Virtual Influencers : Identity and Digitality in the Age of Multiple Realities (Paperback)

Introduction: Virtual Influencers of the New Millennium

1. ?Genealogy of Virtual Influencers: intersecting cultures, industries and technologies

2. ?Where Are You Really From? Nationalised Virtualities in the Age of Liquid Reality

3. Intracommunicative Virtual Emotionality: fictional truths, virtual parasociality and the intimacy of affective echo-chambers

4. ?Im/materialities of Virtual Everyday Life: born-virtual objects, virtual temporalities and the banal

5. Virtual Biocapitalism: digital skin, ‘melanin’ and racialised biodata

6. ?Pandemic Uncanny Valley: un-biology, the fear of ‘unclean biology’, and the necropolitics of virtuality

7. ?Virtual Mimesis and Transmedial Mobility: from digital Polaroids, to AI influencers and Vtuber communities

8. ?Behind Every Successful Virtual Influencer, There is a Human: the political economy of virtual influencers

Conclusion: A Thematic Anatomy of Virtual Influencers: past, present and into the future