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In today's society, the power of someone's reputation, or influence, has been turned into a job: that of being a social media influencer. This role comes with promises, such as aspirational work, but is rife with challenges, given the controversy that often surrounds influencers. This is the first book on the regulation of social media influencers, that brings together legal, economic and ethical angles to further unveil the implications of influencer marketing.

Thus far, influencers have been under scrutiny for not disclosing paid advertising, yet their activity has many more questionable implications. This edited volume combines insights from law, economics, ethics and communication science to reveal these implications and propose new ways in which public bodies, social media companies and citizens ought to relate to influencer marketing.

Academics and students of Law, Economics, Ethics and Communication Science will find policy making insights in this collection. In addition, The Regulation of Social Media Influencers will be essential reading for regulators.

Contributors include: E. Apa, M. de Cock Bunning, S. de Jans, M. de Veirman, R. Ducato, I. Ebert, C. Fieseler, C. Goanta, L. Hudders, M. Leiser, M. Leszczynska, D. Mangan, G. Newlands, F. Pflücke, O. Pollicino, S. Ranchordás, D. Sindermann, E. van den Abeele, S. van der Hof, G. van Dijck, V. Verdoodt, I. Wildhaber

In today?s society, the power of someone?s reputation, or influence, has been turned into a job: that of being a social media influencer. This role comes with promises, such as aspirational work, but is rife with challenges, given the controversy that often surrounds influencers. This is the first book on the regulation of social media influencers, that brings together legal, economic and ethical angles to further unveil the implications of influencer marketing.

dreamjob: navigating pathways to success as an aspiring Instagram influencer 167
Gemma Newlands and Christian Fieseler
8 Influencer marketing as labour: between the public and private divide 185
David Mangan

PART III CONSUMER DISCLOSURES AND CONTRACT LAW
9 Controlling influencer content through contracts: a qualitative empirical study on the Swiss influencer market 210
Catalina Goanta and Isabelle Wildhaber
10 One hashtag to rule them all? Mandated disclosures and design duties in influencer marketing practices 232
Rossana Ducato

PART IV SOCIAL MEDIA AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH DESIGN
11 Assessing the methodological quality of empirical research on social media influencers 275
Monika Leszczyńska and Gijs van Dijck
12 Making influencers honest: the role of social media platforms in regulating disclosures 299
Felix Pflücke

Index 323

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Contents:

1 The regulation of social media influencers: an introduction 1
Catalina Goanta and Sofia Ranchordás

PART I SOCIAL MEDIA, FREE SPEECH AND PUBLIC INTEREST
2 Free speech and the right of publicity on social media 22
Ernesto Apa and Oreste Pollicino
3 Life after the European Audiovisual Media Services Directive: social media influencers through the looking-glass 47
Madeleine de Cock Buning
4 An ethical view on influencer marketing ? dynamic interaction between individual and economy or a simple data-driven advertising model? 74
Isabel Ebert and Dana Sindermann
5 Child labour and online protection in a world of influencers 98
Valerie Verdoodt, Simone van der Hof and Mark Leiser

PART II INFLUENCER MARKETING AT WORK
6 Unravelling the power of social media influencers: a qualitative study on teenage influencers as commercial content creators on social media 126
Marijke De Veirman, Steffi De Jans, Elisabeth Van den Abeele and Liselot Hudders
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