"Who Do You Think You Are?": When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity
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Date
2015-04
Authors
Cottom, Tressie McMillan
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Fembot Collective
Abstract
Populists and capitalists conceptualize academic public
writing as a democratizing process. I argue that interlocking
structures of oppression contour neoliberal academic appeals for
public scholarship. Using data from a public academic blog, I
conceptualize the attention economy as stratified by attenuated
status groups. I also discuss the methodological promise of digital
texts for sociological inquiry.
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23 pages
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McMillan Cottom, T. (2015) “Who Do You Think You Are?”: When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity. Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.7. doi:10.7264/N3319T5T (http://dx.doi.org/10.7264/N3319T5T)