Index

Cultures of Authenticity

ISBN: 978-1-80117-937-9, eISBN: 978-1-80117-936-2

Publication date: 21 November 2022

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(2022), "Index", Heřmanová, M., Skey, M. and Thurnell-Read, T. (Ed.) Cultures of Authenticity, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 333-340. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-936-220221025

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Copyright © 2023 Marie Heřmanová, Michael Skey and Thomas Thurnell-Read


INDEX

Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.

Abidin, Crystal
, 2, 6–7, 158, 162, 197–199, 212–214, 218, 238–242, 245

Academic scholarship
, 139

Action
, 38

Activity-based approach
, 23, 66

Advertising
, 181

confidence through postfeminist authenticity
, 185–186

Aesthetics in branding historical authenticity
, 99–101

Alt-right
, 295, 307, 315

Alternative Influence Network (AIN)
, 305

Alternative influencers
, 304–305

Alternative Political Commentators (APCs)
, 14, 303

emojis and emotes
, 309–310

on platforms
, 304

post-authentic engagement on YouTube and Twitch
, 307–309

US Election Day (2020)
, 310–318

on YouTube and Twitch
, 305–307

Amateurism
, 293

Anglo-American digital youth culture
, 308

Anthropology
, 82

Anthropomorphism
, 32–33

Antique
, 140

APIFY Instagram Scraper
, 237

Architectural phenomenology
, 35–36

Architecture
, 31

Artisan
, 83

Artistic creation
, 90

Audiences
, 196

Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ)
, 283

Authentic ‘consumer steward’ identity

findings
, 255–259

implications
, 261

method
, 254–255

theoretical background
, 252–254

Authentic advertising
, 185

Authentic brand love
, 128–130

Authentic change and negotiated authenticity
, 34–35

Authentic leadership
, 249

Authentic objects and living things
, 32–33

Authentic politicians
, 268

Authentic self-identification
, 126

Authentic selves
, 201

Authentic tourism experience
, 21

Authentic Womanhood
, 163

Authenticating acts
, 84

Authentication
, 47, 82

Authenticity
, 1, 9–10, 32, 158, 160–163, 167–170, 195, 211–212, 218–220, 233, 269, 276, 289

authentic things, places and people
, 6–8

binary in music subcultures
, 169

bind
, 234

in branding and consumption studies
, 83–86

branding in
, 90–91

citizen journalism and
, 292–294

as constructed illusion
, 269–270

contract
, 269

digital age of in/authenticity
, 5–6

dramas
, 3

equation of
, 168

gap
, 218

historic buildings
, 30

labour
, 221

marker
, 218

and modality
, 91–93

narrative
, 8–9

negotiations around
, 201–203

paradox
, 2–4

as political issue
, 270–272

producing and communicating
, 8–9

in reality television
, 196–198

seeking authenticity in times of uncertainty
, 4–5

in tourism studies
, 23–26

Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD)
, 45

Authoritative performances
, 84

Authority
, 240–241

Authorship
, 212–213

Auto-bibliographic inquiry
, 214

Axe
, 186–187

“Axe Effect” script
, 182

Barcelona Football Club
, 132

Batók tattoos
, 63–64, 70, 72–73

Bauman
, 251

Behind-the-scenes glimpses
, 238–240

Benjamin, Walter
, 5, 92–93, 100

Best a Man Can Be, The campaign
, 187–189

BetterTTV
, 314

Biographical authenticity
, 83

Black Lives Matter campaign
, 125

Brand authenticity
, 82–83

Branding
, 11–12, 90, 123, 200–205, 276

aesthetics in branding historical authenticity
, 99–101

authenticity in
, 83–86, 90–91

Carlsberg’s Website
, 93–99

modality
, 91–93

negotiations around
, 201–203

Brands
, 126, 218, 275

BreadTube
, 306

Breitbart, Andrew
, 295–296, 298

Brewing
, 95

Café
, 106, 108

Calculated authenticity
, 271

Calibrated amateurism
, 158, 222, 238–239

Campaigns
, 269

Carlsberg’s Website
, 93

historical references
, 94–95

rebrew project
, 95–99

Celebrification
, 196

Celebrities
, 1, 305

endorsers or bloggers
, 250

Character
, 32

China
, 44, 139

Chinese Nationalist Party (see Kuomintang (KM))

