To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Celebrities in popular culture.
Journal articles on the topic 'Celebrities in popular culture'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Celebrities in popular culture.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Jacke, Christoph. "Stars, Anti-Stars, Anti-Star-Stars." Persona Studies 10, no. 1 (May 1, 2024): 56–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.21153/psj2024vol10no1art1872.
Full textAbstract:
The phenomenon of stars and celebrities in media cultures – and especially in popular music cultures – seems to be omnipresent. At the same time, there is an astounding lack of analysis and research on these media personalities and personas, and international celebrity studies only recently a developing new field. Similarly, these kinds of observations are still very rare especially in German sociology as well as communication, media, culture and popular music studies. In this article, I therefore want to concentrate on the foundations of studying stars and celebrities within the attention economies by undertaking a theoretical transmedia-cultural framing of media personas and suggesting a typology. This ensuing typology of stars, anti-stars, and anti-star stars – especially within popular music cultures – demonstrates how stars and celebrities and their quantities and qualities of success and peer-group specific values coming form programs of (media and music) culture can serve as persona-seismographs of socio-cultural change between tradition and innovation.
2
Wang, Zi. "An Analysis of the Phenomenon of "Collapsing Persona" of Chinese Celebrities through Goffman's Dramaturgical Theory." Journal of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences 9 (March 27, 2023): 111–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.54097/ehss.v9i.6423.
Full textAbstract:
In the current context of the rapid development of China's entertainment industry, the creation of a popular celebrity "persona" has become a shortcut for celebrities and their agencies to gain benefits, and celebrities can quickly gain attention and a large number of fans by constructing a "persona". However, with the rapid development of the Internet, the real face behind the celebrity's "persona" is gradually exposed to the public, and the collapse of the celebrity's "persona" is a common occurrence. The phenomenon of the collapse of celebrity "persona" has serious implications at the personal, interactive and social levels, and the communication and sociological logic and issues behind it are worth exploring and reflecting on. Therefore, this paper analyses the causes of the phenomenon and its negative effects from the perspective of Goffman's mimesis theory and makes suggestions and reflections on how to avoid the negative effects brought about by the collapse of celebrities' "personas". The study found that the collapse of celebrities' "persona" was caused by capital guidance from agencies, the uneven quality of the celebrities themselves, the rapid development of the Internet, the alienation of symbolic consumption, and the addition of fan groups to the drama class. The collapse of a celebrity's "persona" will in turn have a negative impact on these factors, not only affecting the circulation and reproduction of capital, but also deeply affecting the role perception and cultural identity of fans and society at large, fostering a negative social climate and hindering social progress and development. Therefore, in order to eliminate this phenomenon, the entire drama class needs to work together, with stars, agencies, the media, the public, especially fans and the government, and other rights holders sharing their respective social responsibilities to build a good entertainment culture and a healthy popular culture.
3
Lovelock, Michael. "Gay and happy: (Proto-)homonormativity, emotion and popular culture." Sexualities 22, no. 4 (October 24, 2018): 549–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460718758666.
Full textAbstract:
To be happy has become an overwhelming imperative for contemporary gay men. Interrogating the shame-to-happiness narratives of British gay male celebrities, this article expands the concept of homonormativity by exploring its emotional dimensions. I argue that, in popular representations, happiness has become a form of proto-homonormativity, demarcated as a prerequisite to a ‘successful’ (homonormative) gay life. I conceptualize proto-homonormativity as an emergent paradigm of gay male subjectivity, which is shaped by broader valorizations of authenticity and self-therapy which permeate neoliberal media cultures. As articulated by gay celebrities, proto-homonormative discourses acknowledge the barriers to happiness that gay men face in heteronormative societies, yet reproduce heteronormativity by demarcating individualized processes of emotional self-work as the route to becoming happy.
4
Gries, Peter, Matthew A. Sanders, David R. Stroup, and Huajian Cai. "Hollywood in China: How American Popular Culture Shapes Chinese Views of the “Beautiful Imperialist” – An Experimental Analysis." China Quarterly 224 (October 28, 2015): 1070–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0305741015000831.
Full textAbstract:
AbstractWhile most mainland Chinese today have extremely few direct contacts with either America or Americans, their indirect contacts with both, via globalized American popular culture, are increasing rapidly. Do daily parasocial contacts with American celebrities shape Chinese views of America? Based on two experimental studies, this paper argues that even indirect, subconscious exposure to American celebrities via popular magazine covers shapes Chinese views of America. However, the impact of that exposure depends upon both the specific nature of the bicultural exposure and the psychological predispositions of the Chinese involved. Not all Chinese are alike, and their personality differences shape whether they experience American popular culture as enriching or threatening, leading to integrative and exclusionary reactions, respectively.
5
Columbus, Peter J., and Michael A. Boerger. "Defining Popular Iconic Metaphor." Psychological Reports 90, no. 2 (April 2002): 579–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.2002.90.2.579.
Full textAbstract:
Popular Iconic Metaphor is added to the cognitive linguistic lexicon of figurative language. Popular Iconic Metaphors employ real or fictional celebrities of popular culture as source domains in figurative discourse. Some borders of Popular Iconic Metaphor are identified, and Elvis Presley is offered as a prototype example of a popular iconic source domain, due to his ubiquity in American popular culture, which affords his figurative usage in ways consistent with decision heuristics in everyday life. Further study of Popular Iconic Metaphors may serve to illuminate how figurative expressions emerge in their localized contexts, structure conduct and experience, and affect mediation of cultural and personal meanings.
6
Ying, Yan, and Weiqing Xiao. "Chinese Popular Culture in Translation and Transmission." East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 9, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): 165–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00105_2.
Full textAbstract:
The introduction to the Special Issue, ‘Chinese Popular Culture in Translation and Transmission’, provides an overall view of the theme. It starts with a discussion of the definition of popular culture and its powerful presence in today’s world assisted by technological development. To follow is a sketch of Chinese popular culture in the contemporary political and cultural context. We then propose a translational perspective, through which modes and issues of exchange, mediation and intervention when Chinese popular culture enters the western cultural and ideological landscape can be located, examined and analysed. Finally, five articles in this special issue – respectively on ‘tai chi’, Peppa Pig and China, internet celebrities and Chinese learning, Chinese online literature in English translation and fan translation of BL web novels – are briefly introduced. When read together, the collection reveals some paradigms and trends of Chinese popular culture in global cultural flow.
7
Duman, Ebru. "Kawaii Culture’s Influence as Part of Japanese Popular Culture Trends in Turkey." GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON JAPAN, no. 3 (March 31, 2020): 88–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.62231/gp3.160001a5.
Full textAbstract:
Kawaii is a Japanese adjective meaning cute. The word’s meaning evolved and it has turned into a facet popular culture in the 1970s. It can be regarding anything that is cute, innocent, pure or even ugly. Kawaii has been advancing around the globe since the 2000s due to the widespread popularity of Hello Kitty, Japanese anime (animation), manga (comic books), fashion brands, celebrities and so on. Therefore, Japanese companies and government sections took action to promote this popular culture. Turkey is one of the countries that has been affected by the impact of kawaii. Hello Kitty, considered as the icon of kawaii culture, has become very trendy among Turkish children. The number of teenagers who love and watch anime has been increasing and adults who grew up watching anime are now interested in manga. There are several conventions where people share their interests in Japanese popular culture and join cosplay (costume play) contests. People wearing cute accessories or stores that sell kawaii goods and clothes are growing in number day by day. From celebrities to football teams, kawaii culture’s impact will be observed in Turkish society.
