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Does "Internet Famous" Mean Famous?
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May 20, 2011
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Research shows hierarchical groups are more likely to use the internet as a platform. This might be counterintuitive, as the original rise of the internet coincided with events like the toppling of top-down structures.Despite the strong belief that the internet is horizontal, these hierarchical systems achieve high levels of online participation.
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JEN SCHRADIE
Jen Schradie is a sociologist and Assistant Professor at the Observatoire sociologique du changement at Sciences Po in Paris. Her work has been featured on CNN and the BBC and in the New Yorker, the Washington Post, Time, the Daily Beast, and Buzzfeed, among other media. She was awarded the Public Sociology Alumni Prize at University of California, Berkeley, and has directed six documentary films. She is the author of The Revolution That Wasn't: How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives (2019).
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