In the age of networked publics and global viral publicity, celebrity is transnational. Its circulation illuminates global, national, and local dynamics of power and resistance. Celebrity shapes concepts of race, gender, class, and national identity on a global scale. Governments use transnational celebrity as evidence of their country's cultural power, transmuting cultural influence into economic and political power. Meanwhile, celebrities who cross borders become potent and contested icons of national identity. At the grassroots level, citizens in diverse geographic contexts are becoming increasingly fluent in the global language of celebrity and are mobilizing it in new ways for personal and political projects. Reaching beyond the Global North, this book showcases research on transnational celebrity as a technology of soft power and counter-hegemonic organizing, and as a driver of discourses of race and migration. It also explores self-presentation and self-branding in the globalized attention economy. This book demonstrates the need for a renewed politicized treatment of the topic of celebrity in its transnational and globalizing reach. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Popular Communication.

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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2023

ISBN

9781000894196

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Communication Studies

Index

Languages & Linguistics

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Table of Contents
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction The Global Politics of Celebrity
1 The commodified celebrity-self: industrialized agency and the contemporary attention economy
2 Offshoring & leaking: Cristiano Ronaldo’s tax evasion, and celebrity in neoliberal times
3 Speaking for the youth, speaking for the planet: Greta Thunberg and the representational politics of eco-celebrity
4 Celebrity migrants and the racialized logic of integration in Germany
5 Turkey’s TV celebrities as cultural envoys: the role of celebrity diplomacy in nation branding and the pursuit of soft power
6 Micro-celebrity practices in Muslim-majority states in Southeast Asia
7 Symbolic bordering: the self-representation of migrants and refugees in digital news
8 Refugee testimonies enacted: voice and solidarity in media art installations
9 How can we tell the story of the Colombian War?: Bastardized narratives and citizen celebrities
10 Transcendental meditation’s tipping point: the allure of celebrity on the American spiritual marketplace
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