Alice E. Marwick — Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy
17 published claims from this book.
- Feigned indifference to fame makes online popularity seem deserved
- Inherited wealth is framed by its displayers as earned.
- Inherited wealth is presented by microcelebrities as earned merit.
- Instafame means having a relatively large follower count on Instagram
- Instagram authenticity markers resist manipulation more than Twitter’s text does
- Instagram makes extreme wealth feel real rather than televisual fantasy.
- Instagram’s design forces microcelebrities into clunky substitutes for direct audience interaction.
- Instagram’s unidirectional following model favors fans over known friends.
- Microcelebrity is strategic self-presentation aimed at accumulating attention and online status.
- Microcelebrity status on Instagram can arise without an obvious platform or talent
- Online fame remains fractional in value and resources compared to traditional stardom.
- Open-ended social media platforms let non-mainstream individuals attain popularity.
- Pop stardom now rewards reflexive ironic disavowal rather than sincerity
- Proximity to a celebrity can confer fame onto otherwise unknown people.
- Social-media authenticity paradoxically invites skeptical questions about wealth’s source.
- Social-media popularity amplifies high-school popularity into mainstream celebrity
- The term microcelebrity originated in Senft’s 2008 study of camgirls.