Crystal Abidin

Crystal Abidin

Curtin University

H-index: 32

Oceania-Australia

About Crystal Abidin

Crystal Abidin, With an exceptional h-index of 32 and a recent h-index of 31 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Curtin University, specializes in the field of Influencers, Internet celebrity, Social media pop culture.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Backdoor advertising scandals, Yingyeo culture, and cancel culture among YouTube Influencers in South Korea

Introduction to the Media International Australia special issue on “TikTok cultures in the Asia Pacific”

Child influencers: How children have become entangled with social media commerce

Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia

When brands become Stans: Netflix, originals, and enacting a fannish persona on Instagram

TeachTok: Teachers of TikTok, micro-celebrification, and fun learning communities

K-pop TikTok: TikTok's expansion into South Korea, TikTok Stage, and platformed glocalization

Introduction to the special issue of “TikTok and social movements”

Crystal Abidin Information

University

Position

Associate Professor Principal Research Fellow & ARC DECRA Fellow in Internet Studies

Citations(all)

6971

Citations(since 2020)

6241

Cited By

2261

hIndex(all)

32

hIndex(since 2020)

31

i10Index(all)

51

i10Index(since 2020)

49

Email

University Profile Page

Curtin University

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Crystal Abidin Skills & Research Interests

Influencers

Internet celebrity

Social media pop culture

Top articles of Crystal Abidin

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Backdoor advertising scandals, Yingyeo culture, and cancel culture among YouTube Influencers in South Korea

New Media & Society

Jin Lee

Crystal Abidin

2024/1

Introduction to the Media International Australia special issue on “TikTok cultures in the Asia Pacific”

Media International Australia

Crystal Abidin

Jin Lee

D Bondy Valdovinos Kaye

2023/2

Child influencers: How children have become entangled with social media commerce

AQ-Australian Quarterly

Crystal Abidin

2023/7/1

Influencer regulations, governance and sociocultural issues in Asia

Crystal Abidin

Jian Xu

Jonathon Hutchinson

2023/5/7

When brands become Stans: Netflix, originals, and enacting a fannish persona on Instagram

Television & New Media

Casta Sligh

Crystal Abidin

2023/9

TeachTok: Teachers of TikTok, micro-celebrification, and fun learning communities

Teaching and Teacher Education

Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú

Crystal Abidin

2023/3/1

K-pop TikTok: TikTok's expansion into South Korea, TikTok Stage, and platformed glocalization

Media International Australia

Crystal Abidin

Jin Lee

2023/8

Introduction to the special issue of “TikTok and social movements”

Social Media+ Society

Jin Lee

Crystal Abidin

2023/2

Black summer on TikTok and ABC news: Shaping cultural identity during an Australian bushfire crisis

Convergence

Emily van der Nagel

Jonathon Hutchinson

Crystal Abidin

Bondy Kaye

2023/8

The “Fox Eye” challenge trend: anti-racism work, platform affordances, and the vernacular of gesticular activism on TikTok

Social Media+ Society

Xinyu Zhao

Crystal Abidin

2023/2

Symbiosis or parasitism? A framework for advancing interdisciplinary and socio-cultural perspectives in influencer marketing

Lauren Gurrieri

Jenna Drenten

Crystal Abidin

2023/7/24

Grief hypejacking: Influencers,# ThoughtsAndPrayers, and the commodification of grief on Instagram

The Information Society

Crystal Abidin

2022/5/27

Playing YouTube: How the Nancy YouTuber doll and app position children as aspiring YouTube influencers

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Alexandra Ruiz-Gomez

Tama Leaver

Crystal Abidin

2022/3

Understanding identity and platform cultures

The SAGE handbook of digital society

Harry T Dyer

Crystal Abidin

2022/11/23

Music challenge memes on TikTok: Understanding in-group storytelling videos

International Journal of Communication

Arantxa Vizcaíno-Verdú

Crystal Abidin

2022/1/14

What I Talk About When I Talk About Authenticity: An Auto-Bibliographic Inquiry

Crystal Abidin

2022/11/21

Social justice through social media pop cultures: Case studies and reading resources on influencers and TikTok

Crystal Abidin

Jin Lee

2022

Oegugin Influencers and pop nationalism through government campaigns: Regulating foreign‐nationals in the South Korean YouTube ecology

Policy & Internet

Jin Lee

Crystal Abidin

2022/9

Racial harmony and sexual violence: Uneven regulation and legal protection gaps for influencers in Singapore

Policy & Internet

George Radics

Crystal Abidin

2022/9

Activism in Singapore in the Digital Age: Influencer Cultures, Meme Factories, and Networked Virality

CRYSTAL ABIDIN

2021

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Co-Authors

H-index: 31
Mary Mostafanezhad

Mary Mostafanezhad

University of Hawaii at Manoa

H-index: 27
Rob Cover

Rob Cover

RMIT University

H-index: 23
Tama Leaver

Tama Leaver

Curtin University

H-index: 20
Eric C. Thompson

Eric C. Thompson

National University of Singapore

H-index: 15
katie warfield

katie warfield

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

H-index: 14
Gabriele de Seta

Gabriele de Seta

Universitetet i Bergen

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