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Zolides, Andrew.

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Cult of Personalities: The Influence Economy of Digital Culture.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Cult of Personalities: The Influence Economy of Digital Culture./
Author:	Zolides, Andrew.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	281 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International79-01A(E).
Subject:	Communication. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10621023
ISBN:	9780355172492

Cult of Personalities: The Influence Economy of Digital Culture.
Zolides, Andrew.

Cult of Personalities: The Influence Economy of Digital Culture. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 281 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2017.

Technological convergence has enabled consumers more freedom in media production but that also extends to the production of identity. The tools of purposefully constructing one's own public persona across a variety of media have expanded, meaning the logics of fame and the celebrity industry have spread to the masses. When everyone is capable of managing themselves as a celebrity, new industries emerge to support and benefit from those activities. Neoliberal economics that encourage freelance, project-based labor and lead to increased precarity for the average worker mean a new reliance upon generating and maintaining valuable networks using these platforms. The result is something this dissertation calls the influence economy, a system wherein self-promotion is encouraged and value is assigned and rewarded based on the ability to create and maintain a desirable audience. In the influence economy, everyone is a potential media personality and thus performs the labor of spreading messages. How this labor is valued and compensated is the focus of this dissertation, as I look to compare the strategies and industrial practices of celebrities, corporations, and activist groups to argue that even when utilizing social media for various end-goals, the logics of the influence economy and the power of individual personalities reign supreme.

ISBN: 9780355172492Subjects--Topical Terms:

524709
Communication.

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