In this review of the literature on reputation, status, celebrity, and stigma we develop an
overarching theoretical framework based on the rational, emotional, and moral aspects of …

Despite substantial work in a variety of disciplines, substantive areas, and geographical
contexts, social memory studies is a nonparadigmatic, transdisciplinary, centerless …

The digital age has given rise to new pathways for everyday individuals to accrue media
attention, which can be translated into promotional endeavors. Such sociocultural currency …

The rise of social media is changing how evaluative judgments about organizations are
produced and disseminated in the public domain. In this article we discuss how these …

This article discusses the temporal changes in celebrity culture occasioned by the
dissemination of digital media, social network sites, and video-sharing platforms, arguing …

This study explores the industrial underpinning and the cultural logic of social media
celebrity. Social media visibility may be considered as an alternative way to fame as it …

While fame has existed for centuries, celebrity is inextricably linked to media. This chapter
uses examples from a popular social media technologies to analyze how the particular …

While several critics have analyzed the rise of the “micro‐celebrity” in the online era, few
have worked to historicize the developments. Assessments of “micro‐celebrity” also tend to …

The proliferation of visual media worldwide during the past 50 years has made mediated
personalities, both real people and fictional characters, powerful agents of social change …

Social media technologies let people connect by creating and sharing content. We examine
the use of Twitter by famous people to conceptualize celebrity as a practice. On Twitter …