The popular photo-sharing app Instagram has created a new breed of celebrities: the
Instafamous. This essay examines the phenomenon—from Singaporean socialites showing …

In recent debates about the ever-growing prominence of celebrity in society and culture, a
number of scholars have started to use the often intermingled terms 'celebrification'and …

The emergent new media ecology which integrates participatory media into the structure of
global information flows has fundamentally affected the means of production and distribution …

This article proposes to redefine celebrity as a kind of capital, thereby extending Bourdieu's
field theory. This redefinition is necessary, it is argued, because one of the main limitations …

We study how an individual's exposure to external information regulates the evaluation of
entrepreneurial opportunities and entrepreneurial action. Combining data from interviews, a …

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 …

The year 2018 saw the rise of a new global youth movement, Fridays for Future. The
organization underlines the importance of personal accountability for greenhouse gas …

In the early twenty-first century, women continue to receive substantially less media
coverage than men, despite women's much increased participation in public life. Media …

When my first daughter was born a few years ago, I entered a celebrity news blackout, a
somewhat discomfiting condition for a sociologist of celebrity. When she entered preschool …

In 1999 the Helsinki Summit officially positioned Turkey within the European Union (EU)
enlargement process. Since then, Turkey has been undergoing an extraordinary political …