The term microcelebrity originated in Senft’s 2008 study of camgirls.

Evidence

The term microcelebrity was coined in Theresa Senft’s 2008 study of camgirls. Early webcams broadcast live, posting a series of still frames that were refreshed every thirty seconds or so. Today live webcams are more typically associated with pornography, while video bloggers (“vloggers”) use webcams to record short videos posted to sites like YouTube. — Alice E. Marwick, Instafame, 7

Categorization

• CANDY: Light tech-history trivia: early webcams streamed a refresh-every-30-seconds still frame, not true live video.
• XREF: connects to: Micro-celebrity tactics originated with camgirls and spread across social media domains. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 726

Related

• Micro-celebrity tactics originated with camgirls and spread across social media domains. (similarity 0.90)
• Micro-celebrity is a practice, not a status (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Micro-celebrity tactics originated with camgirls and spread across social media domains. #corroborates (0.95) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 726