Essays about: "Taylor Swift"
Found 4 essays containing the words Taylor Swift.
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1. “Every Time You Call Me Crazy I Get More Crazy”: Sylvia Plath, Taylor Swift, and Confessional Performances
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – MediaAbstract : This thesis explores the works and personas of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift and analyses the popular conflations of their real lives and their works. Jon Helt Haarder’s theory of biographical performativity is introduced to analyse the threshold aesthetics between reality and art and investigate the feedback loops between oeuvres andlives as well as the interpretation of these in the public sphere. READ MORE
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2. “I am the problem, it’s me” : A Netnographic Analysis of ‘Swiftie’ Prosumers on YouTube Shorts
University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3)Abstract : The popularity of Taylor Swift has been growing rapidly on social media after the release of her ‘Midnights’ album on 21 October 2022. The lead single of the album, ‘Anti- Hero’ and the ‘Anti-Hero Challenge’ initiated by the singer inspired 17 thousand fans (Swifties) to share their own anti-heroic stories inspired by the song. READ MORE
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3. Construction of knowledge in online fandom spaces : Sexuality discourse in Taylor Swift fans' subreddits
University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för kultur- och medievetenskaperAbstract : This study explores how knowledge and reality is constructed within an online fandom’s communication, with a focus on LGBTQ+ discourse within Taylor Swift’s fans on Reddit. This is done through a qualitative digital ethnographic method and uses LGBTQ+ symbols and parasocial relationships as tools to analyse 75 posts and 850 comments total. READ MORE
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4. Love Song
University essay from Konstfack/Institutionen för Konst (K)Abstract : Love Song is an essay about romance, passion, obsession, attraction, Eros, intoxication, infatuation, to fall in love and love. Love songs, as artworks, are almost always directed towards a nameless “you” and this essay wants to talk to you. READ MORE