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Celebrity, Inc.: the self as work in the era of presentational culture online

Jessica E. JohnstonEnglish Department, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wis, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 508-511 | Accepted 01 Sep 2020, Published online: 27 Oct 2020

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