CMST 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Celebrity Culture, Cultural Capital, Tiger Woods
5 Jan 2018
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Talk and think about how new interactivity media technologies are transforming the nature of how we engage with media as audiences. The experience of celebrity to think about how media technologies are reorganizing this notion. Ordinary individuals can occupy subject position of celebrity using social media technologies as athletes, musicians, actors, etc. It"s not just micro-celebrity who participate this in this culture, but we are all acting as if we are celebrities and it comes with the proliferation of these technologies. :micro-celebrity today, fashion and food bloggers, youtube personalities, vine (rip) comedians have all achieved moderate levels of celebrity: the prototype micro-celebrity is a youtube personality, people who are famous, but not. Celebrity" in the social media age is a range of techniques and strategies that can be performed by anyone with a mobile device, tablet, or laptop. alice marcrick.
