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Of local and global fame: A comparative analysis of news items and audience reactions on celebrity news websites People, Heat, and HLN
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In this article, the authors describe how people follow global celebrities' lives almost in real-time, while communities create their own celebrities, of great local fame but unknown internationally. Examining the People (USA),Abstract:
Worldwide, people follow global celebrities’ lives almost in real time, while communities create their own celebrities, of great local fame but unknown internationally. Examining the People (USA), ...read more
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Understanding CelebrityUnderstanding Celebrity, by TurnerGraeme. London, UK; Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004. 148 pp. $115.00 cloth. ISBN: 0-7619-4167-3. $36.95 paper. ISBN: 0-7619-4168-1.
TL;DR: Turner as discussed by the authors argues that celebrity is not only about making parasocial, or imagined, connections with celebrity, but also about making personal connections based on perceived similarities, and argues that it is even more powerful when the consumer identifies with similar traits or circumstances in the celebrity's life or person.
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‘There’s a Starman waiting in the sky’: Mourning David #Bowie on Twitter:
TL;DR: This paper analyzed 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 celebrants and celebrants, and concluded that Twitter is a mediator between celebrities and their fans.
Understanding Media Inside Celebrity
TL;DR: The understanding media inside celebrity is universally compatible with any devices to read and is available in the authors' digital library an online access to it is set as public so you can get it instantly.
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Celebrity critiquing: hot or not? Teen girls’ attitudes on and responses to the practice of negative celebrity critiquing
TL;DR: By conducting focus groups with teen girls, the authors explored female adolescents' responses to and perceptions of increasingly negative, scandal-driven critiquing of celebrities, and found that teenagers at first were entertained by the comments about celebrities, but disapproved of cases that seemed to be intended to hurt the celebrity.
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