This fully updated third edition provides students and researchers with the tools they need to
perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include …

In this new book, Mark Wheeler offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, nature and
global reach of celebrity politics today. Celebrity politicians and politicized celebrities have …

On television and in films, in magazines and books, on the Internet and in the realm of
politics, celebrities of all sorts seem to dominate our attention. Celebrity Society: The …

In a supposedly 'anti-political'age, the scholarly literature on celebrity politicians argues that
politicians gain popularity by adopting strategies from within the world of entertainment. This …

Neoliberalism, Media and the Political examines the condition of media and journalism in
neoliberal cultures. Emphasizing neoliberalism's status as a political ideology that is …

Academic interest in what has been termed “infotainment” has grown considerably since the
term was coined in the 1980s. Today, the burgeoning field of infotainment research has …

Populism and the personalization of politics appears to be threatening the existence of
democracy as we know it all over the world. It is now more important than ever to understand …

Celebrity advocacy is a curious phenomenon. It occupies a significant proportion of the
public domain, but does so without engaging particularly well with much of the public. Yet …

This article aims, first, to argue that fandom matters to politics and, second, to offer a
theorisation of what I call politicised fandom. The article proceeds through three stages. Part …

Political communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have
become increasingly important in everyday life. Technology platforms have become …