Always-on contact shapes intimacy, celebrity, and status simultaneously

Evidence

Texting, Facebook, and Twitter are used by teens to remain in nearly constant contact with friends, creating strong bonds of intimacy and togetherness. Celebrities use Twitter to stay in touch with fans by strategically revealing insider information. Web 2.0 folks intentionally reach out to followers to increase their visibility and social capital in the scene. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 527

Categorization

• XREF: Foreshadows the author’s core argument about social capital and visibility that runs through later chapters on self-branding. — connects to: Micro-celebrity extends para-social interaction from one-way media to direct networked response — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 281; TV talk shows deliberately engineer an illusion of intimacy with audiences — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 774; Performing sexual availability can multiply rather than restrict celebrity reach — Crystal Abidin and Megan Lindsay Brown (eds.), Microcelebrity Around the Globe:…, 993

Broader Connections

• Micro-celebrity extends para-social interaction from one-way media to direct networked response #expands (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 281
• TV talk shows deliberately engineer an illusion of intimacy with audiences #expands (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 774