Influencers

New publication: Victim, Rival, Bully

Hi friends, I have a new book chapter in Narratives in Research and Interventions on Cyberbullying among Young People edited by Heidi Vandebosch & Lelia Green. Victim, Rival, Bully: Influencers’ Narrative Cultures […]

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Overly Honest Acknowledgments.

I just completed the acknowledgments for book 02 and now I want to cry. Today in Overly Honest Academia: “Finally, if you have made it this far down our acknowledgements, […]

Academica Dramatica

MA and PhD theses on cultures of internet celebrity.

Moshimoshi folks, I have just spent several days poring through […]

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New pop article: Layers of Identity

Moshimoshi folks, My latest piece for Real Life is on Influencer culture: On how to look extremely real when you are extremely online. Read Layers of Identity: How to be “real” when […]

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Radio interview: Internet celebrity and Influencer cultures

Hi folks, On 11 April 2018, I had the pleasure […]

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Keynote video: Cultures of Internet Celebrity on YouTube

Moshimoshi folks! In March, I had the pleasure of keynoting […]

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Podcast with The Human Show: Influencers and Youth Online.

Hi folks! I was invited to be on a podcast […]

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Not Just Another Gangnam Style: Framing politics and internet celebrity in East Asia

Last week, a popular commentary article covering my work on […]

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How social media videos turn children into viral sensations

Moshimoshi folks! I’m thrilled to share this radio interview featuring […]

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Business Briefing: the ‘get rich quick scheme’ influencing what you buy

Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of speaking to […]

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Recent developments in the global Influencer industry.

While updating my personal archive of news relating to the […]

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When exploiting kids for cash goes wrong on YouTube: the lessons of DaddyOFive

In light of the recent DaddyOFive controversy, Tama Leaver and […]

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YouTuber Influencers vs. Legacy Media: PewDiePie, Weaponized microcelebrity, and Cross-media politics

Last week, Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article and […]

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Micro-microcelebrity: Famous Babies and Business on the Internet

Ten years ago, as a teenager in junior college, I […]

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Procrastiprogress updates from the cave VI.

Moshimoshi folks, I can’t believe it’s already the end of September. This month has been hectic but fulfilling. I finally attended my PhD Convocation ceremony, 13 months after I had […]

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2006-2016: From Lonelygirl15 to Lil Miquela.

Over the past week, the great resource hive that is the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list resurfaced discussions on Lonelygirl15; my Sociology of Popular Culture students discussed the Marina Joyce […]

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Gross is the new like? Grotesque microcelebrity and carnivalesque commerce

(This was first published on Cyborgology on 24 August 2016.) […]

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A few shifts in the Influencer industry

Today, Instagram decided to introduce “Stories“. Admittedly a copy of Snapchat’s Stories, Instagram writes: With Instagram Stories, you don’t have to worry about overposting. Instead, you can share as much […]

Academica Dramatica

Hello. It’s me.

Moshimoshi folks. Am pretty psyched and honoured to be featured in Pacific Standard Magazine’s 30 Top Thinkers Under 30. Special thanks to Natayla Savka for a fun interview and the […]

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East Asian Influencer culture featured in Journalisten.no.

I was recently interviewed by the Norwegian Union of Journalists […]

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Genealogies: Writing, Research, and Influencers

I recently published a journal article on micro-microcelebrity (pdf | […]

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November & December in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne.

Moshimoshi folks! I make my annual pilgrimage to the Eastern […]

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Digital detox, Media panics, and What’s next.

This continues from my earlier post on Essena O’Neill, Authenticity, and […]

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Essena O’Neill, Authenticity, and Vlog Wars.

Edit: Part two here – Digital detox, Media panics, and What’s […]

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March & April in Boras, Jönköping, Manchester.

Greetings, netizens of Böras, Jönköping, and Manchester! I’ll be heading […]

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March in Paris & Trondheim.

Moshimoshi, good people of Paris and Trondheim! Am passing through your city to talk about digital anthropology and smartphone anxiety, ‘cute’ Internet culture, and run a pedagogical workshop on selfie […]

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It’s a blog eat blog world

This post was first published on Asian Creative Transformations, 6 February 2015 Drama and disorder in the Singaporean webscape I spent all of Christmas 2014 and New Year 2015 conducting […]

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February in Stockholm.

Dear good people of Stockholm, I’ll be lurking around your city to give three talks on various aspects of Internet culture. See you there? PS: Thank you magical fairies, Rebekah, […]

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Fieldnotes: Social media microcelebrity and affective labour

I sit in a dessert cafe in the heart of […]

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Fieldnotes: Body labour and selfies

“In the flesh, these microcelebrities seem to have mastered the practice of displaying their camera ready face – head slightly tilted to emphasize oneʼs chin and elongate the face; eyebrows slightly […]

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