Advanced Search
Print - Close Window
www.greenwood.com/catalog/C35688.aspx
All Greenwood Products
Celeb 2.0 How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture
Kelli S. Burns
ISBN: 0-313-35688-2
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-35688-9
236 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/22/2009
List Price: $44.95 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Series Title: New Directions in Media
Description: With Ashton Kutcher's record-breaking “tweeting” more famous than his films, and Perez Hilton actually getting more attention than Paris, the actress often covered in his blog, the worlds of celebrity celebration and online social networking are pushing the public's crush on the famous and infamous into overdrive. Celeb 2.0: How Social Media Foster Our Fascination with Popular Culture explores this phenomenon.

Celeb 2.0 looks at how blogs, video sharing sites, user-news sites, social networks, and message boards are fueling America's already voracious consumption of pop culture. Full of fascinating insights and interviews, the book looks at how celebrities use blogs, Twitter, and other tools, how YouTube and other sites create celebrity, how Web 2.0 shortens the distance between fans and stars, and how the new social media influences news reporting and series television.

Title Features:
  • Chronologies chart the rise of celebrity entertainment reporting, celebrity journalists, reality television, and mash-up culture
  • Includes an index of key terms related to social networking as well as key players in social media development and social media celebrities
About the Author: Kelli S. Burns, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the School of Mass Communications at the University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.
All rights reserved. Copyright © 1999-2009 ABC-CLIO
130 Cremona Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93117 805-968-1911