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Author: Erin A. Meyers Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 081359944X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 155
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Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine. Erin A. Meyers connects the economic and industrial forces that helped propel Us Weekly to the top of the celebrity gossip market in the early 2000s with the ways in which reality television cast members fit neatly into the social and cultural norms that shaped the successful gossip formulas of the magazine. Us Weekly’s construction of the “extraordinarily ordinary” celebrity within its gossip narratives is a significant symptom of the broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness and the private in the production of contemporary celebrity, in which fame is paradoxically grounded in “just being yourself” while simultaneously defining what the “right” sort of self is in contemporary culture.
Author: Erin A. Meyers Publisher: Rutgers University Press ISBN: 081359944X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 155
Book Description
Extraordinarily Ordinary offers a critical analysis of the production of a distinct form of twenty-first century celebrity constructed through the exploding coverage of reality television cast members in Us Weekly magazine. Erin A. Meyers connects the economic and industrial forces that helped propel Us Weekly to the top of the celebrity gossip market in the early 2000s with the ways in which reality television cast members fit neatly into the social and cultural norms that shaped the successful gossip formulas of the magazine. Us Weekly’s construction of the “extraordinarily ordinary” celebrity within its gossip narratives is a significant symptom of the broader intensification of discourses of ordinariness and the private in the production of contemporary celebrity, in which fame is paradoxically grounded in “just being yourself” while simultaneously defining what the “right” sort of self is in contemporary culture.
Author: P. David Marshall Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1118474929 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 578
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Companion to Celebrity presents a multi-disciplinary collection of original essays that explore myriad issues relating to the origins, evolution, and current trends in the field of celebrity studies. Offers a detailed, systematic, and clear presentation of all aspects of celebrity studies, with a structure that carefully build its enquiry Draws on the latest scholarly developments in celebrity analyses Presents new and provocative ways of exploring celebrity’s meanings and textures Considers the revolutionary ways in which new social media have impacted on the production and consumption of celebrity
Author: Aric Rindfleisch Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing ISBN: 1787563413 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 294
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Marketing in a Digital World consists of nine essays on how the digital revolution has affected marketing theory and practice. Leading marketing scholars, including several editors of premier academic journals, provide fresh insights for both scholars and managers seeking to enhance their understanding of marketing in a digital world.
Author: Kathleen Feeley Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137442301 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 423
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Gossip is one of the most common, and most condemned, forms of discourse in which we engage - even as it is often absorbing and socially significant, it is also widely denigrated. This volume examines fascinating moments in the history of gossip in America, from witchcraft trials to People magazine, helping us to see the subject with new eyes.
Author: Patrick Scolyer-Gray Publisher: Patrick Scolyer-Gray ISBN: 0645604402 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 437
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Millions of people are producing and consuming knowledge via the digital components of the globalised, interconnected, and participatory “media ecosystem”, and this continues to have significant implications for society. However, the Internet exceeds the proverbial ‘bandwidth’ of researchers, and countless platforms and online environments have been overlooked and/or understudied. Consequently, there are substantial blind spots in what is known about the notorious and fully anonymous imageboard 4chan.org. 4chan ‘disproportionately’ influences the media ecosystem, and played a significant role in the consolidation of the extremist ‘alt-right’ and ‘Incel’ movements, but little is known about 4chan’s userbase. Based on the output of the PhD research of the same name, Dr Patrick Scolyer-Gray’s Fiction and Falsehood explores three research objectives, each achieved via a sociological mixed-methods ethnographic research design. First, using a combination of survey and interview data, the socio-political discourses that most frequently influence the socio-political perspectives of 4chan’s users are identified. The text offers empirical evidence that the most influential socio-political discourses on 4chan are consistent with an alt-right ideological framework. Second, how and why 4chan-discourses became integrated into the socio-political perspectives of the userbase is explored. The fine-grained insight provided by in-depth semi-structured interviews with 4chan-users is combined with Bourdieu’s ‘theory of practice’ to produce an explanatory framework based on ‘habitus-field congruency’. Third, empirical evidence of 4chan’s relationship with the public sphere is provided, and the implications of this relationship are explored. A formidable body of evidence dovetails into the author's argument that the memes produced by 4chan-users represent ‘symbolic ordnance’ that influence the public sphere by having a ‘disproportionate’ impact on the development of public opinion. A series of additional issues raised by 4chan’s relationship with the public sphere are also highlighted. 4chan, its users, the productions featured on the platform, intersections between discourses borne out of (or amplified by) 4chan and the broader information ecosystem and their respective interconnected relationships are examined in granular detail. Additionally, Fiction and Falsehood offers fresh insights into the origins and significance of the alt-right, a detailed exposition of methodological techniques of novelty and enduring relevance to researchers and private practitioners alike, and unique findings that will appeal to any reader interested in how online spaces are connected to broader societal trends.
