Category: Nanocelebrities

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

The Era of the Nanocelebrity

The Era of the Nanocelebrity

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 …

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