[ecrea] new book - Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online

new book,/Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online/, now out in 
paperback and ebook.

*Description*
The face of internet celebrity is rapidly diversifying and evolving. 
Online and mainstream celebrity culture are now weaving together, such 
that breakout stars from one-hit viral videos are able to turn their 
transient fame into a full-time career. This book presents a framework 
for thinking about the different forms of internet celebrity that have 
emerged over the last decade, taking examples from the Global North and 
South, to consolidate key ideas about cultures of online fame. It 
discusses the overall landscape, developments and trends in the internet 
celebrity economy, and cross-cultural lessons.

The book is pitched to a non-specialist audience and would be great for 
undergraduate classes on celebrity studies, internet culture, digital 
media, and visual studies. If you are an instructor looking to purchase 
copies of the book for your class, bulk discounts are available at 50 
and 100 copies. Please write to Sarah Broadley for enquiries at 
sbroadley[at]emeraldgroup[dot]com.

*Preview*
Preview ten free pages here: https://www.book2look.com/book/1e8q1hEFdy 
<https://www.book2look.com/book/1e8q1hEFdy>

*Purchase*
Order direct from the Emerald site with the code "LIKE" for 30% off: 
http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Internet-Celebrity/?k=9781787560796&loc=us 
<http://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/Internet-Celebrity/?k=9781787560796&loc=us>

*Further information*
For more information on other purchasing options, detailed contents, 
book tour dates (I welcome more invitations), and sightings of the book 
In The Wild (send me your pix!), please visit: 
https://wishcrys.com/internet-celebrity-emerald/ 
<https://wishcrys.com/internet-celebrity-emerald/>

*Endorsements*
“A succulent collection of up to date and incisive contributions to the 
field of global micro-celebrity. It offers an impressive array of new 
ideas and arguments to help us to understand and research one of the 
characteristic developments of our time.”  –Chris Rojek, Professor of 
Sociology, City, University of London

“Crystal Abidin has produced a most useful book. It brings our 
understanding of internet celebrity right up to date, and does so with 
an exemplary attention to its proliferating diversity of form, content, 
structure and location.” –Graeme Turner, University of Queensland

“Teachers: want your celebrity lectures to reflect developments on 
YouTube, Instagram and Twitch? This is your book. Students: want a way 
to link theories of branding, taste, and authenticity to stories about 
viral memes, extreme eating channels, and “buying likes”? This is your 
book. All Readers: Want a globally-focused primer on an emergent 
entertainment phenomenon that is as (at times) as baffling as it is (at 
times) lucrative? This is definitely your book.” –Dr. Theresa M. Senft, 
Macquarie University, NSW, Australia


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