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SUMMARY:(P49) Queer Web Series in South East Asia
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DESCRIPTION:The web series format is increasingly recognised for the new op
 portunities it offers creative workers to produce niche content long neglec
 ted by traditional or legacy broadcasters. Web series - scripted or non-scr
 ipted video in episodic format accessible via the internet - share certain 
 characteristics with television series and can range over various genres in
 cluding\nsketch, drama, comedy and vlog. However, academic studies have hig
 hlighted a number of differences in terms of production techniques, subject
  matter and particular structuring, whereby it is not enough to simply char
 acterise web series as television watched online on a computer. These devel
 opments have opened up spaces for marginalised and niche groups\nto create,
  produce and consume content traditionally excluded from legacy networks. W
 hile this exclusion is characteristic of traditional television in many par
 ts of the world, exclusion is often specifically accentuated in South East 
 Asian due to strict regimes of censorship and government regulation, which 
 has particular impact on the queer creatives and audiences.\nThe recent nom
 ination of the Singaporean series People Like Us for an International Emmy,
  and the large audiences for the 2012 Vietnamese series My best gay friends
 , and the strong following for the Indonesian series Conq are just three ex
 amples of the range of queer web series being produced in South East Asia.\
 n\nThe academic study of web series from South East Asia is still in its in
 fancy, despite the large audiences series can attract and the cultural and 
 commercial potential offered by the format. Studies of queer series from th
 e region are even fewer, though the burgeoning queer content being produced
  across the region is evidence of the value of the format for creatives mar
 ginalised or excluded by legacy TV. This panel invites papers which address
  the variety of queer web-series now being produced in South East Asia. We 
 are particularly interested in papers that address queer representation in 
 all kind of web series (for example; web series that engage with health and
  well-being (HIV, Covid-19, Mental Health, Sexual Health, boy love series, 
 coming out narratives and youth dramas with a strong if not exclusive focus
  on queer characters). We are also interested in papers focused on industry
 , production, sponsorship and screening platforms and how these provide spa
 ce for queer content. Studies which take an audience studies or fandom appr
 oach will also be welcomed. We are particularly interested in papers that t
 ake a region wide approach, or which focus on web series from Vietnam, Laos
 , Cambodia or the Philippines.
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/queer-web-series-in-south-east-asia
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