Celeb 2.0 - How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture (Hardcover)

This volume looks at how the new capabilities of Web 2.0 are changing the worlds of celebrity fandom and gossip. With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking "tweeting" more famous than his films, and Perez Hilton actually getting more attention than Paris, the actress often covered in his blog, the worlds of celebrity celebration and online social networking are pushing the public's crush on the famous and infamous into overdrive. Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture explores this phenomenon. Celeb 2.0 looks at how blogs, video sharing sites, user-news sites, social networks, and message boards are fueling America's already voracious consumption of pop culture. Full of fascinating insights and interviews, the book looks at how celebrities use blogs, Twitter, and other tools, how YouTube and other sites create celebrity, how Web 2.0 shortens the distance between fans and stars, and how the new social media influences news reporting and series television. Chronologies chart the rise of celebrity entertainment reporting, celebrity journalists, reality television, and mash-up culture Includes an index of key terms related to social networking as well as key players in social media development and social media celebrities

General

Imprint:	Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2009
First published:	October 2009
Authors:	Kelli S Burns
Dimensions:	242 x 167 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	212
ISBN-13:	978-0-313-35688-9
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Films, cinema > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Encyclopaedias & reference works > Reference works > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > Popular culture
LSN:	0-313-35688-2
Barcode:	9780313356889

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