Abstract
Utilizing the #MeToo movement as its case, this article examines celebrities’ symbolic power using social media’s connectivity to enlarge the impact of social causes. This article adopts social network analysis as the primary method to explore the relationship between two #MeToo networks and media coverage regarding celebrities’ roles. Based on theories of social capital and celebrity capital, the results of this article find that famous people’s symbolic power in one social field can transfer into the social activism field through investment in their celebrity capital and social capital.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 5403-5422 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | New Media and Society |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 9 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 2024 |
Keywords
- Celebrity capital
- field migration
- network analysis
- online activism
- social capital
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Sociology and Political Science