January 1, 2015

Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy

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The popular photo-sharing app Instagram has created a new breed of celebrities: the Instafamous. This essay examines the phenomenon—from Singaporean socialites showing off shoe collections to high school sophomores with ten thousand followers—and its relationship to celebrity and tabloid culture.

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Alice Marwick (Thu,) studied this question.

www.synapsesocial.com/papers/69df1b34d5404a0bea591fe5 — DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-2798379

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