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‘I Want to Look Like That!’: Cosmetic Surgery and Celebrity Culture:
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In this paper, the power of celebrity culture in relation to the rise of cosmetic surgery is examined, and a perspective developed is one that attempts to bridge certain developments in social media.Abstract:
This article critically examines the power of celebrity culture in relation to the rise of cosmetic surgery. The perspective developed is one that attempts to bridge certain developments in social ...read more
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Celebrity, ageing and the construction of ‘third age’ identities:
Barbara L. Marshall,Momin Rahman +1 more
TL;DR: The authors explored celebrity as a point of articulation between consumer culture and the reconfiguration of ageing lifestyles and identities in contemporary culture, described by cultural gerontologists as the third age.
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Charlie is so "English"-like: nationality and the branded celebrity person in the age of YouTube
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the process of self-branding and self-celebrification utilises the power of identity myths to help assist the construction of a celebrity persona.
Sociología de los cuerpos/emociones
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the division between a sociology of the bodies and the emotions is unnecessary, as if there were any chance of one not referring to the other and viceversa.
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Prekäre Körper in prekären Zeiten – Ambivalenzen gegenwärtiger somatischer Technologien des Selbst
TL;DR: Selbstbestimmung als Masstab ‚zeitgemaser‘ Medizin, medizinische Fertigkeiten im Dienst der Selbst bestimmung des Patienten, so plausibilisiert ein Arzt sein Tun as mentioned in this paper.
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Mass communication and para-social interaction; observations on intimacy at a distance.
Donald Horton,R. Richard Wohl +1 more
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TL;DR: Castoriadis's "The Imaginary Institution of Society" as discussed by the authors is one of the most important works of contemporary European thought, and it is the most original, ambitious, and reflective attempt to think through the liberating mediation of history, society, external and internal nature once again as praxis.
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The Beauty Myth
TL;DR: The authors examines the tyranny of the beauty myth throughout the ages, revealing how women are coerced or seduced into conspiring with the myth to become their own jailers and torturers, and shows how women can free themselves.