8
Gammage, Marquita. "Pop Culture Without Culture: Examining the Public Backlash to Beyoncé’s Super Bowl 50 Performance." Journal of Black Studies 48, no. 8 (September 7, 2017): 715–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021934717729504.
Full textAbstract:
On February 7, 2016, Beyoncé took the stage of Super Bowl 50 as a featured artist during the halftime show. Immediately after, her performance was classified as an anti-American act of terrorism. The public took to social media, not in the usual fan craze, but to condemn and damn Beyoncé for her celebration of Black culture. This condemning is a reflection of the marginalized treatment of Black popular artists which prohibits them from speaking out on Black issues. Consequently, Black popular artists are forced to shed off their cultural identities in order to achieve and maintain mainstream/pop culture success. This article provides a detailed examination of Beyoncé’s celebration of Black culture and its aftermath, along with other contemporary Black popular artists and celebrities, and will highlight the contemporary damnation of Black entertainers. These analyses will create a foundation for challenging the race-neutral categorization of Black popular artists.
9
Sethi, Rahul, and Dushyant Dave. "Influence of designer fashion handbags on movie stars, celebrities and popular culture." Mass Communicator: International Journal of Communication Studies 15, no. 3 (2021): 33–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0973-967x.2021.00017.x.
Full text
10
Jerslev, Anne, and Line Nybro Petersen. "Introduction: ageing celebrities, ageing fans, and ageing narratives in popular media culture." Celebrity Studies 9, no. 2 (April 3, 2018): 157–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2018.1465302.
Full text
11
Pycka, Anna. "Jak umierają współcześni bohaterowie i co po nich zostaje?" Kultura Popularna 3, no. 49 (April 30, 2017): 60–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0009.8045.
Full textAbstract:
Watching deaths belongs to natural human needs. Nowadays this need is fulfilled by popular culture. Here I am focusing on the last public statements by the late Polish VIPs and celebrities, recognized as the superstars of popular culture – Pope John Paul II, Zbigniew Religa, a prominent Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, Jan Kaczkowski, a Roman Catholic priest, and Maria Czubaszek, a writer and a journalist, and the best selling books seals with their names. My conclusions, in the context of Goeffrey Gorer’s essay, The Pornography of Death, put the new light on the issue of the death in popular culture.
12
Kumalasari, Intan, Darliana Sormin, and Muhammad Irsan Barus. "Celebrity ‘Ulama’: Contiguity Religion and Popular Culture." Britain International of Humanities and Social Sciences (BIoHS) Journal 1, no. 2 (October 3, 2019): 124–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/biohs.v1i2.43.
Full textAbstract:
Post-1998 is the spread of spiritualism discourse. The emergence of celebrity ‘ulama’ in Islamic expression of contemporary Indonesian treasury is one example of how popular culture with a set of ideologies taking advantage of the rise of Islam. Television became an agent of a culture to the people with his ability as a link between one culture with another culture. Televisions have unpacked the real with the imaginary. With television all things can be esthetizatied, the sacred and the profane into somersaults. Television media such strength finally gave birth to a new religious authority, called celebrities ‘ulama’. Factors caused by the emergence of celebrity ‘’ulama’ are sociological, which characterized by many people who prefer to watch the celebrity ‘ulama’ than watching Conventional Ulama. Then supported by sophisticated Tecnology Science, the stage, and commodification. This shows that Islam has been negotiating with the market and subsequently published widely in the public sphere as a form of freedom of expression in the new order in which the strength of the potential of Islam to be appreciated by the government. This can be described as a form of commodification of religion in the sense of religious values commercialized for profit.
13
Kumalasari, Intan, Darliana Sormin, and Muhammad Irsan Barus. "Celebrity ‘Ulama’: Contiguity Religion and Popular Culture." Budapest International Research and Critics Institute (BIRCI-Journal) : Humanities and Social Sciences 2, no. 3 (September 3, 2019): 516–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/birci.v2i3.465.
Full textAbstract:
Post-1998 is the spread of spiritualism discourse. The emergence of celebrity ‘ulama’ in Islamic expression of contemporary Indonesian treasury is one example of how popular culture with a set of ideologies taking advantage of the rise of Islam. Television became an agent of a culture to the people with his ability as a link between one culture with another culture. Televisions have unpacked the real with the imaginary. With television all things can be esthetizatied, the sacred and the profane into somersaults. Television media such strength finally gave birth to a new religious authority, called celebrities ‘ulama’. Factors caused by the emergence of celebrity ‘’ulama’ are sociological, which characterized by many people who prefer to watch the celebrity ‘ulama’ than watching Conventional Ulama. Then supported by sophisticated Tecnology Science, the stage, and commodification. This shows that Islam has been negotiating with the market and subsequently published widely in the public sphere as a form of freedom of expression in the new order in which the strength of the potential of Islam to be appreciated by the government. This can be described as a form of commodification of religion in the sense of religious values commercialized for profit.
14
Yun, Kusuk. "Study on the “Arttainer” Phenomenon: Focusing on the Types, Characteristics, and Areas of the Artistic Activities of Entertainers." Korean Arts Association of Arts Management 68 (November 30, 2023): 33–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.52564/jamp.2023.68.33.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this paper is to examine the changing characteristics of the art world and popular culture in the 21st century by tracking entertainers who are also active in the arts, also known as “arttainers”. The results of this study showed that most “arttainers” are young singers or actors with no academic art background, while 24% are art majors from prestigious universities. They are mainly active in commercial venues such as art fairs and galleries in Seoul and the Seoul metropolitan area, as well as in art auctions, NFTs, and home shopping. Their works are highly popular in the market and command high prices. Most of them participate in “group art exhibitions,” which are a kind of casual art event, but some celebrities consistently introduce their works at famous galleries and well-known art spaces. In addition, celebrities declare themselves to be “artists” without having participated in any specific art activities in their their public career. On the other hand, “arttainers” also present their works in spaces with a strong artistic character, such as art museums, art centers, and biennials, and are active in various charitable activities. In addition, a significant number of established artists present their works together with celebrities, forming an intersection between the art world and the entertainment world. In this way, this paper is significant in that it examines the characteristics of the 21st century art world and popular culture by analyzing “arttainers”.
15
Harahap, Yolanda, Rahmanita Ginting, and Leylia Khairani. "Fenomena Keterbukaan Diri Selebgram Perempuan di Kota Medan Sebagai Cermin Budaya Populer di Media Sosial Instagram." PERSPEKTIF 10, no. 2 (July 8, 2021): 754–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.31289/perspektif.v10i2.5117.
