Title: Celebrity Culture - Sociology of Culture- - iResearchNet
Headings: Celebrity Culture
Celebrity Culture
Outline
The Leadership Vacuum and the Globalized Media
The New Transparency
Consumption and Commodification
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Content: the prodigious number of famous individuals whose fame is predicated less on achievement and more on the attention of the media; the ubiquity of their representation; and the immoderate esteem afforded them by a wide constituency of consumers. A further distinguishing peculiarity of celebrity culture was the shift of emphasis from achievement based fame to media driven renown. This was captured in the contrived verb to celebrify, which, while never formally defined, might be interpreted to mean ‘‘to exalt; praise widely; make famous; invest common or inferior person or thing with great importance.’’ In his Illusions of Immortality, David Giles (2000: 25) submits that: ‘‘