No filter: navigating well-being in troubled times as social media influencers
| dc.contributor.author | Levesque, Nataly | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hachey, Alysha | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pergelova, Albena | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-08T20:36:50Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-08T20:36:50Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Social media influencers have the ability to impact the behaviours and attitudes of others (i.e., their followers), affecting people’s feelings of connectedness, and well-being. This has become particularly apparent during troubled times such as the COVID-19 pandemic, which has highlighted the importance of relationships and social interactions for people’s well-being. However, less attention has been paid to influencers’ own well-being in a monetised attention economy, which imposes tensions between the desire for authenticity and the self-presentations of influencers in online interactions. Using in-depth interviews and netnography as methodology, in this study we examine how the decision to engage with the topic of COVID-19 on social media impacted influencers’ well-being during the pandemic. We build on self-determination theory to reveal how the contentious nature of the subject led to internal struggles of influencers’ self-presentation, and elucidate how influencers navigated the boundaries of autonomy, competence, and relatedness in a quest for well-being. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Levesque, N., Hachey, A., & Pergelova, A. (2023). No filter: Navigating well-being in troubled times as social media influencers. Journal of Marketing Management. 39(11-12), 1098-1131. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2023.2218858 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257X.2023.2218858 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14078/3417 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | social media influencers | |
| dc.subject | troubled times | |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 | |
| dc.subject | well-being | |
| dc.subject | self-determination theory | |
| dc.subject | autonomy | |
| dc.subject | relatedness | |
| dc.subject | competence | |
| dc.title | No filter: navigating well-being in troubled times as social media influencers | en |
| dc.type | Article Post-Print | |
| local.embargo.enddate | December 13, 2024 |
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