Social live streaming services (SLSSs) are social media, which combine Live-TV with
elements of Social Networking Services (SNSs). In social media and thus also in SLSSs, the …

Pet influencers are rising stars on social media, and many everyday social media users also
curate profiles for their pets for fun. This study established a cat Instagram account and uses …

In this paper, we examine social media forms in relation to similarly multimodal, contingent
understandings of contemporary celebrity and the politics of what we term 'celebrity …

While significant attention has been paid to how social media influencers and content
creators use diverse channels for self-presentation and self-promotion, there has been …

Chinese female star Jing Tian is a figure surrounded by a series of narratives of failure.
Despite having a markedly high-profile career in both the Chinese film industry and …

Information science as a young and highly interdisciplinary science comprises content,
users, and systems (Stock & Stock, 2013). Jason Farradane proposed and coined the term …

This introductory chapter theorizes reluctance as a two-way affect: composed of both
inclination and disinclination. The author surveys a brief cultural and etymological history of …

This thesis looks at how Facebook (FB) facilitates the transformation of micro-celebrities
such as Pakistani social media micro-celebrity Qandeel Baloch, into embodiments of …