Full textAbstract:
This research aims to analyse the phenomenon of self-disclosure and determine the type of self-disclosure of female Instagram celebrities in Medan as popular culture on Instagram social media. This research uses Self Disclosure Theory and New Media Theory. This research method with qualitative approach. This research uses in-depth interview and observation data collection techniques. Informants in this study were five female Instagram celebrities in Medan, who were selected according to the criteria of the research informant until the information was at its saturation point. The results obtained from this study are female Instagram celebrities in Medan discovering a new perspective on themselves by opening themselves up through the Insta Story feature on Instagram social media, self-disclosure is a job desk for Instagram female Instagram celebrities in Medan, they have pioneered in the trend of opening themselves through the Instagram insta story feature, they are making the pioneers as an example and reference for acting on Instagram social media. The female Instagram celebrities in Medan more often share daily moments than their opinions on updating issues. The moment is about their work or college, a moment of social activity, a moment of hangout, and a vacation moment.
16
Akmaliah, Wahyudi. "Ria Ricis and New Platform of Islamic Popular Culture." DINIKA : Academic Journal of Islamic Studies 4, no. 3 (December 25, 2019): 377. http://dx.doi.org/10.22515/dinika.v4i3.1706.
Full textAbstract:
Not only change the landscape of popular culture, but the presence of social media also reshapes the structure and the agency. Nowadays, social media can turn ordinary people to celebrities. Using Instagram and YouTube, Ria Ricis has become a piety celebrity who shows her Islamic identity through Islamic performance by wearing the veil in a casual way and earns money from her uploaded videos in social media. Based on a case study of this figure, this paper raises questions related to Islamic popular culture in Indonesia: How does Indonesian define their public sphere currently amid the growth of social media usage? How does Indonesian Muslim respond to social media as a part of digital technology amidst Islamization in the post of an authoritarian regime? What is the possibility of tension for that young Indonesian Muslim as micro-celebrity while facing the three factors related, Islamic identities, enjoyment, and economic benefits? This paper argues that the new media platform has not only affected Indonesian Muslims’ lifestyles, but also the way in which they negotiate Islamic values, secular life, and economic interest. Keywords: Ria Ricis, Social Media, Islamic Popular Culture, and Digital Economy
17
Stamilio, Anthony. "Anti-Black Racial Violence and Popular Culture in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 20, no. 4 (October 2021): 560–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781421000475.
Full textAbstract:
With #saytheirnames, the 2020 Black Lives Matters movement implores the national public to etch the names of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor into their consciousness. The fight for racial justice is a fight for attention in American popular culture. Activists push for recognition of the right to Black life, celebrities attempt to shine their spotlights on justice initiatives, and public figures debate solutions to systemic racism. The immediacy of today’s racial violence discourse parallels that of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
18
Wildan, Muhammad, and Witriani Witriani. "Popular Piety in Indonesia: “Aestheticization” and Reproduction of Islam." Ilahiyat Studies 12, no. 2 (December 31, 2021): 213–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.12730/13091719.2021.122.227.
Full textAbstract:
Globalization and democratization have greatly contributed to the rise of Islamic popular culture especially popular piety in Indonesia. Popular piety can be defined as Muslims’ religious expressions that are driven mostly by their culture or atmosphere rather than their ideology. This article will observe several phenomena of popular piety such as the flourish of the hijâb among middle-class urbanite Muslims, dahwahtainment, the hijrah movement, the burgeoning of ʿumrah pilgrimage with celebrities etc. It is interesting to see these phenomena as part of the process of re-Islamization, secularization, or even post-Islamism. In my view, popular piety is part of the process of public Islam which in turn will generate civil Islam. The phenomena of popular piety will not only be viewed from the perspective of commodification of Islam and consumerism of Muslims, but also as an “aestheticization” of Islam which would foster a much broader interpretation of Islam in Indonesia.
19
Priyatna, Aquarini. "Writing a Feminine Subject: The Auto/Biographical Narratives of Indonesian Female Celebrities." SAGE Open 11, no. 3 (July 2021): 215824402110326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211032660.
Full textAbstract:
Situated in popular culture, celebrity auto/biography becomes both space and instrument for self-representation that illuminates the issues of public/private, global/local, normative/disruptive, and fact/fiction dichotomies. This article works on five auto/biographies of Indonesian female celebrities published in the 2000s, namely, Lenny Marlina, Krisdayanti, Tiara Lestari, Yuni Shara, and Dorce Gamalama. By conducting a close reading of the texts and how the celebrities present their lives, the article seeks to argue that the auto/biographies represent the complexity of Indonesian celebrity femininities that are culturally intertwined. The article also shows that the auto/biographies contribute to establishing their celebrity status and how they present their lives as exemplary. Finally, this study aims at contributing to the understanding of how celebrity auto/biographies complicate the notion of the feminine within Indonesian celebrity culture.
20
Zhuang, Shubin, and Ruiyang Qin. "Research on the Marketing and Promotion of Boys' Love drama on Weibo from the Perspective of Fan Culture." BCP Business & Management 17 (February 23, 2022): 223–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/bcpbm.v17i.396.
Full textAbstract:
In the Internet era, the market has put forward higher requirements for the drama marketing and promotion on Weibo. Besides, the IP craze such as fan culture and boy’s love (BL) drama has brought new opportunities and challenges. The paper starts with a quantitative content analysis of the drama Guardian and The Untamed which are popular in recent years, looks into the influence of fan group and BL culture on Weibo’s drama marketing and promotion based on the super group and official account, and puts forward corresponding strategies and suggestions. The study finds that producers, celebrities and fans are interconnected. Among them, fans take the navigating position whereas producers and celebrities are responsible for producing the content targeted at fan groups and exploring the methods of traffic monetization with grasping the emotional and economic model of fan culture. However, in this process, there are also problems such as capital and platform power misuse, the irrational activities. Therefore, more normative guidance of the BL adaptation culture and BL dramas needs to be put on the agenda.
21
Gentry, Briand. "“More Hawaiian Than Hawaii Itself”." Feminist Media Histories 9, no. 4 (2023): 81–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2023.9.4.81.
Full textAbstract:
This article investigates the phenomenon of “Hawaiian Fevers” in US popular culture during the Progressive Era. Examining the careers of “hula” celebrities Toots Paka and Doraldina, I examine how both dancers sought to legitimize their appropriations of Hawaiian culture through performances of timelessness and wildness that established iconography of Hawai‘i as an otherworldly territory. The racial masquerade of this performed Hawaiianness eased white identification with embodiments of “going native” while also promising transformational access to a leisure-class paradise. Examining the press rhetoric surrounding both dancers, I consider how cross-race performances of hula instructed American women on how to be adeptly modern postindustrial imperial subjects. In fantasizing Hawai‘i as the restorative otherworld foil of the United States, these celebrities and the hula craze in which they participated reveal how the United States authenticates its own imagination of itself as a modernizing missionary of industrial imperialism.
22
Zhou, Xuyang. "A Study of the Phenomenon of Celebrity Idols Among Adolescent Students in Chinese Popular Culture." Communications in Humanities Research 4, no. 1 (May 17, 2023): 531–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.54254/2753-7064/4/20220846.
