Authenticity as Performativity on Social Media

By: Taylor, Allan S.

​Authenticity is a highly-prized concept on social media, but given the history of the term, has it been adequately scrutinised? This book provides an alternative definition of authentic social media practice and suggests that, rather than being an achievable ideal, authenticity reveals itself as an unrepeatable temporary interval.

Applying a post-structural lens of performativity, Taylor analyses the resurgence of the authentic as a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031121503
• ISBN13: 9783031121500
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"