“Get Off My Internets”: How Anti-Fans Deconstruct Lifestyle Bloggers’ Authenticity Work

McRae, Sarah

doi:10.21153/ps2017vol3no1art640

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“…Door dieper in te gaan op de manieren hoe social influencers zich presenteren online en de -veranderende -werking van het nieuwsoverzicht hierbij in rekening te brengen, wensen we een duidelijker beeld te schetsen van hun leefwereld en dagelijkse praktijken. In lijn met vorig onderzoek merken we dat social influencers hun activiteiten als arbeidsintensief ervaren (Marwick, 2013;Mavroudis & Milne, 2016;McRae 2017). Hoewel Marwick (2013) en McRae (2017) benadrukten dat het delen van intieme informatie nodig is, deelden onze respondenten niet dezelfde mening en beperkten ze zich tot het delen van oppervlakkige informatie.…”

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“…In lijn met vorig onderzoek merken we dat social influencers hun activiteiten als arbeidsintensief ervaren (Marwick, 2013;Mavroudis & Milne, 2016;McRae 2017). Hoewel Marwick (2013) en McRae (2017) benadrukten dat het delen van intieme informatie nodig is, deelden onze respondenten niet dezelfde mening en beperkten ze zich tot het delen van oppervlakkige informatie. Daarnaast werd het duidelijk dat hun 'publiek' (volgers), 'concullenten' (andere social influencers) en vooral de 'setting' van handelen (Instagram en de werking van het nieuwsoverzicht-algoritme) een invloed uitoefende op hun zelfpresentatie.…”

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Social influencers, Instapods, en het nieuwsoverzicht-algoritme van Instagram

Henderickx¹,

Wolf²

2019

Tijdschrift Voor Communicatiewetenschap

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Sociale beïnvloeders, Instapods en het newsfeedalgoritme van Instagram Deze studie versterkt de stem van sociale beïnvloeders en de uitdagingen waarmee ze worden geconfronteerd. We kijken specifiek naar de faciliterende rol van het newsfeedalgoritme op Instagram. Tien diepteinterviews werden afgenomen met vrouwelijke sociale beïnvloeders tussen de leeftijd van 18 en 29. De resultaten laten zien hoe deze beïnvloeders veel negatieve bijwerkingen ervaren die worden veroorzaakt door het nieuwsfeedalgoritme. In lijn met Bucher (2012) beweren we door algoritmische herstructurering van informatiestromen dat zichtbaarheid een voorrecht is geworden op sociale media dat een ‘dreiging van onzichtbaarheid’ oplegt door sociale beïnvloeders. Onze gesprekken met beïnvloeders laten zien hoe de groei van hun profiel niet de energie en tijd weerspiegelt die ze hebben geïnvesteerd. Om het laatste aan te kunnen, nemen ze deel aan zogenaamde ‘Instapods’. In de discussie schetsen we verder hoe algoritmische obscurity en de praktijken in Instapods op gespannen voet staan met de authentieke rol die sociale beïnvloeders zichzelf toeschrijven.

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Social influencers, Instapods, en het nieuwsoverzicht-algoritme van Instagram

Henderickx¹,

Wolf²

2019

Tijdschrift Voor Communicatiewetenschap

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“…This diversity in cross-disciplinary interest in microcelebrity cultures has meant that scholars are looking at cultures of use across a variety of platforms. This includes early use devices and platforms such as webcams (i.e., Bailey, 2009;Senft, 2008) and blogs (i.e., Abidin, 2015a;Bakke, 2017;Hopkins, 2019;Mcrae, 2017), and commercial enterprises such as blogshops (i.e., Abidin & Thompson, 2012) and e-commerce websites (i.e., Chen, Benbasat, & Cenfetelli, 2017). Given their vast use around the world, Silicon Valley social networking sites are also popular areas of study and include Facebook (i.e., Jin, 2018;Mota, 2016;Vochocová, 2018), Instagram (i.e., Abidin, 2014aAbidin, , 2015bAbidin, , 2016aAbidin, , 2016bMarwick, 2015;Neal, 2017), Twitter (i.e., Bennett & Thomas, 2014;Chandawarkar et al, 2018;Trice & Potts, 2018), and YouTube (i.e., Arthurs et al, 2018;Ashton & Patel, 2017;Bakioglu, 2016;Bishop, 2018;Boxman-Shabtai, 2018;Brydges & Sjöholm, 2018;Ferchaud et al, 2018;García-Rapp, 2016;Jerslev, 2016;Johnston, 2016;Lovelock, 2016;Mardon et al, 2018;Meylinda, 2017;Mustonen, 2017;Sedláček, 2016;Smith, 2017;Tolson, 2010).…”

