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Celebrity Cultures. Einleitung in den Schwerpunkt

Author(s): Rehberg, PeterWeingart, Brigitte

Abstract

Famous for being famous: the presumably self-referential dimension of fame seems to be part of everyday knowledge nowadays. Although the slogan downgrades certain ways of being famous as ‹undeserved›, it also emphasizes media's constitutive function in the production of celebrity-status. The ZfM-issue on Celebrity Cultures focuses not only on the specific media conditions that bring about public visibility, but also on the effects that an attention economy massively transformed by social media has on the notion of the public itself (as demonstrated by the notion of the ‹micro-celebrity›). How, then, can we analyze the processes of constructing celebrity within contemporary media cultures, both with regard to individual celebrities and to the overarching tendency of a «celebritization»?

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Rehberg, Peter; Weingart, Brigitte: Celebrity Cultures. Einleitung in den Schwerpunkt. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 9 (2017), Nr. 1, S. 10-20. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/1975.
@ARTICLE{Rehberg2017,
 author = {Rehberg, Peter and Weingart, Brigitte},
 title = {Celebrity Cultures. Einleitung in den Schwerpunkt},
 year = 2017,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/1975},
 volume = 9,
 address = {Zürich},
 journal = {Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft},
 number = 1,
 pages = {10--20},
}
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