The online place of popular music: Exploring the impact of geography and social media on pop artists’ mainstream media attention
@article{Verboord2016TheOP, title={The online place of popular music: Exploring the impact of geography and social media on pop artists’ mainstream media attention}, author={Marc Verboord and S. van Noord}, journal={Popular Communication}, year={2016}, volume={14}, pages={59 - 72} }
Many authors have pointed to the internet’s potential to increase connectivity across the world, which would imply an equalizing effect, yet few researchers have examined this. At the same time, the increasing usage of social media by popular culture celebrities for self-promotion has been signaled. We study the extent to which social media can reduce inequalities in mainstream media attention between artists from central cities in popular music production (e.g., New York, London) versus more…
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