If you don’t have anything substantive to say about Stanley Cohen’s ideas about society’s expressions of its worries about technology, or maybe want to claim that saying something like “Parents worried about new technology’s effects on their kids in other generations” is somehow a “fallacy” (instead of something pretty anodyne), well, in those cases, I can’t help you. I don’t know what discussion you think you’re missing, but I also don’t know what you think you were contributing.
If you want an actual discussion, you can respond to what I said before, otherwise, bless your heart.
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This is not Quora.
You are welcome to include your authority/credentials/whatever to back up statements in your post, however it is up to the reader to give that weight. We have no interest in “Your comments mean less than mine because X” posts here. Assume good faith, debate the position, weigh a posters reported credentials as you wish to, but do not use them as either a weapon nor a shield, please. Posts should be able to stand on their own merit.
Thanks.
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… an Instagram influencer…
This is off topic but –
Are only people who are popular on Instagram called “Influencer”…?
if so, why?
If not, what’s the decision-making involved in who’s deemed an “Inlfuencer”…?
I mean, sports players and pop stars and even reality celebs are influential in the zeitgeist - but we refer to them using the format they’re from - ie. “pop star” etc.
I think people popular on YouTube are called “YouTuber” –
So why aren’t popular Instagramers just called “Iinstagramer”…?
And who decided to call them “Influencer” and why do so many just go along with it?
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It’s just a marketing industry buzzword used across social media platforms to identify people with large followings on one or more of them – particularly those who don’t have any other claim to fame, but also traditional celebrities and athletes. For corporate America and the media-industrial complex, it’s just a convenient shorthand for a person with the potential to sell stuff (and sometimes ideas and policies) to a relatively large audience.
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I recognize like two names from that page. I gather that most of the rest are swimmers?
I guess I just don’t “get it.” I’m not “on board.” I don’t understand the “disruptive innovation.”
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I know its meaning and that it’s a p.r. buzzword – I just don’t get where exactly it came from and why journos go along with it no-questions-asked.
Basically, how I see it is, these people are Social Media Celebrities. Maybe SMC for short or So-Celebs or some more specific nickname. It should be that simple.
Why go along with using the “influencer” moniker when Jay Z or Kim Kardasian or any number of other-types of celebrities are way more of an “influencer” than any Instagram model - and the term does seem to more focused on Instagram celebs than other platforms.
It reminds me of how everyone blindly went along with calling Uber “ride-sharing” when it was a taxi-app - and nobody ever called taking a taxi “ride-sharing” before the Uber p.r. machine did its work.
Without understanding how it got into journalists style-guides and what its parameters are, It just seems weird and sheep-like to use the term in a serious fashion outside of, say, Instagram corporate offices.
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