Media genre, performance and bodies in transit: an analysis of talk TV dissent on YouTube

Abstract

This analytical paper proposes reflection on transformations of the television conversation operated on YouTube, with special interest in bodies that position themselves as dissidents. It takes as its empirical object three channels - Põe na Roda [Talk to All], Canal das Bee [Bee Channel] and Drag-se [Drag yourself] - that stress mediatic conventions of masculinities and femininities in relation to matrices of talk show and debate programs. The study points to places of reinforcement of the binary convention that marks the television bodies, despite the interest in identifying YouTube traffic places. It presents a historicized approach to the phenomenon, investing in the notion of television genre as a figure of historicities, in association with the sense of performance and self-reports.