Douyiner
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /doʊˈjɪnɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dəʊˈjɪnə/
- Rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
- Hyphenation: dou‧yi‧ner
Noun
[edit]Douyiner (plural Douyiners)
- A user of the video-sharing social media platform Douyin.
- 2019, Xing Lu, Zhicong Lu, “Fifteen Seconds of Fame: A Qualitative Study of Douyin, A Short Video Sharing Mobile Application in China”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media: Design, Human Behavior and Analytics; […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 11578), Springer Nature, , →ISBN, pages 233–234 and 238:
- Douyin’s influence has even extended offline, as many users identify themselves as ‘Douyiner’ (“抖音人”) and socialize with each other using jargons in real life. […] They also learn from such prattles and use them in their real life for romantic relationship, as noted by P6, a female high schooler: “I really enjoy watching this Douyiner. His voice is nice, and he always posts videos in which he is narrating beautiful prattles to us. […]”
- 2019 October 8, Tian Lu, “Beijing Internet Court: whether a short video is original or not has nothing to do with its length”, in IPKat[1], archived from the original on 2019-10-08:
- In May 2018, ‘Black Face V’, a popular ‘Douyiner’ with 26.37 million followers, posted a 13-second video entitled ‘I want to tell you’ on Douyin, in which the watermarks of ‘Douyin’ and ‘ID: 145651081’ were embedded.
- 2020, Aliaksandra Shutsko, “User-Generated Short Video Content in Social Media. A Case Study of TikTok”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media: Participation, User Experience, Consumer Experience, and Applications of Social Computing; […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 12195), Springer Nature, , →ISBN, page 112:
- Beyond the Douyiner’s motivations, Lu and Lu’s study [6] revealed the content categories the users engage in. […] Although not being representative, the category “prosocial behaviour” of humans was named by the Douyiners as important due to its association with “positive energy.”
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Douyiner.