Exclusive internet celebrity derives from the display of high economic capital.

Evidence

Internet celebrity that is “exclusive” is the glamorization and celebration of practices and possessions so elite in access or rare in occurrence that it would be unusual for ordinary people to experience them without high “economic capital.” Economic capital refers to the assets that are monetary or have monetary value attached to them and can thus be directly converted into money from their institutionalized forms, such as property and goods. — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity, 103

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘exclusive’ quality of celebrity and Bourdieu’s economic capital as applied to it.
• XREF: connects to: Exotic internet celebrity arises from gaps in cultural capital between performer and audience. — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame…, 109; Fame now precedes wealth in the attention economy — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 139; Intersectionality determines how exotic an internet celebrity appears to each viewer. (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Exotic internet celebrity arises from gaps in cultural capital between performer and audience. #contradicts (0.85) — Crystal Abidin, Internet Celebrity, 109
• Elite influencers are vertically integrated capital embodying the corporation as a person. #expands (0.85)
• Intersectionality determines how exotic an internet celebrity appears to each viewer. #qualifies (0.80)
• Celebrity functions as stored attention convertible into commercial influence #expands (0.80) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 150
• Fame now precedes wealth in the attention economy #contradicts (0.75) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 139