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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.

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

Product details

Published 23 May 2024
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 212
ISBN 9781666922431
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 3 BW Illustrations, 6 Tables
Dimensions 237 x 159 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Gaëlle Ouvrein

Gaëlle Ouvrein is assistant professor in the…

Anthology Editor

Ana Jorge

Ana Jorge is associate professor of media and comm…

Anthology Editor

Hilde Van den Bulck

Hilde Van den Bulck is professor of communication…

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Gwen Bouvier

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Mihai Coman

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Paulien Decorte

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Simone Driessen

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Qiang Geng

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David C. Giles

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Ana Jorge

Ana Jorge is associate professor of media and comm…

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Gaëlle Ouvrein

Gaëlle Ouvrein is assistant professor in the…

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Samantha Tecson

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Hilde Van den Bulck

Hilde Van den Bulck is professor of communication…

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