Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1923718
P. Marshall
ABSTRACT This article looks at the emerging comfortability with how selling the self has become normalized transnationally. Commodifying the self has been the natural province of celebrities: they use their visibility for their own ends, but also to draw attention to particular issues that are beyond their celebrity value. These activities represent a form of agency and a means of effecting change and a technique to draw collective attention and action to particular events, activities and causes. The kind of agency that celebrities bring to the public world is infused with “Industrialized” Agency. This form of Industrialized Agency (IA) has been naturalized as billions now engage in some form of persona construction for the attention economy through their elaborate uses of social media. This transformation identifies the emergence of a new cultural politics that is connected to the successes of this widespread deployment of IA.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-24DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1939032
Elizabeth Fish Hatfield
Over the past few years, the topics of consent, sexual assault, and women’s rights have been addressed both by major social movements and newsworthy events. With the rise of #metoo, #timesup, the e...
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Pub Date : 2021-06-17DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1922690
M. Semati, Kate Zambon
ABSTRACT The proliferation of celebrity studies across multiple fields and disciplines demonstrates an emerging scholarly consensus about the importance of celebrity for understanding the present conjuncture, contemporary capitalism, and its cultural politics. However, celebrity studies have largely neglected transnational and global theories and contexts, which, with the notable exception of studies in development and humanitarianism, tend to focus on Anglophone publics within the Global North. Studying celebrity from a critical transnational perspective allows us to deploy the insights of this literature while building its theoretical reach, scope, and utility. The goal is not only to expand representation but also to generate stronger theory. This special issue brings together research focusing on transnational issues of celebrity as a technology of soft power, counter-hegemonic organizing, and discourses of race and migration. It also explores self-presentation and self-branding in the globalized attention economy.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-31DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1929995
S. Ödmark, Jonas Harvard
ABSTRACT In the high-choice media landscape, satire has the potential to help news and politics break through information apathy barriers and reinvigorate democratic debate. While scholarly attention to the genre of satire has increased, interest in satirists themselves has been sparse. Using a theory of non-deliberative forms of public discourse and the idea of role conceptions, this study presents an analysis of interviews with Swedish satirists working in broadcasting media. Results showed that being Eye-openers and Questioners – meaning providing alternative perspectives and problematizing societal norms – were the primary contributions of satire, according to satirists. There were differing roles to take on when it came to social bonding and solidarity: Unifier, where the aim was to be bridge-building in a polarized debate, and Divider, where the main focus was to inspire critical thinking and foster independence from consensus. The role elements Reporter, Explainer and Solver were also introduced and discussed.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-12DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1919679
A. Major
ABSTRACT This article charts the rise and fall of FilmStruck – Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Criterion Collection’s cinema-specific streaming service. Despite its premier specialty film catalog (e.g., art-house, international, independent, and classic cinema) and loyal fans, WarnerMedia shuttered the service in 2018 – after two years in business. This article argues that FilmStruck’s demise revealed the limitations of cinema-specific models and the precarious status of specialty cinema in the streaming sector. Specifically, this article analyzes FilmStruck’s curation in relation to TCM and Criterion Collection’s respective cable programming and physical media practices. Doing so reveals that FilmStruck’s founders and professionals endeavored to reconfigure specialty cinema’s meanings and reaffirm the values of film-oriented practices in the streaming context. Ultimately, by historically situating FilmStruck’s trajectory and strategies within larger institutional contexts, this article illuminates modest, yet nonetheless important struggles over business models, cultural value, media specificity, and professional identities in the tumultuous 2010s-era streaming landscape.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-06DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1922689
Carrie M. Murawski
Although a book exploring the relationship between dance and digital culture might not be an obvious choice for critical cultural scholars, Harmony Bench’s Perpetual Motion: Dance, Digital Cultures...
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Pub Date : 2021-04-19DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1913496
Courtney D Tabor
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Pub Date : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1913493
P. Murphy
ABSTRACT Greta Thunberg is the world’s best-known environmental activist. She has been covered by the international press, featured on television talk shows, presented in music videos, and been the object of social media memes – a visibility that has made her a global celebrity. But unlike other public figures whose stardom is attached to, rather than driven by environmental activism, Thunberg’s eco-celebrity is anchored to her role in starting a global climate movement. Her activism is youth-centric and her eco-politics highly confrontational. Focusing on English language media from around the world, this essay explores how Thunberg’s rise to global eco-celebrity has been media-centric while still being remarkably resistant to co-optation within the broader terrain of climate change politics. Emphasis is placed on how Thunberg has used her celebrity status to take aim at the material realities and social practices that have caused the climate crisis, and push for radical and immediate change.
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Pub Date : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1902529
M. Hutt
ABSTRACT The major earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015 inspired a flurry of literary and cultural production, including the creation and online publication of over 50 earthquake-related music videos. Although they share a common thematic focus, these videos’ representations of the earthquake aftermath and the Nepali people’s response to the disaster diverge from one another in some important respects. Through a detailed analysis of the lyrical, musical and visual content of a selection of five of these videos, and drawing upon recent research on digital cultures, the article asks to what extent these divergences reflect an attempt by online content creators to address Nepali publics (whether domestic, diasporic, urban, rural or gendered) that they imagine and construct in different ways.
{"title":"Earthquake aftersongs: music videos and the imagining of an online Nepali public","authors":"M. Hutt","doi":"10.1080/15405702.2021.1902529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15405702.2021.1902529","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The major earthquake that struck central Nepal in April 2015 inspired a flurry of literary and cultural production, including the creation and online publication of over 50 earthquake-related music videos. Although they share a common thematic focus, these videos’ representations of the earthquake aftermath and the Nepali people’s response to the disaster diverge from one another in some important respects. Through a detailed analysis of the lyrical, musical and visual content of a selection of five of these videos, and drawing upon recent research on digital cultures, the article asks to what extent these divergences reflect an attempt by online content creators to address Nepali publics (whether domestic, diasporic, urban, rural or gendered) that they imagine and construct in different ways.","PeriodicalId":45584,"journal":{"name":"Popular Communication","volume":"20 1","pages":"42 - 59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2021-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/15405702.2021.1902529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48999819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-04-16DOI: 10.1080/15405702.2021.1913494
Ece Algan, Yeşim Kaptan
ABSTRACT With the increasing popularity of Turkish television dramas, actors from Turkish TV series have become global celebrities with hundreds of millions of fans worldwide. In this paper, drawing on a political economy of communication analysis, we investigate the ways in which the Turkish government utilizes Turkish TV series’ actors’ celebrity status to further its foreign policy agenda with respect to soft power. We argue that in the Turkish case, celebrity diplomacy or the instrumentalization of celebrities for state ambitions of soft power necessitates a reliance on commercial television exports for nation branding. This brings its own contradictions and consequences as the image and meaning desired by the Turkish government does not always align with what the TV industry creates when competing in the global TV marketplace.
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