CMST 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Daniel J. Boorstin, Celebrity Culture, Unique Selling Proposition
11 Dec 2017
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2. 9 from audience to influencer celebrity and micro-celebrity in the networked age. Strictly speaking, fame predates modern society and mass media technologies: monarchs, religious leaders, etc. were all famous long before appearance of media technologies and industries like cinema or television. But celebrity combination of outsized personalities to whom publics feel intimate connection is in many ways creation of modern mass media. Before modern media, the famous were well-known because of either who they were or what they had done. With the rise of celebrity, people could become recognizable all the over world based on how they were promoted. The celebrity is a person who is well-known for their well-knownness. : daniel boorstin. To be sure, some nascent forms of celebrity preexisted mass or broadcast media; and today, the distinction between celebrity and fame is increasingly blurring, with famous politicians becoming celebrities in their own right (and vice versa) On exam vs: fame vs celebrity, celebrification vs celebritization celebrification.