Citizen journalism
, 289, 290–292

and authenticity
, 292–294

definitions and characteristics
, 290

ideology of right and authenticity
, 297–299

media and (dis) trust
, 294

right wing and
, 295–297

Citizen journalists
, 290–291, 295–296, 298

Citizen witnessing
, 292

Clubs
, 125

Co-option
, 291

Cock rock
, 169–170, 173

Collaboration
, 259

Commercial lifestyle bloggers
, 212

Commercialism
, 174

Commitment
, 250

Commodification of mediated authenticity in digital age
, 219–221

Commodities
, 11–12, 83

Common people
, 277

Community
, 113, 115, 118, 128–130, 250

community-building strategy
, 239, 241

“Confident-appearing” pose
, 186

Conservation
, 30

Conservatism
, 294

Consistency
, 223, 268

Constructive authenticity
, 24

Consumer Culture Theory (CCT)
, 84

Consumer stewards
, 251, 254–255, 260

Consumer stewardship
, 254

Consumers
, 81, 128

Consumption
, 11–12, 184

Consumption studies, authenticity in
, 83–86

Consumption-based authenticity
, 82–84

Corporate history
, 89–90

Corporate identity construct
, 89

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
, 124, 132

Costume jewellery
, 141

Craft
, 6

Creativity
, 124

Creator
, 236–237, 237n2

Credibility
, 250

Cross-Strait Service Trade Agreement (CSSTA)
, 322n2

Cultural capital
, 5, 131, 140, 144, 152

Cultural goods
, 100

Cultural ideal of ‘authenticity’
, 160

Cultural legitimacy
, 141–142, 149–150

Culture
, 106–107, 158

Culture Seekers
, 71–73

Czech influencers
, 237

Czech Republic
, 238

Day9TV
, 255, 257–258

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP)
, 322

Digital age of in/authenticity
, 5–6

Digital identity labour
, 159

Digital media ecology
, 157

Discourse
, 45

Distrust
, 294

Dollar Shave Club (DSC)
, 189–190

Drag
, 195–196

brand or selling out
, 198–199

culture
, 195

persona
, 195

queens
, 196

Dream Crazier campaign
, 133

Dualisms
, 37

E-sports
, 251–252, 254

Education
, 291, 325

Election campaigns
, 276

Elite
, 277

Emo
, 168–170

authenticity construct in/of
, 171–176

challenging authenticity binary
, 176–178

methodology
, 170–171

Emo Trinity
, 170

Emo: How Fans Defined a Subculture
, 168

Emojis
, 309–310

Emotes
, 309–310

Emotions
, 280

Enli, Gunn
, 2, 235

Epic Meltdown of TYT
, 313

Ethnic tourism
, 66

Ethnography
, 47

European football
, 129

Existential authenticity
, 24, 66

Existentialist thinking
, 31

Experience of authenticity
, 35

Explorative mixed-methods approach
, 309

Expressive authenticity
, 82, 85

Expressive individualism
, 186

Facebook
, 5, 12, 69, 71, 73, 243

Factual television
, 197

Fake
, 244

Fall Out Boy (FOB)
, 168

MySpace
, 174

Fans/fan culture
, 128, 168

Fashion
, 219

Fashion jewellery (see Costume jewellery)

