CMST 3K03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Daniel J. Boorstin, Emma Watson, Lifestyle Guru
5 Jan 2018
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Technology like the web and video games, make a new audience activity. Even if we allow that audiences have always been interactive with media content, and notions of the mass audience. One way to think about audience activity that new media technologies allowed. The difference in relationship with audience and the celebrity (youtube and twitter) Drawing an opposition between what we understand is celebrity, and what is called fame. Before modern media, the famous were well-known because of either who they were or what they had done: known for being born into a great family/house/latest descendent of kings and queens. The celebrity is a person who is well-known for their well-knownness. daniel boorstin. The celebrity is someone who is known for being known there"s a whole range of actors and artists of who we know and recognize because other people recognized them. But you will know that they are supposed to be a big deal.
