Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines [Hardcover]

Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplinesexplores 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.

Ga?lle Ouvreinis assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Brussels.
Ana Jorgeis associate professor of media and communications at Lus?fona University.
Hilde Van den Bulckis professor of communication studies at Drexel University.

Introduction: Celebrity Studies Coming of Age by Ga?lle 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 Ga?lle Ouvrein
Part II: Celebrity and Identity
Chapter 3: Celebrity Activism as Discursive Representation: A Case StulSS