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 ldquo;taste workrdquo; 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 ldquo;Asian tasterdquo; in the early twenty-first century; the kinds of cultural and economic work Asian tastes do; and the fashion public and industryrsquo;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.
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