Full textAbstract:
With the continuous development of economic globalisation, social informatisation and cultural diversification, pop culture has greatly impacted people's daily lives. Cultural diversity, the celebrity effect and celebrity worships are important and significant expressions and carriers of pop culture and an indispensable part of pop culture. The spread and popularity of popular culture have become possible along with it. People are the carriers of culture, which in turn means that culture has the function of shaping people. Celebrity worship is a transitional behaviour in the process of adolescent growth; most adolescents, since China's reform and opening up, have seen themselves as carriers of culture and have taken celebrities as their idols. Today the worship of celebrity idols in Chinese popular culture has become a part of people's daily lives. The study of the phenomenon of idol worship among Chinese adolescents itself is therefore of great sociological and cultural importance. Therefore, this thesis aims to promote the development of the study of idol worship among Chinese adolescents. It will also be able to explore the idolatry of adolescents and their values in today's society.
23
Allen, Shaonta’, and Brittney Miles. "Unapologetic Blackness in Action: Embodied Resistance and Social Movement Scenes in Black Celebrity Activism." Humanity & Society 44, no. 4 (July 2, 2020): 375–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0160597620932886.
Full textAbstract:
American popular culture was established to appease a white audience and continues to operate in such a manner. This pervasive white gaze in the entertainment industry manifests in anti-Black depictions and ideologies. Black celebrities have resisted this distinct form of racial oppression by overtly affirming their Black identity in entertainment spaces. To further explore this phenomenon, the present article examines: How do Black celebrities employ unapologetic Blackness as an embodied resistance tactic to challenge racial inequality in pop cultural spaces? We analyze five cases of contemporary celebrity activism across various pop cultural platforms (YouTube, film, sport, music, and television) and find that just as race is socially constructed, varying across social locations, resistance to racial oppression also varies depending on the site in which it occurs. We further argue that Black celebrities’ embodied resistance converts pop cultural spaces into social movement scenes, thus transforming moments of entertainment into opportunities for political mobilization.
24
Aondover Eric Msughter, Martha Msoo Hile, and Fatima Salihu Bappa. "Have you Heard What They Are Doing to Women? Media Portrayal of Female Celebrities in Nigerian Press." Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial 9, no. 2 (May 28, 2022): 186–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/konfrontasi2.v9i2.206.
Full textAbstract:
The globalized culture of celebrity is argued to have profound effect on knowledge, power and representation. Celebrity culture as a popular culture promoted through the media influence certain categories of group. The study used quantitative content analysis to examine the portrayal of female celebrities in the Daily Trust and The Nation newspapers. The study used purposive sampling technique to select the newspaper, and stratified sampling by days of the week to select the editions. The study used framing theory to examine the coverage and portrayal of female celebrities in the two selected newspapers. The findings suggest that the media should be cognizant of the harmful and erroneous impressions that can result from portraying female celebrities in terms of their attributes rather than their professional accomplishment. The study concludes that issues concerning Nigerian female celebrity are seriously lacking both inequality and quantity. Despite the active involvement of females in the entertainment industry, they are still being fitted and portrayed in negatively stereotypic ways. The relationship between the media and the society is a symbiotic one - the media feeds ‘from’ and ‘into’ the society hence, whatever the media portrays as ‘normal’ and prominent is what the society sees as so. Therefore, there is an urgent need to improve the representation of women in the media by increasing the quality and quantity of news stories about women.
25
Jia, Chao, and Jingting Zhang. "How the Popularity of Short Videos Promotes Regional Endogeneity in Northwest China: A Qualitative Study." Sustainability 14, no. 6 (March 21, 2022): 3664. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su14063664.
Full textAbstract:
Return migration is critical to regional endogeneity, especially in rural areas. In recent years, short videos, such as those on TikTok, have become very popular in rural China, which has attracted many people to return to their hometowns and become cyber-celebrities, profiting from the production of short videos to showcase local agricultural culture. The question focused on in this paper is to what extent the popularity of short videos has influenced return migration and what role it has played in promoting regional endogeneity. We conducted a qualitative survey of cyber-celebrities in Qingyang City, one of the poorest regions in northwest China, using NVivo12 software to validate a mechanistic model linking the popularity of short videos and return migration, and further explored the positive implications of reviving local agricultural culture through new technologies for regional endogeneity. The results show that (1) the popularity of short videos has a positive impact on return migration, (2) technical and financial support from local communities has a positive effect on the popularity of short videos, and (3) emotional strategies and local knowledge are key factors for the popularity of short videos. This study could help local communities build more competitive strategies while helping cyber-celebrities produce more communicative works to showcase local agricultural culture. The popularity of short videos is believed to have a positive impact on the preservation of regional agricultural heritage.
26
Ding, Beijie. "Aesthetic Interpretation of Chinese Fan Culture in the New Era." Frontiers in Humanities and Social Sciences 4, no. 6 (June 25, 2024): 180–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.54691/r4m0yk59.
Full textAbstract:
Fan culture, as a subculture, was formed in the 20th century. With the development of digital technology, Chinese fan culture in the new era presents four major characteristics, such as participation, group, organization and commerce. To decipher the reasons for the formation of fan culture, it can be roughly analyzed from three levels, including emotional resonance, interpersonal attraction and external driving force. Fan behavior is not only a simple pursuit of celebrities, but also a reflection of emotional projection, self-confirmation and group belonging. Although fan culture suffers from the prejudice of "vulgarity", as a kind of popular culture, it actually intersects with elite culture and jointly promotes the development of culture.
27
Tuzel, Sait, and Renee Hobbs. "The use of social media and popular culture to advance cross-cultural understanding." Comunicar 25, no. 51 (April 1, 2017): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3916/c51-2017-06.
Full textAbstract:
Although we live in a global society, educators face many challenges in finding meaningful ways to connect students to people of other cultures. This paper offers a case study of a collaboration between teachers in the US and Turkey, where 7th grade students interacted with each other via online social media as a means to promote cultural understanding. In a close analysis of a single learning activity, we found that children had opportunities to share ideas informally through social media, using their digital voices to share meaning using online writing, posting of images and hyperlinks. This study found that students valued the opportunity to develop relationships with each other and generally engaged in sharing their common interests in Hollywood movies, actors, celebrities, videogames and television shows. However, not all teachers valued the use of popular culture as a means to find common ground. Indeed, teachers had widely differing perspectives of the value of this activity. Through informal communication about popular culture in a «Getting to Know You» activity, students themselves discovered that their common ground knowledge tended to be US-centric, as American students lacked access to Turkish popular culture. However, the learning activity enabled students themselves to recognize asymmetrical power dynamics that exist in global media culture. Si bien vivimos en una sociedad global, los educadores se enfrentan a numerosos desafíos a la hora de hallar formas significativas de conectar a los alumnos con gente de otras culturas. Este artículo muestra un caso práctico de colaboración entre profesores de los Estados Unidos y Turquía, en el que alumnos de séptimo grado interactuaron entre sí a través de las redes sociales con el fin de promover la comprensión cultural. Al analizar una única actividad de aprendizaje hallamos que los alumnos tenían la oportunidad de compartir ideas informalmente a través de las redes sociales, usando su voz digital para compartir significados mediante la escritura online, publicación de imágenes e hipervínculos. Este estudio halló que los alumnos valoraban la oportunidad de relacionarse entre sí y tendían a compartir su interés común en películas de Hollywood, actores, famosos, videojuegos y programas de televisión. Sin embargo, no todos los profesores valoraban el uso de la cultura popular como medio para la búsqueda de puntos en común. En efecto, los profesores tenían perspectivas muy distintas sobre el valor de esta actividad. Mediante la comunicación informal en torno a la cultura popular en una actividad de conocimiento mutuo, los propios alumnos descubrieron que sus conocimientos en común tendían a estar centrados en los Estados Unidos, en tanto en cuanto los alumnos americanos no tenían acceso a la cultura popular turca. Sin embargo, la actividad de aprendizaje permitió a los propios alumnos reconocer las dinámicas de poder asimétrico que existen en la cultura mediática global.
