Microcelebrity Around the Globe: Approaches to Cultures of Internet Fame

About the Author
Dr Crystal Abidin is Lecturer with the School of Communication and Creative Arts (SCCA) at Deakin University, Postdoctoral Fellow with the Media Management and Transformation centre (MMTC) at Jönköping University, and Adjunct Researcher with the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) at Curtin University. She is the author of Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online. Dr Megan Lindsay Brown is Postdoctoral Scholar in the Office of Gender Based Violence at Arizona State University, USA. Her postdoctoral work examines the intersections of intimate partner violence and online abuse, such as online harassment.
This absorbing anthology uses in-depth interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe to examine the practice and concept of microcelebrity.
Expanding on the existing theoretical framing of the online celebrity experience, the editors re-theorize microcelebrity to accommodate developments in global internet governance, the evolution of platform politics, the emergence of hybrid forms of celebrity, and the collapsing networks between old and new media. Chapters analyse experiences across Asia, Europe, Latin America and Australia, and consider microcelebrities at all stages of their careers, from everyday users and beginners to veteran influencers.
Arguing for new perspectives and theories of microcelebrity that take into account colonial geographies, cross-media networks between influencers and legacy media, and gendered aggression and political discourses in a social media-saturated age, this volume will be of huge value to students and scholars of microcelebrity, social media, digital labour, creative industries and internet culture.