1st Edition
Social Media Influencers Aspiration, Inspiration and Authenticity
Introduction: Performance, authenticity and social media visibility
Rebecca Feasey
1. Influencers as role models
Alfred Archer and Catherine M. Robb
2. From attention to affect: gendered practices of status-seeking among Instagram content creators
Lucia Bainotti
3. The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability
Helle Kannik Haastrup and P. David Marshall
4. Like a natural mom: social media influencers and digital maternal ambivalence in Italy
Maria Elena D’Amelio
5. Consuming queerness: Jeffree Star and the paradox of profit and pleasure in the queer male beauty influencer
Allan S. Taylor
6. Disabled influencers on Instagram: exploring digital celebrity and marginalised identities
Filippo Trevisan and Manuela Farinosi
7. The godly girlboss
Courtney J. Dreyer and Dakota J. Sandras
8. Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines
Ruepert Jiel Dionisio Cao
9. Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How Vtubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity
Robin Schmieder
Biography
Rebecca Feasey is Reader in Feminist Media Studies and Subject Leader in Media and Critical Studies at Bath Spa University, UK. She has published books on Masculinity and Popular Television (2008), Motherhood and Popular Television (2012), Maternal Readings of Popular Television (2016) and Infertility and Non-Traditional Family Building: From Assisted Reproduction to Adoption in the Media (2019), alongside work on gender and fame cultures in journals such as Celebrity Studies, Men and Masculinities and Feminist Media Studies.
