These series of posts came from nanocelebrity.com from 2009-2012. This site explored the idea if expertise come drive celebrity culture.
What is a nanocelebrity?
An individual who is promote him or herself on the media and channels that are available to her or him and broadcasts that presentation to the general public and generally has an audience under a thousand. Read more…
“It’s impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.”
– William Gibson
It is very easy to dismiss the concept of the nanocelebrity if you do not take into account several of the factors that make online socialization different from traditional socialization and traditional mediation. Lev Grossman began to explore these factors when Time named “You” the Person of the Year in 2006. He begins his article …
Theresa Senft and Clive Thompson first put out the idea of the microcelebrity a few years ago, an individual who is promote him or herself on the media and channels that are available to her or him and broadcasts that presentation to the general public and generally has an audience in the thousands. A microcelebrity …