28
Kępiński, Marcin. "Bigger, Stronger, Faster, czyli amerykański sen nie jest dla każdego, a sport to jedno wielkie oszustwo." Kultura i Społeczeństwo 61, no. 2 (April 24, 2017): 103–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.35757/kis.2017.61.2.6.
Full textAbstract:
The author analyses the 2009 documentary film Bigger, Stronger, Faster, which investigates the nature of American pop culture and sports. Writing from the perspective of cultural anthropology and sociology, he considers how ideas about the body and physicality are programmed by popular media culture and famous sports figures and celebrities, who are treated as models of masculinity and mass media heroes. He also raises the issue of the influence of illegal pharmaceutical doping on contemporary American sports. All these subjects serve to describe the form and functioning of America’s contemporary collective identity and the connection between the authorities, television, sports entertainment, and politics. The United States described in the documentary is a real and existing utopia, which Americans and other people have dreamt and still dream about, and which everyone believes in—not only the recipients of popular media culture and sports entertainment.
29
Pilkevych, Andrii. "«Multigenre Convention» Through a Prism of US Popular Culture." Ethnic History of European Nations, no. 67 (2022): 136–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2518-1270.2022.67.18.
Full textAbstract:
The article gives a brief description of the most famous festivals and conventions of popular culture in the United States, which include Comic-Con International: San Diego, New York Comic Con, Wizard World Chicago Comic Con, AggieCon, Alamo City Comic Con, All-Con, ApolloCon, Archon, Big Apple Comic Con, Blerdcon, CarnageCon, Chattacon, Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo, ClexaCon, CoastCon, ConCoction, ConGlomeration, ConnectiCon, CONvergence, Dragon Con, Emerald City Comic Con, Fan Expo Boston, Fan Expo Dallas, FanX, Florida Supercon, Genericon, Heroes Convention, LA Comic Con, MidSouthCon, MOBICON, MomoCon, Motor City Comic Con, Pacific Media Expo, Pensacon, Phoenix Fan Fusion, Sci-Fi Valley Con, Silicon Valley Comic Con, WonderCon, Zenkaikon. The most common thematic areas that fill the main structure of convention programs, in particular presentation of rare and latest examples of the comic’s industry, popularization of the idea of the value of collecting, providing space for novice artists to disseminate their work in the alley of artists. At the same time, with the growing dominance of the video game industry, board and card games, as well as themed collectible toys, remain widely popular. Most festivals feature cosplay competitions that reward the winners, autograph zones with invited celebrities, large-scale panels for exhibitions, where in addition to purely visual pleasure you can join workshops, thematic lectures and seminars. Events include Film Festival, cosplay and costume contests, dances, also the option of game playing. Programs include opportunities to preview the latest film industry news, anime, video game testing and sketches of leading artists from companies specializing in comic book content, exhibition panels with authentic material from the set of popular film franchises and interactions.
30
Machmiyah, Siti. "MEDIASI KESALEHAN SELEBRITI PEREMPUAN HIJRAH DI MEDIA SOSIAL INSTAGRAM." Widya Komunika 10, no. 1 (June 3, 2020): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/1.wk.2020.10.1.2586.
Full textAbstract:
ABSTRACT
The group of people who call themselves 'hijrah' in the realm of Islam has indeed become a new trend in Indonesia. This cannot be separated from the influence of post-Islamism which is rife where the traditional elements (in this case religion) can go hand in hand with the elements of modernity. Hijrah becomes a form of popular culture that can be easily followed by some Indonesian people, including by female celebrities, they eventually become a new 'capital' among bearers of hijrah because celebrities have a strong magnet to be a Hijrah trendsetter only close to the da’I who is a role model. The celebrities who hijrah were inevitably packing themselves to become the perfect celebrity hijrah figure, one of which was by branding the hijrah on Instagram social media, the hijrah celebrity then mediated ‘piety’ on Instagram through three things; upload preaching message content in everyday life, Islamic lifestyle in marketing endorsement products, and do remediation of preaching content from the da'i they follow.
Keywords : Celebrity, Hijrah, mediation
31
Machmiyah, Siti. "MEDIASI KESALEHAN SELEBRITI PEREMPUAN HIJRAH DI MEDIA SOSIAL INSTAGRAM." Widya Komunika 10, no. 1 (June 3, 2020): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/wk.v10i1.2586.
Full textAbstract:
ABSTRACT
The group of people who call themselves 'hijrah' in the realm of Islam has indeed become a new trend in Indonesia. This cannot be separated from the influence of post-Islamism which is rife where the traditional elements (in this case religion) can go hand in hand with the elements of modernity. Hijrah becomes a form of popular culture that can be easily followed by some Indonesian people, including by female celebrities, they eventually become a new 'capital' among bearers of hijrah because celebrities have a strong magnet to be a Hijrah trendsetter only close to the da’I who is a role model. The celebrities who hijrah were inevitably packing themselves to become the perfect celebrity hijrah figure, one of which was by branding the hijrah on Instagram social media, the hijrah celebrity then mediated ‘piety’ on Instagram through three things; upload preaching message content in everyday life, Islamic lifestyle in marketing endorsement products, and do remediation of preaching content from the da'i they follow.
Keywords : Celebrity, Hijrah, mediation
32
Wang, Xuan, and Elaine Chung. "Internet celebrities, foreign speakers and Chinese learning: The case of MYBY on YouTube." East Asian Journal of Popular Culture 9, no. 2 (September 1, 2023): 209–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/eapc_00108_1.
Full textAbstract:
This article studies internet celebrity culture as a crucial site of public learning and pedagogy, exploring the capacity of celebrated foreign speakers of Chinese to popularize discourses and knowledge of the language on social media. It specifically focuses on the YouTube channel MYBY founded by Martin Wiley Woods and Blair Sugarman, two foreign television personalities in China who have successfully extended their fame from traditional media to the internet. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of their bilingual ‘talk shows’ in which they evaluate the Chinese pronunciation and accents of other non-native speakers and share their own learning experiences, we discuss how Woods and Sugarman perform their identities as both model learners and language influencers by producing and challenging the language ideologies of normativity and speakerhood. We argue that internet celebrity pedagogy is an increasingly important genre of popular culture that discursively shapes the global transmission of Chinese language and linguaculture.