Feminine-coded username
, 175

Femininity
, 157–159

Feminism
, 161, 163

Feminist
, 159

“Find Your Magic” Campaign in 2016
, 183, 186–187

Flame war
, 313

Floating signifiers
, 315

Folk democratic authentication on digital heritage social media
, 53–58

4chan
, 172

FrankerFaceZ (FFZ)
, 314

GamerGate
, 183

Gatekeeping
, 168–169

Gender
, 160–163, 167–170, 183

politics of mediated authenticity
, 159

Gendered authenticity
, 234

bind
, 234

Gendered strategies of authenticity-building
, 241–243

Generations
, 322

Genre
, 167–170

Get Ready film
, 189–190

Gillette
, 187–189

Goffman, Erving
, 8, 197, 213, 220, 235, 278–279

Grooming advertisements
, 182

advertising confidence through postfeminist authenticity
, 185–186

case studies
, 186–190

confidence
, 191–192

performing masculinity
, 183–184

Grounded theory approach
, 309

Hard rock
, 167

HasanAbi on Twitch
, 314–318

Heritage
, 11, 29

authenticity
, 46

community
, 45

designation and evaluation
, 44

discourse
, 45–46

scholars
, 48

tourism
, 24, 66

Historic buildings
, 32

authenticity of
, 30

conservation
, 33

Historical specificity
, 145–148

History
, 89

Home
, 110

Honesty
, 240–241

Hot authentication
, 47

Hotdog
, 204n2

Iconic authenticity
, 91

Identity

under AHD and heritage authenticity
, 51–53

authentication as authenticity
, 46–47

IKEA
, 110

Immediacy
, 280

Impression management
, 221, 278

Inauthenticity
, 127–128

Indexical authenticity
, 91

Indexicality
, 91

Influencers
, 211, 218, 220–221, 233–234, 236, 237n2

Instagram
, 217, 234

authenticity and performance on social media
, 235–237

elements of influencer content on
, 219

gendered strategies of authenticity-building
, 241–243

honesty, integrity and authority
, 240–241

markers of authenticity on social media
, 221–223

methodology and context of research
, 237–238

negotiating authenticity and commerce
, 226–228

presence on
, 223–225

self-expression and commodification of mediated authenticity in digital age
, 219–221

