Global Politics of Celebrity (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Semati, Mehdi; Zambon, Kate

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reaching beyond the Global North, this book showcases research on transnational celebrity as a technology of soft power and counter-hegemonic organizing, and as a driver of discourses of race and migration. It also explores self-presentation and self-branding in the globalized attention economy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000894127
• Artikelnr.: 67879900

Autorenporträt

Mehdi Semati is Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA. His writings on international communication and global media have appeared in various scholarly journals. He is the co-author of Iran and the American Media: Press Coverage of the 'Iran Deal' in Context (2021). Kate Zambon is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA. Her research in global media studies focuses on the politics of nationalism, migration, and cultural difference in Germany and Europe through the analysis of international sporting events, news, and entertainment media.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. The commodified celebrity-self: industrialized agency and
the contemporary attention economy 2. Offshoring & leaking: Cristiano
Ronaldo's tax evasion, and celebrity in neoliberal times 3. Speaking for
the youth, speaking for the planet: Greta Thunberg and the representational
politics of eco-celebrity 4. Celebrity migrants and the racialized logic of
integration in Germany 5. Turkey's TV celebrities as cultural envoys: the
role of celebrity diplomacy in nation branding and the pursuit of soft
power 6. Micro-celebrity practices in Muslim-majority states in Southeast
Asia 7. Symbolic bordering: The self-representation of migrants and
refugees in digital news 8. Refugee testimonies enacted: voice and
solidarity in media art installations 9. How can we tell the story of the
Colombian War?: Bastardized narratives and citizen celebrities 10.
Transcendental meditation's tipping point: the allure of celebrity on the
American spiritual marketplace