Indonesian Queers as Content Creators on YouTube
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220304.005How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- LGBT; Youtube; Indonesia; Content Creator; Empowerment; Sexuality
- Abstract
Indonesia is not a very friendly place for LGBT, and yet social media like Youtube has created a space for them to be more visible as content creators. This article looks into queer vloggers’ content on Youtube and how they use the platform to make their gender and sexuality more visible. Social media has seen a transformation in the way people connect. Engaging with social media is now a staple activity of people in the 21st century. One of the unique characteristics that social media offers is its participatory nature which allows ordinary people (rather than mass media producers) to produce content, including LGBT. Youtube as one of the most popular social media seems to promote democracy and diversity due to its accessibility. However, in this article, I argue that social media has created a specific type of queers who are very urban, educated, and middle class. This is a shift from the conventional mass media where previously queers and LGBT were represented as part of the comedy and lower class. Although this change can be seen as progress in terms of representations, it is still leaving behind a broad spectrum of the reality of LGBT and their daily lives in Indonesia.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Suzie Handajani PY - 2022 DA - 2022/03/28 TI - Indonesian Queers as Content Creators on YouTube BT - Proceedings of the 2nd World Conference on Gender Studies (WCGS 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 35 EP - 41 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220304.005 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220304.005 ID - Handajani2022 ER -