of its two prime functionalities: browsing and live...

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Based on Internet ethnographic research that lasted 2 years, this article focuses on sexual-affective data flows (e.g. virtual gifting, following, liking, commenting, and sharing) produced by gay live streamers within the parameters of same-sex desires such as infatuation, sexual arousal, and online intimacy.

DOI: 10.1177/1363460719872724. journals.sagepub.com/home/sex. Abstract. Drawing on interviews with 10 gay streamers and 30 viewers, this article analyzes a new feature of live streaming on Blued, a Chinese gay male dating app. Live streaming invites users to either perform themselves or watch others perform.

Sep 6, 2017 Episode one of the Bloomberg video series Love Disrupted explores how the social networking app Blued is changing the way gay men live their lives in China. (Video by Vicky Feng, Robin Fall ...

Sep 16, 2019 Drawing on interviews with 10 gay streamers and 30 viewers, this article analyzes a new feature of live streaming on Blued, a Chinese gay male dating app. Live streaming invites users...

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Mar 4, 2022 This paper investigates Chinese gay mens consumption of domestic pornography on international social network platforms following the countrys anti-porn campaigns targeting live streaming. Set aga...

The results show that immediate interaction anxiety, verbal intimacy, and virtual physical intimacy positively influence users shift to purchasing expensive virtual gifts, and that perceived network size and perceived financial risk are negative factors in users shift to buying expensivevirtual gifts. Expand. 1.

Through paid virtual gifts, which circulate as affective signs, live streaming fosters and intensifies viewers intimate attachment to gay streamers. The virtual intimacy produced by...

Aug 18, 2019 The Economist has dubbed this market Chinas live streaming industry. In January 2016, Chinas largest gay dating app Blued incorporated a live streaming feature into its platform (Figure 1). In trying to solicit virtual gifts from viewers, gay live streamers answer questions, offer advice, sing, dance, and perform in drag for their ...

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May 20, 2021 Unlike viewers of e-commerce-focused live streaming whose primary motivations are linked to the products advertised, viewers of pan-entertainment live streaming shows purchase virtual gifts to ...

Through camgirls narratives, the intersection of camgirl aspirations and desperation within the context of heterosexual relationships and the dark side of Digital China is explored. ABSTRACT The Chinese live-streaming industry is attracting an increasing number of young Chinese women into a new form of entertainment work, as camgirls. Despite the generally poor salary, these women ...

Sep 30, 2021 This paper examines a nascent network of commercial DIY gay porn production by microcelebrities in China against the background of platformization, commodification, and illiberal cultural landscapes. Informed by queer Marxist theories, the paper looks at how the career trajectories of live-streamer-turned DIY gay porn actors/producers are ...

Chinas live-streaming industry has become a commodity frontier (Hochschild, 2004), which combines market forces, new media technologies, intimate labour and the private self to shape the

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