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Original Articles

‘I Guess A Lot of People See Me as a Big Sister or a Friend’: the role of intimacy in the celebrification of beauty vloggers

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Pages 307-320 | Received 29 Jan 2016, Accepted 20 Dec 2016, Published online: 10 Apr 2017

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