Cultural Experts and Communicative Capitalism: Transformation of Communicative Practices

Abstract: This paper, attempted to answer, how, in the age of totalizing mediated communication, the role of a cultural expert (i.e. a person with knowledge and competence for interpreting the cultural phenomena encountered by a non-reflexive person in everyday life) is transformed. Terms ‘communicative capitalism’ and ‘digital labour’ were used in this study. Through analyzing the communicative behavior of three Russian cultural experts (spe-cializing in fashion, cinematography, and music) on their Instagram and Facebook pages authors identified typical linguistic and extra-linguistic practices of attracting and enclosing of Internet audience attention, multiplying of their communicative capital and monetizing it

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; In: Media Watch ; 8 (2017) 3 ; 438-450

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (who): SSOAR, GESIS – Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften e.V.
• (when): 2017
• Creator: Dekalov, Vladislav ; Kristina, Grigoryeva ; Dina, Uskova

Further information

• DOI: 10.15655/mw/2017/v8i1/49155
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022091208293483743908
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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