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Author:   Rebecca Feasey
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781041252412

ISBN 10:   1041252412
Pages:   170
Publication Date:   03 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction: performance, authenticity and social media visibility 1. Influencers as role models 2. From attention to affect: gendered practices of status-seeking among Instagram content creators 3. The influencer in the age of climate change: the authentic role model for sustainability 4. Like a natural mom: social media influencers and digital maternal ambivalence in Italy 5. Consuming queerness: Jeffree Star and the paradox of profit and pleasure in the queer male beauty influencer 6. Disabled influencers on Instagram: exploring digital celebrity and marginalised identities 7. The godly girlboss 8. Beyond fame: online microcelebrity porn stars in the Twitter Alter Community in the Philippines 9. Waiting for a face reveal that never comes? How Vtubers challenge our understanding of influencer authenticity

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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.

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