Project Idea
A City of influencers
Key words：Virtual celebrity community, iterative celebrity, digital city
My initial idea is about the city I live in and its city Hangzhou.
Background: Influencer economy and China’s Silicon Valley
Hangzhou is called China’s Silicon Valley, because of the development of the Internet industry, it also drives a number of social media influencers By 2015, webcasting became a major outlet, and in 2016, short videos surged, and the Internet celebrity economy began to break out. And Hangzhou has just become the intersection of the e-commerce industry and various entertainment outlets. In Hangzhou, there are about 800 well-known “net celebrities” with more than one million fans. There are 13 influencers with tens of millions of fans on a short video platform alone, accounting for about 12.0% of the country’s total. There are a total of 40 “net celebrity” operating organizations registered in Hangzhou, including Ruhan who logged on to the Nasdaq in 2019. The number of influencers is very large, and their monetization ability is equally amazing. A well-known “net celebrity” operating agency in Hangzhou generates an average monthly e-commerce turnover of more than 2.5 million yuan per “net celebrity”, of which the top “net celebrity” has contributed over 100 million yuan or even 1 billion yuan in total. A hundred or even a thousand times the sales or TV advertising. At the same time, Internet celebrities and the Internet celebrity economy are also changing the city and even China. My current idea is to look at the influence of Internet celebrities by exploring how to become an Internet celebrity, and he will explore the impact of the digital economy. How does Kol affect us?
Will the iteration of technology cause the iteration of Internet celebrities?
In the era of 5g and the advent of artificial intelligence, what impact will it have on Internet celebrity cities? What will the future Internet celebrity club look like? How will the city they live in change because of technology?
Iterative influencers of the new world, For example, the emergence of Nerualink virtual internet celebrities, Will the emergence of technology invade existing culture? What impact will it have on our community In the Internet world, everyone is an influencer Internet of things city, human beings live in the digital world
What changes will be made to the influence of Internet celebrities on the economy and culture?
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It’s such an interesting data. I wonder how could an influencer look like pre Internet times. And how will they look like in 10-20 years or so? And if there’s a territory bounds to their ‘influencing’ – are they famous only in China or outside of it as well and how far?
If you could, how could you phrase what you are trying to do with one question?
Hi, Ruta,
After this week, I read some interesting news, I wonder if I can change my thesis idea.
[Background]
1. Should single as well as married women are allowed to freeze their eggs？not according to China’s top health authority, whose recent comments de defending this position, sparked heated debate this week.
2. 2. Men can freeze sperm, but women cannot freeze eggs. The official explanation is that the technology and risks of freezing eggs are different from the risks of freezing sperm. （男性可一冷冻精子，但女性不可以冻卵子。官方的解释是冻卵的技术和风险与冷冻精子的风险不同。）
3. Another new is the Chinese celebrity Shuang Zheng’s surrogacy issues cause a big debate in China.（郑爽代孕引发舆论风波。）
[Initial Ideas]
Woman’s Fertility gradually declines in the 30s, particularly after age 35, but for various reasons (Workplace competition/ psychological/ Sexual orientation/……), This contradiction is plagued by more and more women of 30+, who somehow do not want to move so early In married life, some focus on career, and some are bisexual (including men).
The different physiological structure leads to the unfairness of the social status of men and women. From another perspective, if men are given the possibility of giving birth to themselves, will they reverse the composition and the order of this society? Society will become freer and closer to utopia, or will it violate the laws of nature，Leading mankind go to a destructive ending?
In China, the issue of fertility has always symbolized power. The issue of fertility is an emerging social issue as it is a conflict between male and feminist rights. It’s the dominant power infertility has the dominant power in society.
For my thesis, I want to discuss the woman’s fertility rights, especially the 30+mid-class woman who want to keep single or have no plan to give birth to a baby in their fertility ages.
Can they in charge of their fertility?
With the emergence of egg freezing and surrogate technology, many people regard it as a regret medicine that may choose the current life.
Should we support females conduct their own fertilities?
育龄女性为了各种原因（社会竞争/心里/）想要延缓生育，但是女性的育龄年纪只有在特定的年纪段，这种矛盾困扰着越来越多30+的女性，她们有些不想这么早步入婚姻生活，有些结了婚还想先奋斗事业的，还有些在性取向上是更偏向双性恋的……
生理构造上的不公平，导致男性和女性社会地位的不公平。从另外一个角度来说，男性如果被赋予自己生育的可能性，是否会颠倒这个社会的构成和秩序，这个社会会变得更加自由，更加接近乌托邦，还是说它会因为违背自然的规律，而让人类走向一个毁灭的结局？
在中国，生育问题一直象征着权力，与其说生育问题是一个逐渐显现的社会问题，不如说是个男权和女权的斗争问题，谁占据了生育的主导权，谁就占据了社会的主导权。
随着冻卵技术的出现，很多人把它当作一个可能选择当前生活的后悔药。我们应该支持女性的生育权利吗？
I want to discuss the following questions:
* Egg freezing: Can Woman hold fertility rights in their own hands? Like they want to have children later in their lives?
*What if the man can fertilize in the future? Can man instead of woman be a ‘mother’?
*Surrogate Industry: Ukraine’s baby factories: Is surrogacy fair?
*The conflicts between Middle Class and the Authorities.
*What if there’s a new medicine technique to reverse restores periods and produces fertile eggs. The quality of women’s eggs is not limited by age. If it’s can come true, will it cause any other social problems?
*Low birth rate and freezing
Ref: https://www.gminsights.com/industry-analysis/surrogacy-market