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“Who Do You Think You Are?”: When Marginality Meets Academic Microcelebrity

Year: 2015
Type: article
Abstract: Populists and capitalists conceptualize academic public \nwriting as a democratizing process. I argue that interlocking \nstructures of oppression contour neoliberal academic appeals for \npublic scholarship. Using data from a public academic blog, I \nconceptualize the attention economy as stratified by attenuated \nstatus groups. I also discuss the methodological promise of digital \ntexts for sociological inquiry.
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W268394427
FWCI: 11.02
Cites: 1
Cited by: 61
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