#Unfiltered photos and behind-the-scenes glimpses
, 238–240

“Instagram vs. reality” trope
, 238

Instagramism
, 222

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH)
, 11, 43–44

designation and assessment
, 50–51

findings
, 50–58

folk democratic authentication on digital heritage social media
, 53–58

identity under AHD and heritage authenticity
, 51–53

methodology
, 47–50

official authentication and orthodox authenticity discourse in Nüshu
, 50

theoretical framework
, 45–47

Integrity
, 240–241, 269

Intergenerational analysis

analyses of unconventional politicians and authenticity
, 325–330

breaking of authenticity contracts
, 330–331

mediated and performed authenticity
, 322–323

methodology
, 323–325

International Boxing Federation (IBF)
, 127

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
, 29–30, 36

Interpretation model
, 73

Intimacy
, 222, 279–280

Journalists
, 293

Kalinga culture
, 66

Kuomintang (KM)
, 321n1

Language
, 23–24

Leagues
, 125

Left-wing APCs
, 306

Lifestyle
, 219

Lindholm, Charles
, 4, 6–7, 64, 70, 74

LINE
, 327

Liquid modernity
, 252

Liquid’ identity
, 251

Liquidity
, 252–253

in late modernity
, 253

LiveJournal
, 171, 176

Liverpool Football Club
, 125

Locus
, 37–38

London
, 106

LowkoTV
, 255

MacCannell, Dean
, 1, 6, 8, 21–22

Mafia
, 109n2

Mainstream media
, 277

Male grooming
, 189

Manchester United (UK football team)
, 127

Manufactured authenticity
, 182

Manufacturing
, 128

Marketing
, 83

Masculinism
, 167, 170

critique
, 176–178

Masculinity
, 161–162, 167, 182

Mass coordinated displays
, 129

Material authenticity
, 82–83

Materiality
, 146

Materials
, 32, 84–85

Media
, 158–159, 160–163, 294

aesthetics
, 90

consumers
, 297–298

Mediated (extra) ordinariness
, 222

Mediated authenticity
, 278, 322–323

Mediated political authenticity
, 268

Men as opinion-leaders
, 240–241

#MeToo movement
, 161–162, 187

Metrosexual moment
, 184

Mixed-method analysis
, 218–219

Modality
, 91–93

Moscow
, 12

Multiple authenticities
, 107

Music
, 167–168

My Chemical Romance (MCR)
, 168, 176

Mythical role preferences
, 253

Narrative theory of conservation
, 34

Naturalistic coding orientation
, 93

Negotiated authenticity
, 34–35

Neoliberal brand culture
, 182

Netflix
, 196

Netnography
, 254

New Power Party (NPP)
, 322n3

New questions
, 25–26

New York
, 296

Nike
, 125, 128

No Sense of Place (1985)
, 198

No-filter strategy
, 240

Non-fungible tokens (NFT)
, 215

Nüshu
, 11, 43

culture
, 47

official authentication and orthodox authenticity discourse in
, 50

scripts
, 44

Nüshu Biography
, 56

Nüshu Cultural Research and Management Centre (NCRMC)
, 50–51

Nüshu Custom
, 44

Nüshu Transmitter
, 52

Objective authenticity
, 24, 32, 34, 65

Office Mountaineers
, 70–71

Offline ethnography
, 47–49

Olympics
, 131

Online
, 211

Online consumer communities
, 251

Online culture
, 308

Online ethnography
, 47–49

Opinion-leading strategy
, 241

Oppositional authenticity
, 3

Ordinariness
, 280

Ordinary people
, 277

Overbranding, negotiations around
, 201–203

Panic! At the Disco (Panic)
, 168

Paramount+
, 196

Participation
, 37

Participatory journalism
, 291

Patagonia
, 125

People
, 277

Pepe the Frog
, 314

Perceived authenticity
, 278

Perceived political authenticity
, 268

Performance
, 213, 234

Performative authenticity
, 37–38

Performativity
, 24–25

Performed authenticity
, 278, 322–323

Performed political authenticity
, 268

Persistence of masculinism
, 167, 170

Personal authenticity
, 82–83, 85

Personal ethics
, 250

Personal meaning-making
, 126

Philippines
, 63

PiG
, 255, 257–258

Place
, 11, 22–23

Pocket Poetry
, 107

Policy analysis
, 50

Political authenticity
, 267, 278–280, 322

Political brand
, 275

Political campaigns
, 270

Political communication research, authenticity as analytic concept in
, 268–270

Political influencers
