The rise of social media influencers (SMIs) in the recent decade garnered wide interest from
academicians and marketers. Academicians try to understand the effect of influencers on …

Influencers have monopolized media attention in recent years, the result of a long process
lasting two decades dating from the rise of blogging at the beginning of the twenty-first …

The widespread uptake of digital platforms–from YouTube and Instagram to Twitch and
TikTok–is reconfiguring cultural production in profound, complex, and highly uneven ways …

While champions of the “new” creative economy consistently hype the career possibilities
furnished by YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and the like, critics have cast a spotlight on the …

While metrics have long played an important, albeit fraught, role in the media and cultural
industries, quantified indices of online visibility—likes, favorites, subscribers, and shares …

Despite extensive literature on content creators' identities, strategies, and activities, there
remains a gap in understanding how the constantly changing platform environment impacts …

Efforts to govern algorithms have centerd the 'black box problem,'or the opacity of algorithms
resulting from corporate secrecy and technical complexity. In this article, I conceptualize a …

As the logic of data-driven metrification reconfigures various realms of social and economic
life, cultural workers—from journalists and musicians to photographers and social media …

Staring out from the cover of New Yorkmagazine's September 2019 issue was a close-up of
a young woman's face, wide-eyed with a resigned “can you believe this?” expression …

Social media sites offer critical opportunities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, and
other sexual and/or gender minority (LGBTQ+) youth to enhance well-being through …