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Celebrity and New Media - Gatekeeping Success (Hardcover)
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Celebrity and New Media - Gatekeeping Success (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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This book looks back to the early days of new and social media, to
examine the potential threat that such technologies and platforms
posed to the mainstream corporate media's gatekeeping, and its
ability to exploit, humiliate, and even violate famous women
Drawing on her own experiences working as part of this gatekeeping
system, Stephanie Patrick argues that, in order to combat this
threat, the mainstream media doubled down on gendered narratives of
meritocracy that legitimized certain (male) celebrities over others
Using a range of case studies spanning "old" media sites and "new,"
including Disney, Playboy, and reality television, this book
demonstrates that sexual exploitation and violation could be
considered constitutive of female celebrity, rather than a side
effect Patrick's case studies include some of America's most
(in)famous celebrities, including Miley Cyrus, Lindsay Lohan, Anna
Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton, and Donald Trump, urging readers to
question their assumptions about these figures and their public
trajectories This nuanced exploration of patriarchal capitalism and
women's ongoing sexual exploitation by the media will be an
important reference for scholars and students of digital and new
media, journalism, celebrity studies and gender studies
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