#Kanyeshrug: Kanye West's tweets as an example of Twitter as a performative text
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- February 28, 2019
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Beaton, Alexandra A.
- Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
- Abstract
- Kanye West's adoption of Twitter exemplifies the microblogging social networking site as a performative text. The site's public nature and interactive functions allow a user's words to serve as more than a statement. West's account shows that Twitter functions as an effective public relations tool, as well as a virtual performance stage, creating a greater difference between public figures and non-famous users. Successive stream-of-consciousness tweets allow the user to transcend the limiting space of a single tweet. Finally, tweets become source for entertainment and parody, emphasizing that a user creates a distinct voice with Twitter that is part of a curated digital extension of self.
- Date of publication
- July 2011
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- In Copyright
- Advisor
- Shaw, Ryan
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 45
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- abb1808a-3405-4d7b-866b-f35807dc08b2
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- Open access
- Date uploaded
- March 6, 2013
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