Essays about: "celebrity culture"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 22 essays containing the words celebrity culture.

  1. 11. Why Brands Still Cause Trouble : Revisiting Holt's dialectical theory of consumer culture and branding

    University essay from

    Author : Luis Grau; Andrei Vanetski; [2018]
    Keywords : brands; consumers; consumer culture; instagram; influencers; marketing; micro-celebrity; endorsement; Bourdieu s habitus; lacan s discourse;

    Abstract : The rise of social media in general and Instagram in particular has enabled a new type of celebrities, called micro-celebrities, that nowadays are being increasingly used by companies to endorse their products or establish their brands. While celebrity endorsement as a type of stealth branding together with some other marketing techniques characteristic of postmodernism were predicted to be unveiled and scorned by consumers (Holt, 2002), there are signs that through the practices of micro-celebrities, the language and logic of marketing have become even more ubiquitous in our contemporary social life (Khamis et al. READ MORE

  3. 12. “Busted!” “...And He's Got a Helluva Explanation for Why” : The Language Use in U.S. Based Online Celebrity Journalism

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Journalistik

    Author : Hanna-Mari Rämä; [2018]
    Keywords : celebrity culture; celebrity news; celebrification; tabloidization; corpus linguistics; rhetorical analysis; critical linguistics; Radar Online; TMZ;

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  4. 13. You are what you eat online : the phenomenon of mediated eating practices and their underlying moral regimes in Swedish “What I eat in a day” vlogs

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap

    Author : Christine Sandal; [2018]
    Keywords : foodies; food vlog; aestheticisation; micro celebrity; everyday expertise; eating practices; practice theory; field theory; cultural intermediaries; cultural change; Sweden; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : In Western societies, with increasingly salient mediation processes, eating, too, has become an entanglement of offline and online practices. Food as carrier of values has never merely satisfied bodily needs, which makes it essential to investigate mediated eating practices and emerging digital foodscapes in order to understand how they change everyday life, but also culture at large. READ MORE

  5. 14. WHO ARE U WEARING? : investigating iconic celebrity fashion images as dress

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Julia Ragnarsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Image; Body; Fashion; Mass Media; Celebrity; Approriation; Digital Print;

    Abstract : This collection is an observation of the relationship between celebrity culture, fashion and the female form. Exploring how the modern fashion image is communicated to a wider audience through mass media. At the same the work aims to explore new ways of developing clothing from a starting point in figurative prints. READ MORE

  6. 15. The Evolution of the Literary Hero The sociological impacts on hero driven literature

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Isabelle Johannesson; [2015-10-15]
    Keywords : The Hunger Games; dystopia; social criticism; media;

    Abstract : Abstract: The Hunger Games trilogy is a dystopian adventure tale told by a teenage girl living in future North America, now known as Panem. These young adult fiction novels, written by Suzanne Collins highlight several topical problems found within today’s society. READ MORE