#KateGate: How the passionate energy of publics’ social media posts affected the royal communications crisis
Journal Article
Logan-McFarlane, A. (2025)
#KateGate: How the passionate energy of publics’ social media posts affected the royal communications crisis. Public Relations Review, 51(3), Article 102590. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pubrev.2025.102590
This paper analyzes how passionate publics creatively reshaped the crisis narrative during the British Royal Family’s 2024 #KateGate controversy. When the Royal Communications...
Is it real or not? construction of meaning and identity in virtual influencer marketing
Journal Article
Thompson, J., Igarashi, R., Krowinska, A., & Logan-McFarlane, A. (2025)
Is it real or not? construction of meaning and identity in virtual influencer marketing. Journal of Business Research, 194, Article 115362. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115362
Virtual influencers (VIs) are an emerging category of social media influencer. Through a sequential mixed-method research design, this research employs the theoretical lens of...
#Chavcheck: embodied TikTok memes and labouring to leverage habitus.
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Logan-McFarlane, A. (2024, June)
#Chavcheck: embodied TikTok memes and labouring to leverage habitus. Paper presented at GENMAC Conference, University of Edinburgh
This paper reveals how going viral with an embodied meme stereotype promotes gender and social class struggles. Specifically, it exposes the digital labour involved in constru...
Dissemination of Academic Research Using Visual Methods
Book Chapter
McFarlane, A., Yannopoulou, N., Chandrasapth, K., Kelsey, D., Jones, S., Cronin, J., Piacentini, M., Cléret, B., Porteous, H., Wilson, J., & Hamilton, K. (2024)
Dissemination of Academic Research Using Visual Methods. In F. Kawaf, & O. Deckel-Dachs (Eds.), Visual Methods in Marketing and Consumer Research. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003310877-9
This chapter explores the diverse ways that academic researchers reimagine, capture, and disseminate their research using visual methods.
In this chapter we benefit from the...
Digital content and social media influencers
Book Chapter
Logan-McFarlane, A. (2023)
Digital content and social media influencers. In A. Krowinska, C. Backhaus, B. Becker, & F. Bosser (Eds.), Digital Content Marketing: Creating Value in Practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003346500-8
This chapter discusses social media influencer domains and reviews different types of influencers, such as mega, macro, micro, and nano. The chapter evaluates social media inf...
#Chavcheck: Does TikTok facilitate the pornification of social class struggles?
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Logan-McFarlane, A. (2023, July)
#Chavcheck: Does TikTok facilitate the pornification of social class struggles?. Paper presented at Netnocon 2023, University of Salford, Manchester, UK
In 2020, the ‘chav’ trope resurfaced globally on TikTok. The trend featured individuals performing ““chav checks”, heavy makeup tutorials, and showing off the UK’s “chavviest ...
Changing Public Opinion on Fashion and Age: Unpacking Narrative Strategy in Instagram Message Posts of 50+ Fashion Influencers
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Logan-McFarlane, A., & Samsioe, E. (2023, June)
Changing Public Opinion on Fashion and Age: Unpacking Narrative Strategy in Instagram Message Posts of 50+ Fashion Influencers. Paper presented at Consumer Culture Theory (CCT), Lund University, Sweden
Our study aims to investigate how narrative strategy can be employed to change public opinion on age in the Western beauty and fashion market. Our unique contribution lies in ...
Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere
Journal Article
Logan-McFarlane, A., Hamilton, K., & Hewer, P. (2022)
Putting passion to work: Passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere. European Journal of Marketing, 56(4), 1210-1231. https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-08-2019-0642
Purpose
This study aims to explore passionate labour in the fashion blogosphere and addresses two research questions: How does passion animate passionate labour? How does the ...
Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism
Presentation / Conference
Todd, L., & Logan-McFarlane, A. (2020, September)
Semiotics of the festival city: exploring the visual culture of Edinburgh. . Paper presented at Special Track: Visual Tourism. Paper presented at ATLAS annual conference 2020: Tourism as a driver of regional development and collaboration, Online
This paper presents emerging themes from our study of the semiotics that sustain the visual culture, consumption and place myth of Edinburgh, as the ‘world’s leading festival ...
#50+ fashion Instagram influencers: cognitive age and aesthetic digital labours
Journal Article
McFarlane, A., & Samsioe, E. (in press)
#50+ fashion Instagram influencers: cognitive age and aesthetic digital labours. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, 24(3), 399-413. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMM-08-2019-0177
This paper demonstrates how #50+ fashion Instagram influencers contribute to the social construction of cognitive age through their aesthetic digital labours.
Non-participativ...