Skip Nav Destination
Close Modal
1-20 of 20
Search Results for Instagram
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Journal Article
Instafame: Luxury Selfies in the Attention Economy
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 137–160.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Figure 2 Main Instagram app screen ...
FIGURES
| View All (9)
Journal Article
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 1–5.
Published: 01 January 2015
... as consuming it points to another theme that traverses many of these essays: the increasing proximity between celebrities and fans. Social media and mobile apps such as Instagram now make it easier for fairly ordinary people to emulate the glamorous attitudes and poses of the rich and famous and to garner...
Journal Article
Bodies of Digital Celebrity
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 185–192.
Published: 01 January 2015
... culture of Instagram) plays in the construction of celebrity simultaneously theorizes a new type of microcelebrity. And, in this respect, the look at new channels also notably encourages a new history of celebrity. It’s a complementary process: while many of the essays in this special issue look...
Journal Article
Sumud: Repertoires of Resistance in Silwan
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 495–514.
Published: 01 September 2022
... on Instagram under the name “Silwanic,” documents every Israeli assault on the residents of Silwan and has built an accessible digital archive of the day-to-day actions of Israeli police and settlers. 13 This renders visible the acts of aggression, and it builds awareness in Palestine and beyond. Another...
FIGURES
| View All (14)
Journal Article
The Political Imaginary of User Democracy
Available to Purchase
Public Culture 11714154.
Published: 19 March 2025
... information landscapes and digital public life. To give just one powerful example, as of September 2022, 3.71 billion people approximately 70 percent of all internet users worldwide used at least one Meta app every month, primarily Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsApp (Meta 2022). A single man, founder...
Journal Article
Be. Very. Careful. Who. You. Invite. In: A Warning, an Invitation, Destruction, and Creation in the Art of Image-Making
Available to Purchase
Public Culture 11714128.
Published: 19 March 2025
...-inspired backlash against civil liberties, including our First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, this is a very illiberal statement to make. In my earlier column I wrote that it was Mr. Douthat who needed to be very careful what he said, and by so saying, unleashed. The countless Instagram and Twitter posts...
Journal Article
Why Higher Education Demands a Paradigm Shift
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2014) 26 (1 (72)): 3–11.
Published: 01 January 2014
..., crowd-sourced, participatory, and yet also hypercommercialized. From Blackboard to Instagram, sites that began with user-generated content have changed not only ownership but terms of use. Tantalizing in design, they ultimately existed to turn voluntary and open contribution into someone else’s profit...
Journal Article
Building a Public Culture of Pandemic Storytelling
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 9–19.
Published: 01 January 2023
... in the United States tried to assemble their lives through various forms of storytelling. The personal documents they produced are also multimodal, with video diaries on TikTok, photo diaries on Instagram, self-recorded audio diaries, as well as texts (Bogumil 2022 ; Manley 2020 ). Philadelphia-based author...
Journal Article
Street Art and the Changing Urban Public Sphere
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2017) 29 (2 (82)): 385–414.
Published: 01 May 2017
... discussion about street art takes place, complementing and replacing more traditional forums and institutions (art magazines, galleries, museums). Street art images also enjoy large circulation on photo-sharing web and mobile applications like Instagram and Pinterest. Street artists normally maintain...
FIGURES
| View All (8)
Journal Article
Profiling “Money”
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 7–19.
Published: 01 January 2015
... the remaining value, cultural and economic, out of a compelling atavism. Since then, Mayweather has added more items to the list, including going to jail for domestic violence, disparaging Asians, posting Instagram shots of his six-digit sports-book betting slips, making $85 million in 2012 and as much...
Journal Article
The Aesthetics of Environmental Visualizations: More Than Information Ecstasy?
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 319–337.
Published: 01 May 2014
... and smartphones, following trending hashtags and Instagram photos. Visualization theory is undeniably audience-oriented insofar as it aims to inform and awaken viewers. Environmental groups’ and consultancies’ investments in the cultural form attest to this orientation. Yet the aesthetic coordinates of infovis...
FIGURES
Journal Article
American Elegy, Reflux: American Aspiration
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 289–303.
Published: 01 September 2021
...: Chauvin Verdict .” April 20 . https://www.wral.com/nbc-special-report-chauvin-verdict/19637028/ . Ocasio-Cortez Alexandria (@aoc) . 2020 . “ Hello teargas is a chemical banned in war .” Instagram photo, June 3 . www.instagram.com/p/CA_V5wSniT3/ . Randall Cassidy . 2020...
Journal Article
Digital Juneteenth: Territorializing the Freedom Colony Diaspora
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2022) 34 (3 (98)): 419–436.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Commons for educating descendants and communicating with one another. Through several social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, we recorded, archived, and shared stories from May to December 2020. The TXFC Project's publicly available YouTube channel stores instructional webinars...
FIGURES
Journal Article
The Digital Cloud and the Micropolitics of Energy
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2014) 26 (2 (73)): 339–364.
Published: 01 May 2014
... important work, I seek here to excavate the Internet’s data centers and energy demands from the ethereal images of the cloud. Those images mold how individual users think about platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and, in turn, conceal from public consciousness underlying network infrastructures...
FIGURES
| View All (5)
Journal Article
Face Mask Face-Offs: Culture and Conflict in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2021) 33 (3 (95)): 441–466.
Published: 01 September 2021
... he can reject public health rules (NowThis News 2020a ). He also threatens to publicly shame the Costco employee who's trying to enforce the store's mask mandate, raising his camera and telling the employee that his act will be witnessed by some “three thousand Instagram followers.” The employee...
FIGURES
| View All (10)
Journal Article
Reality Celebrity: Branded Affect and the Emotion Economy
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 109–135.
Published: 01 January 2015
... of synergistic marketing, in rare cases generating larger online than broadcast audiences. 5 It is also consistent with the observation made by Gamson (2011) that while the Internet—particularly sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram—certainly constitutes a space of celebrity production in its own...
FIGURES
| View All (6)
Journal Article
Navigating the Ocean of Suspicion: Affective Materiality and Agential Ambivalence in Sisi's Cairo
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2023) 35 (1 (99)): 49–71.
Published: 01 January 2023
... with other mutual friends. He was just out of prison where he spent three and a half months. Amr was thinner than usual. He looked very stressed and very serious. Someone asked him about his Facebook and he emphasized that he had to close it down as well as his Instagram, and that if he opened these accounts...
Journal Article
Celebrity 2.0: The Case of Marina Abramović
Available to Purchase
Public Culture (2015) 27 (1 (75)): 21–52.
Published: 01 January 2015
..., and intimacy long before the advent of reality TV and Instagram—by directly addressing audiences, for example, or by sending personalized replies to fan mail (see Stacey 1994 ; Marcus 2011 ; Marshall 1997 ; Smart 2005 ; Murray 2005 ; Langer 2006 ; Polan 2011 ). Since at least the 1920s, celebrities have...
FIGURES
| View All (12)
Journal Article
Bulldozers in the City Economies of Excess and Repair
Available to Purchase
Public Culture 11767244.
Published: 19 March 2025
... technologies that are embedded in hazardous and underpaid labor processes of informal economy (Saraf 2020). The bulldozer does not quite neatly fit into either discourse, but straddles both the stories of new India and of the world of unorganized labor. These machines may be glorified on Instagram...
