Imagined Affordances of Instagram and the Fantastical Authenticity of Female Gulf-Arab Social Media Influencers
This study explores the image sharing site Instagram to reveal how affordances, or uses of the platform, occur within a nexus of technological architecture, sociocultural contexts, and globalized commercial practices. It suggests social actors draw upon Instagram’s affordances at material, conceptua...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2019-01-01
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Series: | Social Media + Society |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118819241 |