“Aren’t These Just Young, Rich Women Doing Vain Things Online?”: Influencer Selfies as Subversive Frivolity

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“Aren’t These Just Young, Rich Women Doing Vain Things Online?”: Influencer Selfies as Subversive Frivolity

Taking seriously the global trend of selfies becoming marketable and entangled in ecologies of commerce, this article looks at Influencers who have emerged as (semi-)professional selfie-producers and for whom taking selfies is a purposively commercial, thoughtful, and subversive endeavor. Based on i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Abidin, Crystal
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD 2016
Subjects:	Social Sciences Communication selfies social media Instagram Influencer gendered labor Singapore
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/79388

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