Digital Influencers and Online Expertise: The Linguistic Power of Beauty Vloggers

ISBN-13: 9780367820565 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 168 str.

Aditi Bhatia

Opis

Based on data from beauty vlogs published by well-known YouTubers, Bhatia explores how they discursively negotiate multiple identities in a creative and participatory space, giving rise to complexities in the definition of categories such as expert, layperson, learner, and teacher in fluid and dynamic digital contexts.

In this insightful book, Bhatia sets out to investigate the interdiscursive construction of identity on YouTube. Taking a multi-methodological approach to Critical Discourse Analysis, Bhatia examines beauty vlogs at the levels of socio-cognition, language, and genre to provide a better understanding of some of the measures of success and effect as well as new practices of expertise in online communication. The book contributes to a better understanding of how young people work online, often collaboratively, to conform to or resist mainstream notions of expertise, authenticity, race, and beauty; as well as the linguistic and semiotic tools they use to perform their identity, in order to become digital entrepreneurs and cultural influencers.

Students and scholars in the field of discourse analysis, situated within the contexts of popular culture and social media, will find this book a valuable read. This volume also enhances the everyday person’s understanding of the complexities of new media communication and a new generation of cultural intermediaries.

Spis treści

1. The Interdiscursive World of Beauty Vlogging  2. A Multi-perspective Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis 3. Negotiating Amateur and Professional Expertise in Beauty Vlogs  4. The Joint Construction of Ethnicity in Beauty Vlogs  5. Curating Authenticity and Expertise in Beauty Vlogs  6. Future Directions

O autorze

Aditi Bhatia is Associate Professor of English at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.