Kelli S. Burns

Celeb 2.0 (eBook, ePUB)

How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip.

With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking "tweeting" more famous than his films, and Perez Hilton actually getting more attention than Paris, the actress often covered in his blog, the worlds of celebrity celebration and online social networking are pushing the public's crush on the famous and infamous into overdrive. Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture explores this phenomenon.

Celeb 2.0 looks at how blogs, video sharing sites, user-news sites, social networks, and message boards are fueling America's already voracious consumption of pop culture. Full of fascinating insights and interviews, the book looks at how celebrities use blogs, Twitter, and other tools, how YouTube and other sites create celebrity, how Web 2.0 shortens the distance between fans and stars, and how the new social media influences news reporting and series television.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216058533
• Artikelnr.: 70036942

Autorenporträt

Kelli S. Burns, PhD, is an assistant professor in the School of Mass Communications at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION 1. THE STALKERAZZI: STALKING STARS IN THE
BLOGOSPHERE 2. THE BLOGEBRITIES: WIELDING THE POWER OF THE KEYSTROKE 3.
REALITY TELEVISION BLOGS: MAKING REALITY MORE REAL 4. CELEBRITY HOT SPOTS:
ENGAGING FANS THROUGH BLOGS 5. YOUTUBE STARS: SHOOTING FOR FAME AND FORTUNE
6. FROM MEMES TO MASHUPS: CREATING CONTENT FROM CONTENT 7. MUST-NOT-SEE TV:
MOVING TELEVISION VIEWERS ONLINE 8. MUSICIANS ON MYSPACE: BRINGING MUSIC TO
THE MASSES 9. FROM SILVER SCREENS TO COMPUTER SCREENS: MARKETING MOVIES ON
MYSPACE 10. FAN CHATTER MATTERS: MEETING UP ON MESSAGE BOARDS 11. MUSIC
MESSAGE BOARDS: FUELING FANATICAL FANS 12. FROM MAINSTREAM TO SOCIAL MEDIA:
GIVING POWER TO THE PEOPLE 13. PRIMETIME SOCIAL MEDIA: ADDING ONLINE TO
STORY LINES CONCLUSION NOTES INDEX