{"title":"musical.ly and Microcelebrity Among Girls","authors":"Burcu Şimşek, C. Abidin, M. L. Brown","doi":"10.1108/978-1-78756-749-820181004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter investigates the dynamics of teenage girls' musical.ly productions in relation to microcelebrity inspirations and (non)aspirations, and centrally details the mixed methodologies involved in the research process. The analysis focuses on the flow of the musical.ly app as evidenced through the walk-through method and young girls' engagements with the platform as solicited through personal observations and two small focus group discussions.","PeriodicalId":404490,"journal":{"name":"Microcelebrity Around the Globe","volume":"362 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2018-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"5","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Microcelebrity Around the Globe","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78756-749-820181004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This chapter investigates the dynamics of teenage girls' musical.ly productions in relation to microcelebrity inspirations and (non)aspirations, and centrally details the mixed methodologies involved in the research process. The analysis focuses on the flow of the musical.ly app as evidenced through the walk-through method and young girls' engagements with the platform as solicited through personal observations and two small focus group discussions.