- alice marwick, “the fabulous lives of micro-celebrities“
- (if interested and have time (ha!), here is the next chapter from her book status update, “self branding” (NOT NOT NOT required!)
- zuleyka zevallos, “the sociology of unfollowing on twitter”
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- marwick and boyd “I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately: Twitter users, context collapse, and the imagined audience” (at this point, you’re bored with “context collapse” but this is the key article on the topic, so i’m sharing it just in case you want to take a looksy. if you want to think about how power can force/create such a collapse, read this piece by davis & jurgenson, “context collapse: theorizing context collusions and collisions“)