CDCS Colloquium: Jingyi Gu
- Annenberg School, Room 300
"Gendered Labor and Scalable Intimacy in Live Streaming"
About the Talk
This talk draws on the narratives and practices of live streaming to understand how it becomes a form of cultural and economic production in which gender and sexuality become central to digitally-mediated and scale-making communications. It also discusses the intersecting politics of technology, labor, and gender that live streaming’s prevalence in contemporary China and its global expansion informs us about.
About the Speaker
Jingyi Gu is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center on Digital Culture and Society. Gu studies issues of identity, relationship, governance, and resistance within digital cultures and platform economies in Chinese and global contexts. With feminist and transnational lenses, her current research centers on the (re)configuration of affect, labor, and subjectivities in platform-mediated cultural production.
Gu completed her Ph.D. at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Institute of Communications Research. Her research has been published in Asiascape: Digital Asia and presented at the annual conferences of the International Communication Association, Association of Internet Researchers, and Society for Social Studies of Science, among others.
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