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Embodying Difference on YouTube: Asian American Identity Work in “Shit Asian Dads Say”

Embodying Difference on YouTube: Asian American Identity Work in “Shit Asian Dads Say”

Helen K. Ho
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781522502128|ISBN10: 1522502122|EISBN13: 9781522502135
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0212-8.ch001
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Ho, Helen K. "Embodying Difference on YouTube: Asian American Identity Work in “Shit Asian Dads Say”." Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age, edited by Alison Novak and Imaani Jamillah El-Burki, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0212-8.ch001

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Ho, H. K. (2016). Embodying Difference on YouTube: Asian American Identity Work in “Shit Asian Dads Say”. In A. Novak & I. El-Burki (Eds.), Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age (pp. 1-14). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0212-8.ch001

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Ho, Helen K. "Embodying Difference on YouTube: Asian American Identity Work in “Shit Asian Dads Say”." In Defining Identity and the Changing Scope of Culture in the Digital Age, edited by Alison Novak and Imaani Jamillah El-Burki, 1-14. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0212-8.ch001

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Abstract

This chapter analyzes the content and responses of a popular video, “Shit Asian Dads Say,” produced by YouTube production company JustKiddingFilms. In analyzing video content in conjunction with themes emerging from comments left in response to the video, the chapter discusses the ways in which comedic/satirical, citizen-produced content on YouTube helps to shape, construct, and reflect the boundaries of group membership. As the video hinges on second-generation performances of immigrant parenthood, its content provides a prime site to investigate how age, gender and race are performed and become contested or reified in digital space. An analysis of the YouTube videos grounded in the responses, commentary and discussion that accompany the videos in the user comments, ultimately empowers viewers' interpretations of digital creative expression.

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