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I am a blogger. Pretty much everyone on Instagram is a blogger these days. But not everyone is a social media influencer making money on their blogs.

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Temple-Wood, E. (2021). Wikipedia and the New Web. In: Facebook Nation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1867-7_11

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