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Vlogging White Privilege Abroad: Eat Your Kimchi's Eating and Spitting Out of the Korean Other on YouTube.
- Source :
- Communication, Culture & Critique; Dec2017, Vol. 10 Issue 4, p696-711, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- Over several years, the YouTube channel Eat Your Kimchi, a White expatriate video log about South Korea, generated a sizeable audience. In the videos, Martina and Simon Stawski draw upon discourses that empower their identities as a privileged group of cultural outsiders-valued and othered for their White difference. To benefit from their global advantage, they essentialize differences between the West/themselves and Korea/ns in order to emphasize White and Western superiority. As a consequence, they reject hybridity by both mocking Korea/ns as an exotic other and by consuming it as an exotic delight. Their strategies reflect colonial-era discourses seen in the travel logs of White 'adventurers' that are transformed to the current social, global, and technological conjuncture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- VIDEO blogs
STREAMING video & television
GLOBALIZATION
SOCIAL media
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17539129
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Communication, Culture & Critique
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 126244587
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/cccr.12180