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Cultural Experts and Communicative Capitalism: Transformation of Communicative Practices
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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 capit... view more
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.... view less
Classification
Communicator Research, Journalism
Free Keywords
communicative capitalism; digital labour; symbolic capital; postmodern culture; social networks
Document language
English
Publication Year
2017
Page/Pages
p. 438-450
Journal
Media Watch, 8 (2017) 3
ISSN
0976-0911
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0