The global politics of celebrity Introduction to a special issue of Popular Communication: The International Journal of Media and Culture

Academic Article

Abstract

  • 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.

    • Authors

  • Semati, Mehdi
  • Zambon, Kate

    • Status

    Publication Date

  • July 3, 2021

    • Published In

    Keywords

  • Attention economy
  • Celebrity
  • Celebrity diplomacy
  • Commodified self
  • Eco-celebrity
  • Global South
  • Microcelebrity
  • immigrant celebrity
  • transnational

    • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • 159

    • End Page

  • 163

    • Volume

  • 19

    • Issue

  • 3