This chapter examines the everyday geopolitics of Angelina Jolie's humanitarian
interventions and the implications of the'moral support'that she engendered among Burmese …

How has our understanding of sport been shaped by sociological ideas? How can the study
of sport help sociologists to understand wider society? The sociology of sport is a sub …

Zombies in the Academy taps into the current popular fascination with zombies and brings
together scholars from a range of fields, including cultural and communications studies …

What is it that gives celebrities the voice and authority to do and say the things they do in the
realm of development politics? Asked another way, how is celebrity practised and …

Drawing upon lived experiences, this article explores challenges facing feminist academics
sharing work in the media, and the gendered, raced intersections of 'being visible'in digital …

Scholars over the last half‐century have begun to explore how gossip–spoken, printed,
broadcast, or blogged–can serve to challenge, support, and/or reflect social, cultural, and …

This contribution discusses the content and characteristics of celebrity news as a hybrid
news genre by means of a quantitative content analysis of a random sample from 1 year of …

Celebrity Worship provides an introduction to the fascinating study of celebrity culture and
religion. The book argues for celebrity as a foundational component for any consideration of …

In recent years, celebrity philanthropy and activism has attracted much attention from the
media, sparking a great deal of public interest. As exponents and endorsers of the …

The concept of celebrity culture remains remarkably undertheorized in the literature, and it is
precisely this gap that this article aims to begin filling in. Starting with media culture …