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Arts and music
Big Mama (film), a 2000 Oscar-winning American film about grandparents raising their grandchildren
Big Mama (band), a band of four female pop/R&B singers in South Korea
"Big Mama" (song), by Latto
Big Mama, a character in the 1981 film The Fox and the Hound
Big Mama, a character in the anime and manga series Sorcerer Hunters
Big Mama, a nickname of EVA in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Big Mama, a nickname of Josephine Joseph, matriarchal character in the Soul Food film and television series
"Big Mama (Unconditional Love)", a song by LL Cool J from his 2002 album 10
Big Mama Thornton (1926–1984), American blues singer
BigMama, the stage name of Italian rapper Marianna Mammone (born 2000)
Other
Big Mama, a name for Mary, mother of Jesus in the Mama Tata religion
Big Mama, a nickname of JoAnne Carner, former LPGA golfer
Big mama, a colloquial name for Internet censors on web bulletin boards in the People's Republic of China
See also
Big Momma's House, a 2000 series of American comedy films
Chinese dama, a term that refers to Chinese middle-aged women
Big mama (Chinese: 大妈; pinyin: dà mā) is a Chinese language neologism for an Internet censor on web bulletin board systems in the People's Republic of China.
Big mamas are human censors and moderators on different online platforms who remove politically sensitive information, comments and postings on news forums and chatrooms. The Chinese government also has a team of censors and internet police to monitor internet content; however, it is not possible for them to control the whole internet. Yale Global calls all Chinese censors, including the internet police, big mamas. However, big mamas are generally understood as censors working in the private sector. Private sector companies have a market interest to self-censor their websites and users' comments to fall in line with the Chinese government's internet goals, economic and industrial Chinese development. Private companies use many technologies to censor themselves and their users, one of which is hiring teams of computer workers and programmers, called big mamas, to censor the content of website forums, chatrooms, comment sections and bulletin board systems. Big mamas are prevalent across many companies and have led to a larger discourse on censorship that can be compared to the Western idea of Big Brother on a smaller scale.
Technology and process
A study of the site Sina Weibo, a microblogging site, was conducted by BBC to see how quickly censors removed material and gain insight about big mamas. The study concluded many things including that those who are censored often are censored at a faster rate. Around 90% of politically risky content is removed in the first 24 hours, 5% within 8 minutes and 30% in the first half hour. It also concluded just for the site Sina Weibo, a social media platform, there would have to be at least 4,000 monitors if none of the process was automated. The job of big mamas is becoming more automated as technology becomes more advanced.
China has allowed foreign companies to be part of the market and has relied on foreign technologies and companies to maintain censorship.
Examples
China has allowed foreign companies to invest and be part of the Chinese internet. In order to maintain a piece of the market these foreign companies, like Yahoo, follow Chinese censorship regulations, often by hiring big mamas to monitor bulletin board content.
Yahoo is the most common example of a private company in China that uses big mamas. The chatrooms are censored in real time; when someone posts a politically risky comment big mamas send them an email warning from Yahoo and their post cannot be seen by others. Yahoo in 2002 signed a Public Pledge on Self-discipline (known as The Pledge) promising to regulate chatrooms in line with the Chinese governments laws and regulations. Approximately 300 other companies signed this pledge, many of which also use big mamas and other technologies to censor users and information. All chatrooms and bulletin board systems and news agencies in Chinese cyberspace have a big mama that decide what content is acceptable and what content needs removed.
Self-censorship
The role of big mamas can be compared to the western concept of Big Brother. The pressure of self-regulation on private web companies from the government and market encourages them to self-censor and censor their users. The Pledge is an example of self-discipline and censorship that has been codified and signed by many web companies in China. The Pledge promised to remove harmful information from the internet.
The censorship by companies of their chatrooms and bulletin boards has led their users to censor themselves to avoid being censored or punished. Lokman Tsui, who has written about big mamas, calls this concept the digital panopticon. Every level of a network regulates itself and censors the level below; this works all the way down to big mamas who moderate chatrooms down to users who regulate each-other's behavior.
Big mama has created a discourse of self-censorship and control; as Lokman Tsui wrote "Big Mama is watching you". When users censor themselves at a smaller level it is more effective than direct censorship from the top. Big mamas have led to both societal and self-censorship that is beyond government-controlled top-down censorship.
Etymology
The name is derived from the name for the wife of the eldest uncle, who in traditional Chinese families has the responsibility to take care of everyone. Big mamas act quite openly and are not reluctant to admit the fact that they are censoring and why they are doing so. The actions of big mamas are generally taken more with annoyance and amusement than with alarm, and there is often some humorous bantering with big mama.
See also
50 Cent Party
Big Brother (1984)
Internet censorship in the People's Republic of China
Jingjing and Chacha
References
External links
Tsui, Lokman (2001). "Big Mama is Watching You: Internet Control by the Chinese government". Unpublished MA thesis, University of Leiden.
Marianna Mammone (born 10 March 2000), known professionally as BigMama, is an Italian singer, rapper and songwriter.
Early life
Marianna Mammone was born in San Michele di Serino, Avellino. She has three brothers. She graduated from a liceo scientifico and moved to Milan in 2018 to study urban planning at the Polytechnic University.
Mammone began rapping at the age of 13. In 2016, at the age of 16, she began publishing her songs at the encouragement of her friends.
Career
At the Sanremo Music Festival 2023, Mammone duetted with Elodie, performing "American Woman" by The Guess Who.
In February 2024, she was a contestant at the Sanremo Music Festival 2024 with the song "La rabbia non ti basta". The following month, she released her second studio album, Sangue. In April 2024, she announced the publication of her first autobiography, Cento occhi, to be released on 14 May 2024.
In May 2024, BigMama performed at the Una Nessuna Centomila charity concert at the Verona Arena with Alessandra Amoroso. Following the concert, Amoroso asked BigMama to collaborate on a song together, and the two eventually released the single "Mezzo rotto", which peaked at number ten on the Italian singles chart. In September 2024 BigMama was honored witht the Breakthrough Award at the Billboard Italia Women in Music.
Personal life
As a child, Mammone struggled with bullying due to her weight. She is openly bisexual.
She was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma in 2020 and completed chemotherapy by February 2021.
Discography
= Studio albums
== Singles
=Collaborations
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