{"id":252,"date":"2022-04-23T20:19:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-23T12:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/?p=252"},"modified":"2022-04-25T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T03:08:51","slug":"vtubers-the-appeal-of-creating-a-public-virtual-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/ioa\/252\/vtubers-the-appeal-of-creating-a-public-virtual-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"VTubers: The Appeal of Creating a Public Virtual Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nVirtual livestreamers \u2013 also known as VTubers \u2013 are a recent hot topic among the livestreaming community. VTubers as a whole provide a wide range of topics for discussion, especially in relation to identity performance. Identity, as a concept is a notably fluid process, and as Jones and Krzyzanowski (2008) state, it can be \u201c(re)constructed and (re)interpreted by actors in a multiplicity of ways\u201d (p. 43). In this paper, I will be discussing the appeals of VTubers in relation to their <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/ioa\/252\/vtubers-the-appeal-of-creating-a-public-virtual-identity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual livestreamers \u2013 also known as VTubers \u2013 are a recent hot topic among the livestreaming community. VTubers as a whole provide a wide range of topics for discussion, especially<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/ioa\/252\/vtubers-the-appeal-of-creating-a-public-virtual-identity\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","crio-premium-page-header-override":null,"crio-premium-page-header-select":"none","crio-premium-page-header-background":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27,31,45,46,44],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ioa","tag-identity","tag-privacy","tag-livestreaming","tag-virtual-livestreamers","tag-vtubers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}