...—celebrities. There are through-lines among the essays (such as the interplay of amateur and professional or the tension between top-down and bottom-up processes of celebrity making), and read together they offer a rich comparative grasp of the complexities of celebrity and fame in the Internet age. 2015...

... and tabloid culture. 2015 celebrity Instagram Internet fame microcelebrity social media Empire on top, my Instagram—my watch Five days on my yacht Cash money act up I just Instagram my shit and let them broke haters just watch —Fat Joe, “Instagram That Hoe” Instagram, the mobile...

... to build the networks that increase their fame, just as television decreasingly relies on professional celebrity actors but instead cooperates with its viewers and their Internet activity to make stars. Increasingly, celebrities and fans alike are shrewd users of media who also let themselves be used...

... celebrity have remained fairly constant for over a century and which have been significantly altered by the advent of digital media. 2015 Marina Abramović celebrity fandom performance art social media Has the Internet, in addition to freeing knowledge, driving us to distraction, and allowing...

... speaks to variation internal to the category “ordinary celebrity” itself. Just as the celebrity generated by the Internet differs from that generated by reality television (see Gamson 2011 ), the celebrity of reality participants is not all of one kind: the winner of American Idol or a recurring...

... to consider Assala’s body as a site of contestation of the present and future of Syria, a space where Syrians project fantasy and hope. As the Internet “dispersed” Assala’s spectacular body, it also turned her own body into a prism through which power and sovereignty could be refracted away from the dictator...

... emboldened either to expose the rapacity and irresponsibility of their corporate employers ( Hargrove 2015) or to reveal the error of their own ways ( O’Barry 2012) . Most of the action, however, has been on the Internet, with numerous advocacy networks having been built up around social media...

..., or WELL. By the 1990s, both he and the WELL would become internationally visible emblems of the kind of networked sociability bubbling up on the Internet (see fig. 2 ). Figure 2 Stewart Brand in 2007, sporting the top hat he wore as a counterculture emcee in the late 1960s. Screen capture from...

... productivity applications (e.g., Gmail, Calendar, Google Spreadsheets, and Google Health). Google aspires to “order” the Internet via its famed PageRank algorithm. Google acquired Writely (an online word-processing application) in early 2006 and YouTube in late 2006. One of Google’s major...

...” of the Cultural Revolution have been set up on the Internet, hosting historical images, documents, personal narratives, and scholarly articles.5 The “holdings” of these “museums” often overlap and replicate themselves in cyberspace, fighting...

... with changing conceptions of urban disorder ( Emirbayer and Sheller 1999 ; Habermas 1989 ; Rancière 2010) . My central argument is that the Internet and other forms of new digital communications technology have played a major role in the popularization and legitimation of street art by enabling the large...

..., especially in the United States, is generally construed as so crass an activity that participating in it either constitutes a barrier to fame or — for those who have already achieved celebrity status — risks tarnishing a carefully cultivated star persona. On the Internet, a new genre of “gotcha” video...

...- ple joined financial wizards. Whole towns in western Canada invested.2 The new world of Internet investment blossomed with Bre-X. Meanwhile, Bre-X received continuous coverage in North American newspapers, especially after huge Cana...

... disciplinary boundaries. The journal remains a platform for social observers keen to explore heterogeneous cultural worlds. In just the past ten years, for example, Public Culture has proven to be an analytic framework capable of engaging topics ranging from climate change to Internet celebrity, economic...

... Expression in the Age of the Internet: Social and Legal Boundaries. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. Liu, Lydia H., ed. 2000. Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulations. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. Macedo, Donaldo...

...”; through its circulation in broadcasting and advertising; and in some cases, through its mere consumptive use, via a jukebox or Internet downloads. This is all crucial for understanding the intersections of Cuban late socialist structures...

.... 389 Public Culture Imprinting Graffiti and tagging are today globalized modes of expression adopted by youth groups everywhere, establishing a dialogue among them that has been greatly facilitated by the Internet. As expected...

... an increasing visibility of Westernized, Cairo-based, upper- and middle-class Egyptian men who identify as gay and consort with European and American tourists, as well as the related increase in Internet activ- ity among these men to arrange for meetings. It should be noted that the police himun qawm...

... on computers to generate and administer information, the conversion of paper documents into electronic files, rapid increases in computational storage, and the rise of the Internet are some of the many contingencies that have matured and aligned in the last half century. Leaks can now more easily be weaponized...

... Show , September 13, 2017. 3. “Steve Jobs Presents to the Cupertino City Council,” Internet Archive, archive.org/details/Steve_Jobs_Presents_to_the_Cupertino_City_Council_6_7_11 (accessed June 14, 2018). 4. Perhaps the two most visible examples of this reporting are Levy 2017...