Fashion bloggers and Instagrammers seem to enjoy a coveted lifestyle–one replete with international jet-setting, designer-comped fetes, and countless other caption-worthy moments. Yet the attention lavished on these so-called “influencers” draws attention away from a much larger class of social media content creators: those aspiring to “make it” amid a precarious, hyper-competitive creative economy. I tell […]
Brooke Erin Duffy
Brooke Erin Duffy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. She is the author of "(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work" (Yale University Press, 2017) and "Remake, Remodel: Women’s Magazines in the Digital Age" (University of Illinois Press, 2013).
bduffy@cornell.edu