, 305

Political marketing
, 276

Politicians
, 268–269

Politics
, 267

and political communication
, 14

Popular culture
, 12–13

Populism
, 271, 276–277, 293

Populist anti-elitism
, 282

Populist leadership and representation
, 283–285

Populist performance
, 276–278

Populist style, authenticity in
, 280–283

Porous authenticity
, 238

Post-authentic engagement
, 304

on YouTube and Twitch
, 307–309

Post-authenticity
, 305

Postfeminism
, 191

Postfeminist authenticity, advertising confidence through
, 185–186

Postmodern authenticity
, 24

Presidential elections
, 303

Production
, 26

Professionalization
, 236

Public relations
, 8, 189, 191

QAnon conspiracy theory movement
, 298–299

Queer influencers
, 199

Quiksilver
, 124

Real emo
, 173–174

Real people
, 277

Real real emo copypasta
, 176

Reality TV
, 195–196

authenticity in
, 197

preparing brand for
, 204

Rebranding
, 204–205

Rebrew project (1883)
, 95–99

Red Bull
, 130

Rees’ Authentic Brand Wheel
, 125

Relationality
, 24–25

Representative Transmitters
, 50–51

“Rhetoric of real” in advertising
, 182

Right wing
, 295–297

APCs
, 306

populism
, 276

Rousseau, Jean Jacques
, 4, 7

Running Club apps
, 126

RuPaul’s Drag Race (RPDR)
, 196, 199–200

authenticity in reality television
, 196–198

drag brand or selling out
, 198–199

showcases for authenticity and branding
, 200–205

Russia
, 106

Scarcity
, 144–145

Self-awareness
, 250

Self-branding
, 257

Self-expression
, 219–221

Self-identification
, 124, 128–130

Self-identity
, 219–220

Self-making
, 31

Self-presentation
, 81, 86, 185, 224, 278

Sexuality
, 169, 172

Shouting
, 129

Similarity
, 258–259

Sincerity
, 124

of motive
, 85

Singing
, 129

Skateboarding in Tokyo 2020 Olympics
, 131

Social Democratic Party (SDP)
, 322n3

Social meaning
, 141–142, 148–149

Social media
, 13, 170, 211, 276, 307, 323

authenticity and performance on
, 235–237

for heritage-making
, 54

markers of authenticity on
, 221–223

organizers
, 55

profiles
, 68

sites
, 73

Social media influencer (SMI)
, 198–199

Social networks
, 279

Social resonance
, 81

Social semiotics
, 91–92

Solid structures
, 253–254

Spirit of place (genius loci)
, 31

authentic change and negotiated authenticity
, 34–35

authentic objects and living things
, 32–33

negotiating
, 35–37

performative authenticity
, 37–38

Sponsorship
, 199

Sport Social Responsibility (SSR)
, 133

Sporting organisations
, 125

Sports brands
, 123

authentic brand love, self-identification and communities
, 128–130

authenticity
, 124–126

manifestation of authenticity in
, 126–128

sport as authentic cultural phenomenon
, 130–131

sport brand-building programmes
, 127

sport social responsibility, authenticity and activism
, 132–134

Sports organisations
, 126

Staged authenticity
, 213

theory
, 21

Stakeholder
, 43

StarCraft II brand community
, 252, 255

Stewards
, 251

Strategic authenticity
, 268

Strategic political authenticity

authenticity in populist style
, 280–283

political authenticity
, 278–280

populist leadership and representation
, 283–285

populist performance
, 276–278

Strategies influencers
, 234

Subcultures
, 85

Sunflower Movement (2014)
, 321–322

Super League plan
, 129

Super-honesty
, 30

Swansea City Football Club in UK
, 125

Symbolic interactionism
, 278

Taiwan
, 321

Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC)
, 325

Taiwan People’s Party (TPP)
, 325n9

Taiwanese society
, 321

Taste
, 140

Tattoos
, 64

authenticity, heritage and tourism development
, 65–67

hermeneutic circle of tourism authenticity
, 73

methods and context
, 67–68

typology of tattoo pilgrims
, 68–73

Taylor, Ian
, 65, 90

Television
, 161, 197

Tencent QQ
, 48n3

Textual “markers of authenticity”
, 219

The Young Turks (TYT)
, 306, 310

Theoplacity
, 25

TikTok
, 5

Total Request Live (TRL)
, 175

Tourism
, 11, 66

places
, 22–23

