(名詞) 網路名流。這個字是由 web 和 celebrity 拼綴而成。
現在任何人只要有一台可以上網的電腦,都可能成為網路名流。由於越來越多人仰賴網路來滿足娛樂需求,網路逐漸成為新小說、音樂、影片和藝術發表的平台。舉例來說,如果一支您在舞蹈或引吭高歌的影片,短時間內就吸引上百萬人瀏覽,那麼保證您一夕之間成名。因此,如果說現在是個網路成名的時代 (It's an age of cewebrity!),一點也不為過,也印證了美國普普藝術家安迪‧沃荷 (Andy Warhol) 的名言:「未來,每個人都有機會成名十五分鐘」(In the future everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.)。
引句:
The artist Andy Warhol famously said that he thought everybody would be famous for fifteen minutes, and with the increasing power of the internet, that’s more true today than ever. Anybody with an internet connection and a computer can now become a cewebrity.
A cewebrity is somebody who is only, or perhaps mostly famous through their presence on the internet, an internet personality who crosses over to the mainstream. A web celebrity. A cewebrity.
—Mark Shea, "Cewebrity," BBC, November 17, 2009
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