The Economist ( 2017) has dubbed this market China’s ‘live streaming industry’. The value of this market is expected to triple by 2020, potentially surpassing cinema box office receipts ( Reuters, 2017). According to Reuters (2017), in 2016, more than 150 streaming apps catered for a market worth in excess of 30 billion Chinese yuan (US$4.3 billion). Mobile live streaming has become a familiar practice in China.
Second, it emphasizes that whereas users created data freely, now it is produced by paid labor.
First, it shows how these apps now function as business platforms on top of being channels for hooking up. This analysis of live streamers and their viewers extends understandings of dating apps in two ways. It argues that these sexually affective data flows increasingly constitute key corporate assets with which Blued attracts venture capital. 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. Based on Internet ethnographic research that lasted 2 years, this article focuses on sexual-affective data flows (e.g. Through the continuous imbrication of old and new functionalities and related affordances, users are transformed from dating subjects into performative laborers. Having launched in 2012 as a location-based dating app akin to Grindr, Blued has now become a multipurpose platform providing extra services such as newsfeeds and live streaming. All rights reserved.This article analyzes the political economy of sexually affective data on the Chinese gay dating platform Blued. ™ & © 2022 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. CNN Business’ David Goldman contributed to this report But Sonnenfeld says the silence is deafening. It’s not clear if companies’ lack of action on the latest mass shooting is a result of complacency, fear or some other reason. This year, Florida eliminated a tax break for Disney after CEO Bob Chapek, under pressure from employees, denounced the state’s so-called Don’t Say Gay law. But Georgia Republicans rescinded a similar tax break in 2018 after Delta cut ties with the National Rifle Association. Lawmakers ultimately let Delta keep its tax break. Georgia’s Republican-controlled House in April 2021 voted to revoke a major tax break for Delta Air Lines as punishment for its CEO’s public criticism of the state’s controversial law that restricts ballot access. Yet, recently, some Republican politicians have taken action against companies that have spoken out about controversial new laws. The Business Roundtable in 2019 said corporations are no longer beholden exclusively to shareholders, and companies have a responsibility to improve society by serving all stakeholders - including customers and employees - ethically, morally and fairly. Many companies have recently taken stands on hot-button concerns, including abortion rights, unconscious bias in the workplace, gender equality, LGBT+ issues, voting rights and the preservation of democracy. Neither the US Chamber of Commerce nor the Business Roundtable, the two leading business trade groups, have issued statements since Tuesday’s shooting.Ĭorporate America has faced growing pressure from their employees and shareholders to act socially responsible.
“As before, where are the united clergy, the trade union leaders, the pension funds, the institutional investors, the professional associations and the campuses (who did speak out so well post-Parkland)?” Sonnenfeld said, referring to the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Sonnenfeld, whose list of companies cutting ties with Russia pressured other brands to do the same, noted that many leaders have shied away from making statements following Tuesday’s shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. “This voice is a start but still not the loud chorus of CEOs and other leaders needed,” the Yale professor told CNN in an email on Friday.