Tourism studies
, 21

authenticity in
, 23–26

Tourist gaze
, 66

Tourists
, 25, 64

Training Club apps
, 126

Transparency
, 223, 250

Transphobia
, 163

Travel
, 23

Treehouse
, 108

Trend chasers
, 68–70

Triplet of ordinates
, 30, 32

Trump, Donald
, 183

Tumblr blogs
, 176–177

Tverskaya Branch
, 111

Twitch
, 303–304

APCs on
, 305–307

post-authentic engagement on
, 307–309

Twitter
, 5, 204, 284

Uncertainty. seeking authenticity in times of
, 4–5

#Unfiltered photos
, 238–240

Uniqueness
, 142–144, 257–258

US Election Day (2020)
, 310–318

US politics
, 304

User-generated contents (UGC)
, 54, 235, 291

VH1
, 196

Victimhood
, 161–162

Vintage consumption
, 140

Vintage costume jewellery (VCJ)
, 140–141

authenticity and value of VCJ to Chinese consumers
, 141–150

methods and context
, 141

Vintage Duette Brooch
, 143

Visual rhetoric
, 93

Visual-material rhetoric analysis
, 107

Voters
, 271–272

Voting
, 272

WeChat
, 48

WeChat Official Account
, 48

Whang-od
, 63–64

brand
, 69

signature
, 67

Wild boars
, 68

Women as community-builders
, 238–240

Word of mouth (WOM)
, 129

World Boxing Association (WBA)
, 127

World Boxing Council (WBC)
, 127

World Boxing Organisation (WBO)
, 127

Writing
, 43

#YesAllWomen hashtag
, 183, 186

Young Turks on Election Day
, 311–314

YouTube
, 255, 303–304

APCs on
, 305–307

post-authentic engagement on
, 307–309

YouTube Live
, 307

Ziferblat
, 105–106

ethnographic snapshot
, 107

history
, 107–110

in London
, 113–115

in Manchester
, 115–118

in Moscow
, 110–113

Zukin, Sharon
, 7, 90, 106

Prelims
Chapter 1: Introduction: Cultures of Authenticity
Part I: Tourism, Heritage and Place
Chapter 2: Authenticity in Tourism Studies
Chapter 3: Negotiating the Spirit of Place: Towards a Performative Authenticity of Historic Buildings
Chapter 4: Authenticity Issues in Nüshu Cultural Heritage in China: Authentication, Discourse, and Identity-Making
Chapter 5: Permanent Souvenirs: Traditional Tattoos and the Search for Authenticity in the Northern Philippines
Part II: Branding, Consumption and Commodities
Chapter 6: Authenticity in Material Culture, Consumption and Branding
Chapter 7: Past and Present in Branding Authenticity: The Taste of History
Chapter 8: One Brand, Multiple Authenticities: The Case of the World’s First Pay-Per-Minute Cafe Franchise
Chapter 9: Authentic Sports Branding in the Digital Age
Chapter 10: Authenticity, Distinction and Value in the Narratives of Chinese Consumers of Vintage Costume Jewellery
Part III: Popular Culture
Chapter 11: Gender and Authenticity in Contemporary Popular Culture and Advertising
Chapter 12: Authenticity After Cock Rock: Emo and the Problem of Femininity
Chapter 13: ‘The Best a Man Can Be?’: Finding a Place for the ‘Real’ Man in Grooming Advertisements
Chapter 14: Keeping It Real? Dynamics of Authenticity and Branding in RuPaul’s Drag Race
Part IV: Social Media
Chapter 15: What I Talk About When I Talk About Authenticity: An Auto-Bibliographic Inquiry
Chapter 16: The Authenticity Gap: How Influencers Commodify Authenticity on Instagram
Chapter 17: ‘I’m Always Telling You My Honest Opinion’: Influencers and Gendered Authenticity Strategies on Instagram
Chapter 18: Liquid Figures, Solid Structures: The Pursuit of an Authentic ‘Consumer Steward’ Identity in Online Communities
Part V: Politics and Political Communication
Chapter 19: Authenticity in Politics and Political Communication Research: Analytic Concept and Political Issue
Chapter 20: Strategic Political Authenticity: How Populists Construct an Authentic Image
Chapter 21: Right Wing Co-option of the Perceived Authenticity of Citizen Journalism
Chapter 22: Post-Authentic Engagement with Alternative Political Commentary on YouTube and Twitch
Chapter 23: Exploring ‘the Authentic’ in Taiwanese Politics: An Intergenerational Analysis
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