Sign Up Now
Get instant access to over 1 million+ study documents
OR
Already registered? click here to login
By creating your account, you agree to our terms of service, privacy policy and student honor code.
¶ … Lindsay-Lohan-hires-private-detective-delve-background-psychic-took-Gloria-Allred-Represent-assault-case.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
It is impossible to read any newspaper's entertainment section this week and not read something about Lindsay Lohan. Lindsay Lohan encapsulates Marshall's concept of celebrity as requiring a "relatively stable media system," (634). Moreover, the news items related to Lindsay Lohan show how celebrities do fit the characteristics of being "out of control" with many "scandals" and lots of "gossip" (Marshall 634). Celebrity culture feeds the media, and the media feeds celebrity culture. As Marshall puts it, the relationship is "symbiotic," (634). One needs only to remember the way the paparazzi were responsible for the death of Lady Diana to understand how the relationship between the media and celebrity culture is an unhealthy one. Moreover, the reader, even without being familiar at all with Lindsay Lohan, celebrates her staunch individuality by identifying with her, and transforming the self via a vicarious look into the future because the article is about her seeing a psychic.
2) Element: http://www.colbertnation.com
As Marshall points out, the new incarnation of the culture of celebrity depends directly on new media. Celebrities milk social media, creating a narcissistic platform. As a two-way mirror, the celebrity projects an image of self "out there," and the viewer can offer direct feedback via the social media site. This is true for Facebook as well as for Twitter. Some celebrities have opted to create entire personas that are based on new media.
One of the most quintessentially postmodern celebrities is Stephen Colbert. In his television show that runs on the Comedy Network, appropriately titled The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert has fashioned for himself an ironic and complex multulayered persona. He has become a conservative pundit modeled after the likes of Rush Limbaugh. To perpetuate his image, Colbert uses new media, allowing his shows to be viewed and streamed for free. Colbert also understands the power of Facebook and uses the social media platform to accomplish what Marshall refers to the ways social media is "changing the relationships and mediations between user and public personality" (635).
Work Cited
Marshall, P.David. "New Media -- New Self: The Changing Power of Celebrity"
Pop Culture- Compare and Contrast Two Topics From List Below Society has the tendency to promote values that it is familiar with and that most people are likely to identify. The masses thus come to feel that it would be perfectly normal for them to take some things for granted simply because they are considered socially acceptable. Across time literary specialists and philosophers played an active role in trying to understand
Pop Culture Serazio, Michael. "Shooting for Fame: Spectacular Youth, Web 2.0 Dystopia, and the Celebrity Anarchy of Generation Mash-Up." Communication, Culture & Critique 3 (2010) 416 -- 434. In "Shooting for Fame," Michael Serazio argues that the new media environment creates unique opportunities for a vehemently destructive sort of narcissism. Pointing to the Columbine massacre, the Virginia Tech massacre, and the Jokela High School Massacre in Finland, the author claims that the
Pop Culture Project I Am Thin, Therefore I Am Pop culture today places a huge emphasis on being thin. You see it everywhere: in the news, in magazines, on television, on the Internet, and any other kind of media. We are constantly being bombarded with images of impossibly thin women and lean, muscular men, while at the same time, advertisements for diet products are at an all-time high. The combination of these
Pop Culture Artifact: Bacardi's Ugly Friend Ad Campaign Alcohol ads are noted for their misogyny, from simple objectification to actively implying violence toward women. However, these ads are generally targeted at male audiences, designed to engage the male gaze. The Bacardi Breezers "Ugly Friend" ad campaign targeted women, specifically women's insecurities about their physical appearance, using stereotypes of behavior to sell product. Published on the web in 2009, the ad campaign
Pop Culture The most important development in a child is his individual identity. While children are shaping their attitude and identities, most of the times they tend to imitate their ideals and personalities for inspiration. The youth relates to a specific individual or a personality as their role model due to a certain quality or skill that they posses. It is not necessary that the child should look / dress or
American popular culture is about numbing the mind and senses, and deferring responsibility for problems like depression, anxiety, and ill health. For these core reasons, I have become media conscious and aware of the effect that American popular culture has on sheep-like consumers. Because I can no longer tolerate American popular music, I have been increasingly drawn towards truly good and creative artists from all genres. I have a great