{"id":5245,"date":"2025-04-23T19:16:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2025-04-23T19:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T11:17:59","slug":"celebrity-driven-digital-activism-performance-without-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5245\/celebrity-driven-digital-activism-performance-without-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrity-Driven Digital Activism: Performance Without Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract\n\n\n\nThis paper examines the nature of celebrity-driven digital activism in contemporary social movements. While celebrity involvement has dramatically increased the visibility of social causes through social media platforms, this research argues that such involvement ultimately undermines genuine social change through three key mechanisms: the commodification of movements, the prioritisation of performance over policy, and the replacement of sustained community organizing with episodic viral <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/onsc\/5245\/celebrity-driven-digital-activism-performance-without-progress\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract This paper examines the nature of celebrity-driven digital activism in contemporary social movements. While celebrity involvement has dramatically increased the visibility of social causes through social media platforms, this research argues that such involvement ultimately undermines genuine social change through three key mechanisms: the commodification of movements, the prioritisation of performance over policy, and the replacement of sustained community organizing with episodic viral &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onsc"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5250,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}