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The Disclosure, Disconnect, and Digital Sexploitation of Tween Girls' Aspirational YouTube Videos
- Journal of Black Sexuality and Relationships
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2018
- pp. 91-132
- 10.1353/bsr.2018.0017
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abstract:
Does YouTube normalize the unintended sexploitation of tween Black girls' musical play in user-generated content (UGC)? A review of girlhood studies, online sexploitation, social media, and intersectionality contributes to a case study of over 600 YouTube twerking videos uploaded over a six-year period (2008–2014). Utilizing Critical Technocultural Discourse Analysis (CTDA), three main findings point to the normalization of online sexploitation relative to Black girls' user-generated content: 1) the disclosure of personal-identifying information; 2) disconnects between culture and age-restricted guidelines; and 3) the monetization of music in UGC.