The YouTube ‘Stars’

http://chadlaz.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/leave-britney-alone/

This post was very engaging, especially in the way it used links to YouTube videos and hyperlinks. The author explored the issue of whether DIY or YouTube ‘personalities can break through online obstacles and become ‘celebrities’ in the ‘real’ world’.

He did it using both genuine examples, like Chris Crocker and Alexis Jordan, as well as explaining the theory espoused by Burgess and Green (2009), and their assertion that YouTube celebrities are not ‘celebrities’ in the real-world sense [of the word]’.