33
SUSILO, Dwi Agus. "INVOLVEMENT OF CELEBRITIES IN YOUTH PROGRAMS: A CASE STUDY OF THE ENTERTAINMENT-EDUCATION APPROACH AT THE MINISTRY OF YOUTH AND SPORTS OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA." ICCD 5, no. 1 (November 27, 2023): 376–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.33068/iccd.v5i1.630.
Full textAbstract:
Indonesian youth can potentially be agents of change but also as a development problem. This article looks at the potential youth have to overcome the problems young people face. The Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Indonesia has a communication strategy. Development of communication is carried out by implementing an entertainment-education (EE) approach to youth empowerment. Entertainment education in youth development by the Ministry of Youth through a popular culture approach invites celebrities. The method used is directly observing youth programs and activities from a literature study. Entertainment Education, or the edutainment approach, combines participatory communication strategies and the diffusion communication model. The results of the EE approach involving celebrities gain broader and greater access to information and youth involvement. EE, as a model of social and behavioral change, has been proven to turn young people into agents of change.
34
Li, Pengyun. "A Study of the Language of Bullet Comments in Bilibili Auto-tune Remix-themed Content Videos." SHS Web of Conferences 155 (2023): 02011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/202315502011.
Full textAbstract:
As a new and popular medium, bullet comments are popular among young people, and the presence of bullet comments is particularly indispensable in bilibili auto-tune remix-themed content video. The pop-ups themselves have not been a one-day success, but there are many political, economic and social and cultural influences, and the culture of the bullet comments, which originated in Japan, has fused with the culture of Chinese subtitling groups in China, making our bullet comment culture more locally. In fact, many of the internet buzzwords come from online pop-ups, and the auto-tune remix-themed content area, as a gathering place for very talented uploaders, is naturally not short of inspired viewers, and the classic bullet comments from them are gradually becoming visible in many mainstream cultures, and are also used by many influential celebrities or a significant portion of the public, causing a wider spread.From these cultural phenomena, it is easy to see that the producers of auto-tune remix-themed bullet comments have a strong secondary production capacity for specific cultures and a vigorous vitality for cultural products. Therefore, the study of the language of auto-tune remix-themed bullet comments has great significance and reference value for the diversification of cultural industries in the era of online culture and new media.This paper uses literature research, participant observation and inductive analysis to analyse the characteristics and significance of the language of bullet comments in bilibili auto-tune remix-themed content video.
35
Chung, Heejoon. "Sport Star vs Rock Star in Globalizing Popular Culture: Similarities, Difference and Paradox in Discussion of Celebrities." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 38, no. 1 (March 1, 2003): 99–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690203038001731.
Full text
36
Dytman-Stasieńko, Agnieszka, and Justyna Harbanowicz. "Socnarcyzm, czyli celebryci w PRL-u (na przykładzie miesięcznika „Ty i Ja”)." Zarządzanie Mediami 9, no. 1 (January 11, 2021): 81–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/23540214zm.21.004.13052.
Full textAbstract:
Soc-narcissism (or socialist narcissism) – celebrities in communist Poland on the example of the monthly "Ty i Ja" The article assumes that during communism time in Poland, especially during the period of increased television development in the Gomułka era (the 60s), there were no political, socio-communicative and cultural conditions for the development of the culture of celebrity and the related phenomenon of narcissistic attitudes of individuals popular in the media. This thesis is confirmed by the content analysis of the monthly “Ty i Ja”published in 1960–1973, considered to be the first Polish lifestyle magazine, presenting the stars of theater, film etc., but these presentations were far from revealing any narcissist features characteristic of contemporary culture or Western culture at the time.
37
Dobreva, Desislava. "Cancel Culture or Rhetoric behind the Keyboard." Rhetoric and Communications, no. 59 (April 30, 2024): 28–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.55206/xewx2588.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract: The article discusses the notion of “cancel culture”. The hypothesis is that as long as the phenomenon is based on the opinion of a group of people and not on logical arguments, its consequences are always serious and, in most cases, can be perceived as an attack on free speech, censorship or even cyberbullying. The problem is approached qualitatively, the study includes an examination of the phenomenon in theoretical and historical terms. An analysis is made of current events as well as documents, including media articles; scholarly and popular publications related to the topic of cancel culture. The rhetorical aspects are explored in the context of argument against authority, labeling, achieving discredit of celebrities, etc. The virtual environment creates the conditions for anyone to express their opinions quickly, freely, and sometimes anonymously; this envi¬ronment allows people with access to social networks, members of online forums and groups to accept or reject authorities; and to directly or indirectly influence opinion formation in virtual groups and communities. This is what makes the topic socially relevant and important to study, not only in terms of rhetoric and virtual communication. Keywords: cancel culture, rhetoric, cyberbullying, social media, cancel, can¬celled.
38
Piancazzo, Flavia. "Celebrities dressed like a goddess: Admiration, cultural appropriation and disrespect." Film, Fashion & Consumption 12, no. 2 (December 1, 2023): 231–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ffc_00064_1.
Full textAbstract:
In September 2020, the Italian edition of Vanity Fair magazine published a series of interviews with Italian women in important professional positions. Each woman interviewed was compared with a female figure that had a paramount role in history or in popular culture. Chiara Ferragni, entrepreneur and influencer who had established herself in the international fashion scene, was depicted as the Madonna with child, painted by Giovan Battista Salvi, also known as Sassoferrato, upsetting readers and social network/internet users. This will be the starting point of our analysis of other cases. At times the media portray or adorn the celebrity as a deity, or as a cult figure, thus mystifying or desecrating the sacred meaning of deities and history; there are dozens of examples of famous people who were portrayed or have made appearances dressed as divinities. The article will aim to offer a comparative analysis by attempting to systematically explain the variants of the social phenomena found in the parallelisms between appropriation and spectacularization of religious clothing.
39
Barkow, Jerome H., Rick O'Gorman, and Luke Rendell. "Are the New Mass Media Subverting Cultural Transmission?" Review of General Psychology 16, no. 2 (June 2012): 121–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0027907.
Full textAbstract:
Popular culture is a subcategory of culture. Today, mass and new media appear to be interfering with the evolved mechanisms that permit the acquisition and editing of culture. We know surprisingly little about these cognitive attentional processes that enable the information acquisition and editing packed into the term “cultural transmission.” It was Michael Chance who first concluded that we attend to and learn preferentially from those high in status. For Chance, high status based on fear leads to agonistic attention and a constricted type of learning, while hedonic attention based on respect permits much broader learning possibilities. If Chance's theories are supported, then it would follow that much of the current unpredictability of popular culture and culture change in general reflects the replacement of family and community high-status figures by influential media celebrities, thereby damaging the transmission of local culture. Chance's approach would also explain why we seem to find it difficult to pay attention to those low in status and power. There may be attractors of attention involved in cultural transmission in addition to status, including physical attractiveness. We consider, from an evolutionary perspective, various researchable hypotheses that stem from Chance's and related work and from ethnography, we discuss this work's implications for how we understand culture and “popular culture,” and we argue that the kind of research in cognitive and evolutionary psychology we espouse is also needed for the next generation of mathematical models of gene–culture coevolution. We conclude with a list of research questions.
