Repository logo
 

Article:
Celebrity, Konvergenz und das Schicksal von Medieninstitutionen

Author(s):

Abstract

This article attempts to think about the rise of celebrity narratives and celebrity-focussed attention from the point of view of institutional logics of survival. The first part covers mediatisation and celebrity, specifically the contribution of accounts of ‹mediatization› to broadening a field-theory-based account of media's impacts on social processes, via the concept of media meta-capital. This leads to the increasing salience of ‹celebrity› as the most concrete form of media-related capital. The second part covers the increasing reliance of media institutions on celebrity as hooks for narrative, endorsers of events, and general reinforcers of value, at a time of increasing challenge to the myth of the mediated center around which the social legitimacy of media institutions is built.

Download icon

Published in:

Couldry, Nick: Celebrity, Konvergenz und das Schicksal von Medieninstitutionen. In: Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft, Jg. 9 (2017), Nr. 1, S. 61-78.10.25969/mediarep/2027
Keywords
license icon

The item has been published with the following license: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz