Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet : Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging, Hardback Book

Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet : Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging Hardback

Hardback

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours

Description

In the first ever book devoted to a critical investigation of the personal style blogosphere, Minh-Ha T.

Pham examines the phenomenal rise of elite Asian bloggers who have made a career of posting photographs of themselves wearing clothes on the Internet.

Pham understands their online activities as "taste work" practices that generate myriad forms of capital for superbloggers and the brands they feature.

A multifaceted and detailed analysis, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet addresses questions concerning the status and meaning of "Asian taste" in the early twenty-first century, the kinds of cultural and economic work Asian tastes do, and the fashion public and industry's appetite for certain kinds of racialized eliteness.

Situating blogging within the historical context of gendered and racialized fashion work while being attentive to the broader cultural, technological, and economic shifts in global consumer capitalism, Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet has profound implications for understanding the changing and enduring dynamics of race, gender, and class in shaping some of the most popular work practices and spaces of the digital fashion media economy.

Information

Other Formats

Save 6%

£92.00

£85.99

Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information