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“…Various cultural practices and subcultural communities of microcelebrity cultures have also caught the attention of scholars, who have investigated communities around bodybuilding (Fuller & Jeffery, 2016), LGBT activism (Lovelock, 2016;Mustonen, 2017), sexuality education (Abidin, 2017a;Johnston, 2016), politics (Tufeci, 2013;Vochocová, 2018), academia (McMillan Cottom, 2015), and practices around language (Page, 2012), humor and parody (Boxman-Shabtai, 2018), and digital artifacts such as selfies (Abidin, 2016a). A subset of studies has also begun to look at the negative subcultures and consequences of microcelebrity cultures around antagonisms and hating (Mcrae, 2017;Smith, 2017;Trice & Potts, 2018). Conceptually, emergent from this spread of studies are debates over notions of authenticity (i.e., Abidin, 2017b;Abidin & Ots, 2016;Ashton & Patel, 2017;Bruijn, 2016;Hall, 2015;Tolson, 2010), credibility (i.e., Abidin & Ots, 2016), privacy (i.e., Abidin, 2014b;Kane, 2010;Richards, 2015), copyright (i.e., Slater, 2017), and trends (i.e., Ferchaud et al, 2018).…”

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Abidin¹,

Brown²

2018

Microcelebrity Around the Globe

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Although the early conversations of microcelebrity centered on Anglocentric theories and context despite the varied backgrounds and cultural context of microcelebrity, this compilation of chapters seeks to assess and reframe the applications and uptake of microcelebrity around the world. Each of the chapters in this anthology contribute to expand the theoretical concept and contextualize the history and cultural affairs of those who are famous online. The case studies provide examples of how a microcelebrity emerges to fame because of their exposure and interaction within a group of niche users, a specific online community, or a specific cultural and geographical context through the social networks that emerge online. Academic scholarship on microcelebrity has crossed methodologies, disciplines and platforms demonstrating the wide appeal as the influence of these figures are on the rise. As preparation for the reader, this chapter offers a brief history of current scholarship, with an emphasis on shifting knowledge production away from an Anglo and Global North perspective. The introduction chapter serves as a road map for the reader breaking down each of the three sections of the booknorms, labors, and activism. Lastly, the coeditors have outlined different ways to read the text group chapters according to reader interest.

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“…Despite academic attention to GOMI (McRae, 2017;Hunter, 2016) and other gendered anti-fan communities (e.g., Jane, 2014;Marwick, 2013;Miltner, 2017), such sites have failed to register the same level of inquiry as other modes of online antagonism-most especially maledominated, toxic technocultures such as Gamergate, 4chan, and Men's Rights Activists, most of which are interrelated (Sobieraj, 2018;Lawson, 2018;Banet-Weiser, 2019;Phillips, 2014;Massanari, 2015;Nakamura, 2015). Furthermore, both scholarly and popular assessments of GOMI tend to be totalizing.…”

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“Fake” Femininity?: Gendered Authenticity Policing in Influencer Hateblogs

Duffy¹,

Miltner²,

Wahlstedt³

2021

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Though social media influencers hold a coveted status in the popular imagination, their requisite career visibility opens them up to intensified public scrutiny and—more pointedly—networked hate and harassment. Key repositories of such critique are influencer “hateblogs”-- forums for anti-fandom often dismissed as frivolous gossip or, alternatively, denigrated as conduits for cyberbullying and misogyny. This paper draws upon an analysis of a women-dominated community of anti-fans, Get Off My Internets (GOMI), to show instead how influencer hateblogs are discursive sites of gendered authenticity policing. Findings reveal that GOMI participants wage patterned accusations of duplicity across three domains where women influencers seemingly “have it all”: career, relationships, and appearance. But while hatebloggers’ policing of “fake” femininity may purport to dismantle the artifice of social media self-enterprise, we contend that such expressions fail to advance progressive gender politics, as they target individual-level--rather than structural--inequities.

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“Get Off My Internets”: How Anti-Fans Deconstruct Lifestyle Bloggers’ Authenticity Work

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Social influencers, Instapods, en het nieuwsoverzicht-algoritme van Instagram

Social influencers, Instapods, en het nieuwsoverzicht-algoritme van Instagram

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“Fake” Femininity?: Gendered Authenticity Policing in Influencer Hateblogs

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