Internet Celebrity

The face of internet celebrity is rapidly diversifying and evolving. Online and mainstream celebrity culture are now weaving together, such that breakout stars from one-hit viral videos are able to turn their transient fame into a full-time career.

This book presents a framework for thinking about the different forms of internet celebrity that have emerged over the last decade,...

(展开全部)

Crystal Abidin is Postdoctoral Fellow with the Media Management and Transformation Centre (MMTC) at Jonkoping University, Sweden, and Adjunct Researcher with the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University, Australia. As a socio-cultural anthropologist of vernacular internet cultures, particularly young people's relationships with internet celebrity, self-cura...

(展开全部)