#digitalfame
“The celebrity is a person who is well-known for his well-knownness” —Daniel Boorstin
“I love Twitter.” —Paris Hilton
#digitalfame is a Haverford Student Seminar sponsored by the Hurford Humanities Center. The seminar seeks to explore what it means to be a celebrity and the cultural half-life of fame in the age of condensing Warhol’s “fifteen minutes” into a single viral moment. We will examine the various ways in which individuals can transition between these two dispositions (individual/celebrity). How can one establish himself as “celebrity” through production strictly through Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, YouTube, etc?