40
Bail, Jeannie, and Ailsa Craig. "The Alert Collector: Transgender Culture and Resources." Reference & User Services Quarterly 56, no. 4 (June 21, 2017): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.56.4.249.
Full textAbstract:
In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness of transgender culture, issues, and experiences. In popular culture, trans celebrities such as Laverne Cox, Chaz Bono, and Janet Mock have been a part of this shift, often acting as celebrity spokespeople to increase understanding of trans issues. Even with the greater visibility of trans lives in popular culture, ongoing court battles like G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board (a US case centered on trans students’ rights to use communal bathrooms congruent with their gender) demonstrate the need for greater understanding and acceptance.As co-authors, we have had the privilege of working with materials on loan from the Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria (Canada), the largest transgender archive in the world. This experience, which included collecting comments from library patrons who viewed the collection materials, highlighted for us the role that libraries and archives play in laying the groundwork for increased diversity, awareness, and inclusion related to trans lives, culture, and community. It is not only a matter of meeting the information needs of those who are coming out as transgender, but the wider community of family (spouses, children, parents, etc.), friends, and allies. And, alongside the value of providing information with direct practical application, patrons’ comments underscored how the inclusion of trans resources at the library enriches our cultural imaginary, and creates the space for imagining and living what they have sometimes felt to be “impossible lives.”
41
Li, Xiaomeng. "How powerful is the female gaze? The implication of using male celebrities for promoting female cosmetics in China." Global Media and China 5, no. 1 (January 23, 2020): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059436419899166.
Full textAbstract:
In some East Asian countries like Japan, South Korea, and recently, China, there is a popular trend of having male celebrities as brand ambassadors or spokespeople for female cosmetics. This study is situated in the contemporary Chinese market and examines the so-called “Nan Se consumption (nan se xiao fei, 男色消费)” culture, which literally translates into “the consumption of sexualized men” in Chinese. Referring to postfeminism that focuses on female agency and the subjectivity of the female body, this article argues that the shift from “male gaze” to “female gaze,” and the consumption of sexualized men, appear to be revolutionary in terms of evaluating gender power; however, Chinese female consumers’ agency and self-empowerment are still limited by a conditioned neoliberal consumerist culture. The study also proposes that China’s contested “Nan Se consumption” culture reflects the complexity and fluidity of today’s postfeminist theorization.
42
Stepanyan, К., Y. Gorshunov, and E. Gorshunova. "American presidents and politicians in rhyming slang." Philology at MGIMO 7, no. 2 (July 6, 2021): 79–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2410-2423-2021-2-26-79-86.
Full textAbstract:
The article is aimed at identifying onomastic rhymes as part of rhyming slang and analyzing them from a socio-cultural perspective. They are built on the names of American celebrities from the world of politics and social activities and believed to be fixers of cultural and historical items that are of certain value from the point of view of culture-oriented linguistics, cross-cultural communication and the general study of culture. TThe research methods applied are determined by the purpose and objectives of the research and include a descriptive and a linguistic ones, the latter comprising context and definitional analysis, and also semantic interpretation. The rhymes are based on the names that have been widely represented in the media from the middle of the twentieth century to the present day, thus forming part of the modern cultural collective memory of the carriers of the English-speaking culture. The noted tendency of preferential creation of new rhymes, exploiting precedent onyms, became dominant in the development of rhyming slang at the turn of the century. The authors come to the conclusion that the rhymes illustrating the world of high politics have been added to the well-mastered and familiar onomastic rhymes, built on the names of celebrities from the world of cinema, pop music, popular culture and sports. The article brings to light the rhymes that have not yet been recorded in authoritative slang dictionaries. The research results can be of interest to the specialists working on the topics of intercultural communication, linguistic and cultural studies, cultural linguistics, political linguistics, euphemization, contrastive linguistics of the English and Russian languages.
43
Hong, Soonkwan, and Chang-Ho Kim. "Consuming the Korean: memetic kitschization of unorthodox aesthetics in Gangnam Style." Arts and the Market 6, no. 2 (October 3, 2016): 187–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aam-03-2015-0003.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to unpack an Asian-born celebrity culture in which celebrities become everyday necessities for global consumers’ identity struggle, prototypes for global branding strategy, contents for the media industry, and agents for sociocultural transformation. Design/methodology/approach In order to better elucidate such a significant phenomenon, the authors also introduce two mostly palpable and more relevant domains of celebrity culture to global consumer culture literature − politics of aesthetics and memetics − as analytical tools. Observations and publicly available narratives are also incorporated to enhance the review and critique of the global celebrification process. Psy’s Gangnam Style (GS) is chosen as an archetype, due to its exceptionally vulgar but highly replicable nature. Findings The specific case of GS exposes three unique qualities of kitsch − exaggeration, disconcertment, and subversive sensibility − that are substantially commensurate with prototypical characteristics of globalized online memes − ordinariness, flawed masculinity, theatricality, and ludic agency. Polysemy and optimism also facilitate the celebrification process in global participatory culture. Research limitations/implications The “radical intertextuality” of online memes sustains the participatory culture in which kitsch becomes a global icon through a reproductive process. Korean popular culture cultivates reverse cosmopolitanism through a nationalistic self-orientalization strategy that paradoxically indigenizes western pop-culture and transforms power relations in global pop culture. Originality/value This paper presents further elaboration of current discourses on global-celebrity culture by incorporating popular concepts and practices, such as kitsch, meme, parody, and sharing, which synergistically advance aesthetic liberation on a global scale.
44
Van den Bulck, Hilde, and Anders Olof Larsson. "‘There’s a Starman waiting in the sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 25, no. 2 (May 18, 2017): 307–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856517709670.
Full textAbstract:
This article analyses Twitter responses to the death of musician David Bowie as an inroad to a discussion about characteristics and functions of Twitter in the mediated relationships between celebrities, fans and the popular culture industry. The study focuses on questions regarding the nature of the Twitter community, types of emotions as well as expressions of fan creativity and the composition of online mourners. To this end, it provides a broad analysis of all tweets with #Bowie in the first 48 h after Bowie passed away ( N = 252,318) and in-depth, quantitative and qualitative analysis of tweets with 100+ retweets ( N = 130). Results show high levels of retweeting and a limited number of tweets retweeted exceptionally often, suggesting a Twitter ‘elite’ leading the online mourning. This elite consists predominantly of media figures, celebrities, artists and music industry representatives rather than ‘regular’ individuals and fans, resulting in limited expressions of parasocial relationships. Besides being conduits of expressions of grief and information exchange, tweets focus on positive affirmation in tribute to Bowie’s work. Results confirm that Twitter provides a virtual gathering of mourners who are (presumably) looking for recognition of loss and for expressions of support.
45
Hopkins, Susan. "UN celebrity ‘It’ girls as public relations-ised humanitarianism." International Communication Gazette 80, no. 3 (August 25, 2017): 273–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1748048517727223.
