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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zoe Hurley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118819241