Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Influencer FactoryCondition: NewSubtitle: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTubeISBN-10: 1503637921EAN: 9781503637924ISBN: 9781503637924Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/16/2024Description: Influencers are more than social media personalities who attract attention for brands, argue Grant Bollmer and Katherine Guinness. They are figures of a new transformation in capitalism, in which the logic of the self is indistinguishable from the logic of the corporation. Influencers are emblematic of what Bollmer and Guinness call the "Corpocene": a moment in capitalism in which individuals achieve the status of living, breathing, talking corporations. Behind the veneer of leisure and indulgence, most influencers are laboring daily, usually for pittance wages, to manufacture a commodity called "the self"—a raw material for brands to use—with the dream of becoming corporations in human form by owning and investing in the products they sell. Refuting the theory that digital labor and economies are immaterial, Bollmer and Guinness search influencer content for evidence of the material infrastructure of capitalism. Each chapter looks to what literally appears in the backgrounds of videos and images: the houses, cars, warehouses, and spaces of the market that point back to the manufacturing and circulation of consumer goods. Demonstrating the material reality of producing the self as a commodity, The Influencer Factory makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of contemporary economic life. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Grant Bollmer, Katherine GuinnessGenre: Films & TVTopic: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2024 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Influencer Factory
Title: The Influencer Factory
Subtitle: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube
ISBN-10: 1503637921
EAN: 9781503637924
ISBN: 9781503637924
Release Date: 04/16/2024
Release Year: 2024
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Films & TV
Topic: Society & Culture
Number of Pages: 254 Pages
Publication Name: Influencer Factory : a Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on Youtube
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Media Studies, Sociology / General, Semiotics & Theory, Film / History & Criticism
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Katherine Guinness, Grant Bollmer
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Performing Arts, Social Science
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