Full textAbstract:
This article combines framing analysis and critical textual analysis in a qualitative investigation of the ways in which popular culture texts, in particular articles in Australian women's magazines, frame transnational celebrity activism. Using three recent case studies of commercial representations of popular female celebrities – Nicole Kidman in Marie Claire (Australia), Angelina Jolie in Vogue (Australia) and Emma Watson in Cleo (Australia) – this study dissects framing devices to reveal the discursive tensions which lie beneath textual constructions of celebrity humanitarianism. Through a focus on United Nations Women's Goodwill Ambassadors, and their exemplary performances of popular humanitarianism, I argue that feminist celebrity activists may inadvertently contradict the cause of global gender equality by operating within the limits of celebrity publicity images and discourses. Moreover, the deployment of celebrity women, who have built their vast wealth and global influence through the commodification of Western ideals of beauty and femininity, betrays an approach to humanitarianism, which is grounded in the intersection of neocolonial global capitalism, liberal feminism and the ethics of competitive individualism.
46
Ha, Jarryn. "Uncles’ Generation: Adult Male Fans and Alternative Masculinities in South Korean Popular Music (Translation into Russian)." Corpus Mundi 2, no. 3 (November 9, 2021): 50–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.46539/cmj.v2i3.48.
Full textAbstract:
This article discusses the recent emergence of adult male fans of Korean pop (K-pop) music who openly engage themselves in fan activities typically associated with teenagers (particularly teenage girls) and the significance of their adoration of young female celebrities. The recent appearance of the ‘samchon/uncle fans’ in the K-pop culture discourse marks the first instance since the early 1990s, when teenagers became the primary target audience of South Korea’s entertainment industry, in which male adults reclaimed a significant position as a demographic group of fans. The samchon fans differ from the traditional ajossi (middle-aged, patriarchal men) listeners of adult contemporary music in the kinds of singers and musical genres to which they listen, as well as in their self-identification as fans, participation in fan activities and mass media portrayals. I investigate the implications of the men’s consumption pattern and their representation in South Korean mass media within the contexts of the history of the construction of hegemonic masculinity in South Korea and of recent developments in East Asian popular culture. I also explore possible ways to apply, complicate and question existing theoretical and conceptual frameworks to explain the phenomenon and argue for the possibility of politically potent, alternative masculinities constructed and manifested through the men’s conspicuous consumption of cultural commodities.
47
Klopfenstein, M. "THE OPERATICS OF DEATH: GENDER, THE MARKET, AND THE REFORM-ERA PUBLIC SPHERE IN THE DEATH OF ANGIOLINA BOSIO." Вестник Пермского университета. История, no. 4(55) (2021): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2219-3111-2021-4-13-24.
Full textAbstract:
This article analyzes the development of a gendered culture of celebrity in nineteenth century Russia using the death of the opera singer Angiolina Bosio in 1859. Bosio was one of the leading celebrities of her era, and her death became a major social phenomenon. The article examines reactions to the singer’s death in the capital press to demonstrate that the figure of the celebrity female performer reflected major changes in the public sphere during the era of the Great Reforms. Reactions to Bosio show that female opera stars reflected the growing role of commercial forces in the public sphere and the anxiety about them from the point of view of many commentators. This article demonstrates that female celebrities reveal the dynamics of an expanding public sphere in Russia that was visible in the pages of the press. Bosio embodied both the ambiguous status of opera as both a popular and elite artistic genre, and a distinct emotional culture associated with opera. Her death shows the role of gender in the creation and dynamics of the role of celebrity in the textual public sphere. Analyzing reactions to Bosio’s death clearly demonstrates that gendered tropes and conventions from opera spread widely beyond the theater and influenced public life. Through the prism of her death, we can see the development of a public sphere in the which cultural boundaries blurred and European-wide operatic conventions became a model for public behavior.
48
Quinn, Brian. "The Alert Collector: Sources to Ponder: Developing a Meditation Collection." Reference & User Services Quarterly 58, no. 2 (January 18, 2019): 76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/rusq.58.2.6926.
Full textAbstract:
Meditation practices date back thousands of years to the forest-dwelling rishis of Asia who viewed it as a way to achieve spiritual growth leading to enlightenment. Meditation has today become an increasingly popular practice in mainstream western culture. News media continually churn out stories about the latest scientific results showing the physical, mental, and social benefits of meditating. Celebrities and athletes from the Beatles to David Lynch to LeBron James talk about how meditation has influenced their life and work. Meditation is practiced in corporations and boardrooms and is used in military training programs. Meditation has become commodified and commercialized, with meditation studios springing up in major cities, books about meditation hitting bestseller lists, and Silicon Valley engineers producing meditation apps by the dozens.
49
Davydov, Dmitry. "Unpredictable post-capitalism: subtraction and competition in the sphere of “personality production”." Socium i vlast 6 (2020): 88–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22394/1996-0522-2020-6-88-99.
Full textAbstract:
The article develops the idea of forming postcapitalist social relations as a social revolution of an individual, which consists in the fact that popularity becomes a key advantage, the “possession” of which is a desired goal and a significant resource of political influence. At the same time, it is shown that this process leads to forming a new dominant stratum — personalities (“people with personality”): celebrities, popular bloggers, social media influencers, micro- and nanosignature. It is substantiated that the personaliat domination is a consequence of contradictory social relations between the new aristocracy represented by the representatives of the personaliat and many people who do not “possess” a popular personality - the impersonaliat (“extra people”, “lower” precariat, those who turn out to be outsiders in the world of social platforms). This contradiction is associated with the rooting of a celebrity’s culture, which encourages a lot of people to fight for popularity and focus on finding advantageous differences from others in the process of self-realization. However, this struggle in the end for the overwhelming majority turns into an increase in creative competition and subtraction. Various new forms of subtraction that appear in situations of widespread self-realization are revealed. Accordingly, arguments are given in favor of the fact that in the context of the “personality revolution”, the truly left will be rather an alternative that will call into question the ways of solving social problems formulated by popular personalities. In other words, it will be possible to oppose the total pursuit of popularity with the projects of society, in which the person is relied not as someone who rises above the others, but as an involved person who values life in harmony with others higher than his own “I”.
50
McMullan, John L., and Delthia Miller. "All in! The commercial advertising of offshore gambling on television." Journal of Gambling Issues, no. 22 (December 1, 2008): 230. http://dx.doi.org/10.4309/jgi.2008.22.6.
Full textAbstract:
There is a paucity of research on the advertising of gambling, especially the intensely marketed Internet poker and blackjack games. This study examines ads that aired on cable television in one Canadian jurisdiction. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, we analyze 64 distinct commercials that aired 904 times over a 6-month period. Our findings show that these ads target audiences along age, gender, and ethnic lines and mobilize celebrities, excitement, and humour as persuasive techniques to promote the view that on-line gambling is an entertainment experience in which skill prevails over luck, winning dominates losing, fantasy overshadows reality, leisure trumps work, and the potential for personal change eclipses the routines of everyday life. We conclude that the e-gambling advertising assemblage, with its high-volume exposure, attractiveness, pervasiveness, and repetitiveness of messaging is now an embedded feature of everyday life that is especially connected to popular sport culture and to the fun ethic of contemporary consumer culture.