Bishop, S. orcid.org/0000-0003-1028-8821 (2023) Influencer creep: How artists strategically navigate the platformisation of art worlds. New Media & Society. ISSN 1461-4448
Abstract
This article uses qualitative empirical research to explore the ways that Instagram has shaped both artistic labour and artistic practice. I draw from sociological perspectives on art worlds, critical platformisation literature and feminist cultural studies to argue that influencer cultures have originated key social practices that now animate creative labour more broadly. This process is defined as influencer creep. Influencer creep has the following three key tenets – self-branding, optimisation and authenticity. The article shows how artists draw from self-branding techniques rooted within influencer cultures, take up strategic techniques of algorithmic optimisation and share more of their authentic (yet highly stylised) selves online. I conclude that influencer creep has generated accelerated demands to consistently perform and maintain an artistic identity across social media platforms, which deepens well-documented existing inequalities in cultural and creative work.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2023. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Algorithms; art worlds; authenticity; creative labour; social media platforms |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number META (previously Facebook, Inc.) None Given |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 May 2024 08:58 |
Last Modified: | 03 May 2024 08:58 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14614448231206090 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:212225 |