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Socialising celebrity

Socialising celebrity Celebrity Studies, 2014 Vol. 5, No. 3, 223–224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2014.935631 EDITORIAL a b Su Holmes and Sean Redmond a b University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia At the time of writing this editorial, we have just finished curating the programme for the second Celebrity Studies conference, held in June 2014 at Royal Holloway University, UK. When looking through the set of exciting abstracts – 160 papers have been scheduled – it became apparent that the dominant theme of concern was the relationship between celebrity and social media; or more specifically, celebrity and Twitter. With titles including ‘Performing Online: Celebrity Politics, Young Citizens and Social Media’, ‘The “Work” of Wrestlers: Creative Negotiation of Personas via Social Media & Cultural Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Watch the Birdie: The Cultural Politics of Twitter and the Celebrity Group Selfie’, scholars were aiming to explore socialising celebrity through a range of political, aesthetic and ideological lenses. Such a growth of interest in the social media is entirely welcome in the field given that, for the last few years, academic work on its relationship to celebrity has been relatively sparse, although one should also note that there is always a catch-up game being played http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Celebrity Studies Taylor & Francis

Socialising celebrity

Holmes, Su; Redmond, Sean
Celebrity Studies , Volume 5 (3): 2 – Jul 3, 2014
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Celebrity Studies, 2014 Vol. 5, No. 3, 223–224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2014.935631 EDITORIAL a b Su Holmes and Sean Redmond a b University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia At the time of writing this editorial, we have just finished curating the programme for the second Celebrity Studies conference, held in June 2014 at Royal Holloway University, UK. When looking through the set of exciting abstracts – 160 papers have been scheduled – it became apparent that the dominant theme of concern was the relationship between celebrity and social media; or more specifically, celebrity and Twitter. With titles including ‘Performing Online: Celebrity Politics, Young Citizens and Social Media’, ‘The “Work” of Wrestlers: Creative Negotiation of Personas via Social Media & Cultural Entrepreneurship’ and ‘Watch the Birdie: The Cultural Politics of Twitter and the Celebrity Group Selfie’, scholars were aiming to explore socialising celebrity through a range of political, aesthetic and ideological lenses. Such a growth of interest in the social media is entirely welcome in the field given that, for the last few years, academic work on its relationship to celebrity has been relatively sparse, although one should also note that there is always a catch-up game being played

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