Personalization according to politicians: A practice theoretical analysis of mediatization

Driessens, Olivier; Raeymaeckers, Karin; Verstraeten, Hans; Vandenbussche, Sarah

doi:10.1515/comm.2010.017

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“…Importantly, this stress on mediatization instead of (mass) media urges us to rethink the role of the media and broaden our focus from the media as technological platforms or content providers and ideological apparatuses to an understanding that pays attention to not only the direct involvement of media industries and their products (magazines, movies, television shows, etc. ), but also their indirect role as they actively co-shape our social environment and (non-)media-related social practices, an analytic approach which is promoted by mediatization studies (e.g., Driessens, et al, 2010;Lundby, 2009).…”

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The celebritization of society and culture: Understanding the structural dynamics of celebrity culture

Driessens

2012

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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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 celebritization. This article contributes to these debates first by distinguishing and clearly defining both terms and especially by presenting a multidimensional conceptual model of celebritization to remedy the current one-sided approaches that obscure its theoretical and empirical complexity. Here celebrification captures the transformation of ordinary people and public figures into celebrities, whereas celebritization is conceptualized as a meta-process that grasps the changing nature, as well as the societal and cultural embedding of celebrity, which can be observed through its democratization, diversification and migration. It is argued that these manifestations of celebritization are driven by three separate but interacting moulding forces: mediatization, personalization and commodification.

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The celebritization of society and culture: Understanding the structural dynamics of celebrity culture

Driessens

2012

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…Therefore, it may be useful to consider not only the celebration of the private, but also the 'popular persona' as a possible route to celebrity (cf. Driessens et al 2010). …”

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Celebrity capital: redefining celebrity using field theory

2013

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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 shared by current definitions of celebrity is their lack of explanatory power of the convertibility of celebrity into other resources, such as economic or political capital. Celebrity capital, or broadly recognizability, is conceptualized as accumulated media visibility which results from recurrent media representations. In that sense, it is a substantial kind of capital and not a subset or special category of social or symbolic capital, the latter being defined as legitimate recognition by other agents in a social field. Rather than adding another definition of celebrity next to many others, the proposed notion of celebrity capital should be seen as an attempt to integrate the existing approaches of celebrity into one comprehensive conceptualization which can enable us to better grasp this societal and cultural phenomenon.

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“…As the exposure to national media may not mean much for regional candidates, it is possible that the impact of media exposure for regional candidates are all clustered in subnational-level media when that level of media is oriented towards reporting subnational issues (Driessens et al, 2010;Cross and Young, 2015). Therefore, it is expected that: H3.…”

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The territoriality of personalization: New avenues for decentralized personalization in multi-level Western Europe

Chan

2017

Regional & Federal Studies

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In light of the increasing scholarly attention to the concept of decentralized personalization, this paper argues that the territoriality (the level of government to which an MP belongs) of an MP would also lead to variations in that MP's incentive to personalize their campaigns. Using data from the PARTIREP Comparative MP survey, this paper tests the role of the territoriality of an MP in their incentive to personalize their campaigns across nine multilevel countries in Western Europe. Although the level of personalization of campaigns does differ according to territoriality, the underlying explanatory variables do not behave uniformly across territoriality. This paper thus draws attention to the rarely explored role of territory, and the complications it may bring to the explanation of the personalization of politics.

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Personalization according to politicians: A practice theoretical analysis of mediatization

Cited by 30 publications

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The celebritization of society and culture: Understanding the structural dynamics of celebrity culture

The celebritization of society and culture: Understanding the structural dynamics of celebrity culture

Celebrity capital: redefining celebrity using field theory

The territoriality of personalization: New avenues for decentralized personalization in multi-level Western Europe

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