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Translating YouTube vlogs for a global audience: Innovative subtitling and community-building by Seryun Lee is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Translating YouTube vlogs for a global audience: Innovative subtitling and community-building about?
Increasingly, YouTubers are translating their self-produced videos in order to reach out to a global viewership. Those YouTubers' translations often incorporate innovative practices that prioritise displaying affinity with their audience. Non-representational subtitling is one such translation apparatus. It does not seek to reproduce speech in another language accurately but contains additional information that is not otherwise included in the content. I examine non-representational subtitles deployed in culture-brokering YouTube vlogs, as well as viewers' reactions to those subtitles. The key argument of this article is that non-representational subtitling can be utilised as a means both of expressing YouTubers' voices outside of filmed space during the translating process and of manipulating ways to address viewers' different language constituencies. I also argue that translation-driven communities are interactive transnational networks in which viewers develop a sense of community by amplifying translation-mediated information, suggesting alternative translations, and expressing their feelings.
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- Author
- Seryun Lee
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences