DIGITAL INFLUENCERS IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION: traces of the production conditions of Brainstorm9 and Advertising Geek on the social media platform Instagram
speech; digital influence; social media platform; Instagram; multimodal method.
Digital influencers have established themselves as catalysts for relevant discursive processes in
the context of contemporary culture and communication. These ‘new’ agents of the communication industry
in digital environments generate considerable volume of content - whether due to the harassment of
major brands justified by the attention and relevance to the audience that these players mobilize in
their social media channels; either through the reconfiguration and constant innovation of business
processes related to digital marketing and communication in particular. Given the resurgence of
the action of these agents on social networks, the profiles Braistorm9 and Geek Advertising
on Instagram were analyzed in their production conditions, as influencers specialized in media
and communication in this network. The exploratory study carried out was of a comparative nature,
with a predominantly quantitative approach, based on the methods of the reading contract of Eliseo Verón (1985) and the multimodal of Elisa Mendes (2013). In the situational macrodimension, ‘influencer’ as EUcommunicator and also as EUenunciator were traces of the production conditions of these creators; the ‘followers’ of each profile with the recipient TU, and the ‘audience interested in audiovisual’ as the TU interpreter. The enunciation statute was ‘real’, with ‘real effect’, and the prevalent discursive mode of the genre ‘reported event’. The topic 'coverage' emerged as the main item. In the rhetorical-discursive macrodimension, among the technical elements of the image were white lines; the average angle; the plan, detail; the type of 'professional' image. The communication industry has made these users-nods, the digital influencers, an accelerating instance specialized in managing relationships between the interests of the major players in the market and the common user through the conversational structure provided by the Instagram platform, weaving articulations
between language, technique and the Social.