Micro-celebrity authenticity rests on cross-platform consistency of self-presentation

Evidence

To Walker, “authenticity” is not so much about revealing deeply personal information as it is about consistency: “Tristan equals Tristan no matter where you go.” He imagines readers judging his authenticity across times and mediums, and coming up with a reliable uniformity of self-presentation. Being “authentic” is a very tenuous definitional frame that can be broken by nearly anything, even something inconsequential. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 284

Categorization

• DEFINE: Consistency across time and platform, not disclosure, is the operative meaning of authenticity for self-branders.
• XREF: connects to: Platforms differ in how easily status can be faked versus genuinely performed — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 263; Influencers present divergent glamorized and grim self-images across platforms — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory: A Marxist…, 204; Tech-scene authenticity means constancy and consistency, not volume of disclosure — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 287 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Influencers present divergent glamorized and grim self-images across platforms #contradicts (0.92) — Grant Bollmer, Katherine Guinness, The Influencer Factory, 204