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Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines explores current understandings of celebrity-audience relationships in the context of digitalization and the ongoing celebritization of all aspects of culture and society. Focusing on the themes of celebrity and health, celebrity and identity, and celebrity and scandal, this volume presents chapters authored by experts from across the globe that deal with celebrity-audience relationships in different historical, cultural, and social settings, tackling the topics from social-psychological, critical/cultural, and persuasive perspectives. In doing so, this book highlights the broadening of disciplinary, paradigmatic, theoretical, and methodological approaches to celebrity studies research. By bringing these different approaches together in one book and drawing overall conclusions across chapters, the editors and contributors of this volume promote and facilitate cross-fertilization in ongoing efforts to grasp the fascinating complexity of celebrity-audiences relationships. Scholars of media, pop culture, and celebrity studies will find this collection particularly useful.

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Author:   Gaëlle Ouvrein ,  Ana Jorge ,  Hilde Van den Bulck ,  Gwen Bouvier
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
ISBN:  

9781666922431

ISBN 10:   1666922439
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   15 May 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Celebrity Studies Coming of Age by Gaëlle Ouvrein, Ana Jorge, and Hilde Van den Bulck Part I: Celebrity and Health Chapter 1: Analyzing Digital Audiences: A Case Study of YouTuber Depression Videos by David C. Giles Chapter 2: Vegan Influencers Providing Audience Safe Spaces? Exploring Two-Way Interactions and Reciprocity on Instagram by Paulien Decorte and Gaëlle Ouvrein Part II: Celebrity and Identity Chapter 3: Celebrity Activism as Discursive Representation: A Case Study of the Brazilian Singer Daniela Mercury and LGBTQ Rights in Brazil by Pedro Paixão-Rocha and Regiane Lucas Garcêz Chapter 4: Commodifying the Biracial: Zendaya from Disney Childhood to HBO Adulthood by Samantha Tecson Chapter 5: Audience Relations to African American Athletes’ Activism from a Diachronic, Media Ecology and Celebrity Apparatus Perspective: Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Colin Kaepernick by Alexander Jenkins and Hilde Van den Bulck Part III: Celebrity and Scandal/Cancel Culture Chapter 6: Bad Dreams Are Only Dreams, or Aren’t They? Examining How Dutch Fans of Marco Borsato Negotiate Their Fandom After His Cancellation by Simone Driessen Chapter 7: How Networked Publics create a Sense of Community and Mobilization on Twitter: The Case of Supporting/Hating Johnny Depp versus Amber Heard by Gwen Bouvier and Qian Geng Chapter 8: Celebrity-Priests and their Followers’ Online Communities: From Adoration to Condemnation by Mihai Coman Conclusion: Toward a Multidimensional Framework for Analysing Audiences and their Relationships with Celebrities or Influencers by Olivier Driessens

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Gaëlle Ouvrein is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Brussels. Ana Jorge is associate professor of media and communications at Lusófona University. Hilde Van den Bulck is professor of communication studies at Drexel University.

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