Erin A. Meyers

Dishing Dirt in the Digital Age

Celebrity Gossip Blogs and Participatory Media Culture

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Beginning in the mid-2000s, celebrity gossip blogs exploded into the media market, challenging the traditional dominance of print tabloids as the primary space of celebrity dish and reconfiguring the audience's role in celebrity culture. This book is a critical and historical examination of the impact of the technological and textual shifts engendered by new media on the use of celebrity gossip as a form of everyday cultural production. Examining six popular American gossip blogs - Perez Hilton and Jezebel among them - at a peak moment of influence in the mid-2000s, this book explores how the technological affordances of new media enable the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4331-1806-7
EAN: 9781433118067
Produktnummer: 14816539
Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 171 S.
Masse: H22.7 cm x B24.4 cm x D1.1 cm 266 g
Auflage: New ed
Gewicht: 266
Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational

Über den Autor

Erin A. Meyers is Assistant Professor in the Communication & Journalism Department at Oakland University. She holds an M.A. in women's studies with a focus on gender representation in popular media from The Ohio State University and a PhD in communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published articles on celebrity, popular culture, and new media in The Journal of Popular Culture, In Media Res, Celebrity Studies, and New Media and Society. She has also contributed to The Handbook of Gender, Sex and Media (2011) and Communicate! (2010).