Abstract
ABSTRACTThis paper discusses the popular YouTube genre of room tours. In these short, amateurish or semi-professional videos, predominantly female teenagers put their bedrooms on show, painstakingly commenting on furniture and decoration. While room tours as such have not yet been a subject of academic study, contemporary scholars investigate similar digital practices under two main perspectives. One is concerned with their emancipatory potential for girls and young women; the other one draws attention to the risks of self-exposure in cyberspace. The present article focuses, on the contrary, on the roots of the room tour genre in cultural history and demonstrates its generic similarities with the nineteenth-century practices of ‛making of the parlour’ as a highly specific space in which private and public spheres interacted and the symbolic capital of the family was both created and put on show.
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