Author: Elana Levine Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252097661 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 297
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Media expansion into the digital realm and the continuing segregation of users into niches has led to a proliferation of cultural products targeted to and consumed by women. Though often dismissed as frivolous or excessively emotional, feminized culture in reality offers compelling insights into the American experience of the early twenty-first century. Elana Levine brings together writings from feminist critics that chart the current terrain of feminized pop cultural production. Analyzing everything from Fifty Shades of Grey to Pinterest to pregnancy apps, contributors examine the economic, technological, representational, and experiential dimensions of products and phenomena that speak to, and about, the feminine. As these essays show, the imperative of productivity currently permeating feminized pop culture has created a generation of texts that speak as much to women's roles as public and private workers as to an impulse for fantasy or escape. Incisive and compelling, Cupcakes, Pinterest, and Ladyporn sheds new light on contemporary women's engagement with an array of media forms in the context of postfeminist culture and neoliberalism.
Author: Maud Lavin Publisher: Hong Kong University Press ISBN: 9888390805 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 293
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Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation, Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans’ diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity, identity, and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinese-speaking contexts, the essays in this volume challenge long-established Western-centric and Japanese-focused fan scholarship by highlighting the significance and specificities of Sinophone queer fan cultures and practices in a globalized world. The geographic organization of the chapters illuminates cultural differences and the other competing forces shaping geocultural intersections among fandoms based in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. “This important collection complicates our understanding of fan practices, showing how national and regional factors play an important role in how media texts and identities are understood. It also shows how the Chinese-speaking world is home to dense and often conflicting modes of audience reception of cultural texts deriving from Sinophone, Japanese, and Western contexts.” —Mark McLelland, University of Wollongong “An exciting anthology by a talented group of emergent scholars whose vibrant studies offer fresh insights on the diverse practices and transregional flows of queer fandom in the Chinese-speaking world. Local in its specificity and transnational in its scope, this book highlights the creativity of queer fan practices while critically locating them within the political and social structures that produce them.” —Helen Hok-Sze Leung, Simon Fraser University
Author: Delia Chiaro Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351379968 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 178
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In this accessible book, Delia Chiaro provides a fresh overview of the language of jokes in a globalized and digitalized world. The book shows how, while on the one hand the lingua-cultural nuts and bolts of jokes have remained unchanged over time, on the other, the time-space compression brought about by modern technology has generated new settings and new ways of joking and playing with language. The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age covers a wide range of settings from social networks, e-mails and memes, to more traditional fields of film and TV (especially sitcoms and game shows) and advertising. Chiaro’s consideration of the increasingly virtual context of jokes delights with both up-to-date examples and frequent reference to the most central theories of comedy. This lively book will be essential reading for any student or researcher working in the area of language and humour and will be of interest to those in language and media and sociolinguistics.
Author: Nicholas Kardaras Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1250098009 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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We’ve all seen them: kids hypnotically staring at glowing screens in restaurants, in playgrounds and in friends' houses—and the numbers are growing. Like a virtual scourge, the illuminated glowing faces—the Glow Kids—are multiplying. But at what cost? Is this just a harmless indulgence or fad like some sort of digital hula-hoop? Some say that glowing screens might even be good for kids—a form of interactive educational tool. Don’t believe it. In Glow Kids, Dr. Nicholas Kardaras will examine how technology—more specifically, age-inappropriate screen tech, with all of its glowing ubiquity—has profoundly affected the brains of an entire generation. Brain imaging research is showing that stimulating glowing screens are as dopaminergic (dopamine activating) to the brain’s pleasure center as sex. And a growing mountain of clinical research correlates screen tech with disorders like ADHD, addiction, anxiety, depression, increased aggression, and even psychosis. Most shocking of all, recent brain imaging studies conclusively show that excessive screen exposure can neurologically damage a young person’s developing brain in the same way that cocaine addiction can. Kardaras will dive into the sociological, psychological, cultural, and economic factors involved in the global tech epidemic with one major goal: to explore the effect all of our wonderful shiny new technology is having on kids. Glow Kids also includes an opt-out letter and a "quiz" for parents in the back of the book.
Author: Trevor J. Blank Publisher: University Press of Colorado ISBN: 145717474X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 436
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A pioneering examination of the folkloric qualities of the World Wide Web, e-mail, and related digital media. These stuidies show that folk culture, sustained by a new and evolving vernacular, has been a key, since the Internet's beginnings, to language, practice, and interaction online. Users of many sorts continue to develop the Internet as a significant medium for generating, transmitting, documenting, and preserving folklore. In a set of new, insightful essays, contributors Trevor J. Blank, Simon J. Bronner, Robert Dobler, Russell Frank, Gregory Hansen, Robert Glenn Howard, Lynne S. McNeill, Elizabeth Tucker, and William Westerman showcase ways the Internet both shapes and is shaped by folklore
Author: Erin A. Meyers
Author: Erin A. Meyers
Author: P. David Marshall
Author: Aric Rindfleisch
Author: Kathleen Feeley
Author: Patrick Scolyer-Gray
Author: Elana Levine
Author: Maud Lavin
Author: Delia Chiaro
Author: Nicholas Kardaras
Author: Trevor J. Blank