Readingheat: The meanings and pleasures of star fashions and celebrity gossip

The Social News Gap: How News Reading and News Sharing Diverge

“…This relates to the emotion‐led sharing described above: People may feel more personally touched by disastrous news, and they may also feel more need to discuss and contextualize it, both things which might provoke sharing. Stories about celebrities may also be more likely to be shared: first because they might be stories to which people feel an emotional connection (Horton & Wohl, ), second because they have been identified as useful ways of starting conversations amongst social connections, an important part of status‐led sharing (Feasey, ). Finally, Boczkowski and Mitchelstein also identify stories which are either bizarre and unusual or useful as particularly likely to be shared via e‐mail (see Boczkowski & Mitchelstein, , p. 114).…”

Medusa's stare: celebrity, subjectivity and gender

“…However, a sense of relativism here is also perhaps misplaced. Feasey's small-scale qualitative work with a small group of young women on their consumption of heat magazine, whilst indicating that readers were hardly slavish, equally demonstrated that they took the issues raised seriously, gained a sense of security from seeing famous women engage in similar issues or encouragement from what they wore, and used them as a means of cementing their friendships (Feasey 2008). Similar work on women's reading of magazines illustrates the sense in which, whilst the titles are in no way directly manipulative, they are actively used to play a part in their lives if only to share with others (Winship 1987, McRobbie 1991, Hermes 1995, Holmes 2005.…”

“…Its initial inception by EMAP (now Bauer Media) as a general entertainment title in 1999 was not successful, yet its revamp a year later to emphasise gossip and glamour saw sales soar. As Feasey has noted, this sets up a strong, almost paradoxical, sense in which the title puts stars up on pedestals yet knocks them off again as 'just like us', playing into a wider discourse of authenticity (Feasey 2008). Hello!…”

As redes sociais vão à bola: o papel social e mediático da informação interna no desporto

“…Marwick e Boyd, 2011;Feasey, 2008). O estudo de Marwick e Boyd focou-se na forma como as celebridades usam o Twitter para interagir com os fãs, acentuando que esta rede dá a oportunidade aos fãs de interagir com pessoas famosas, de uma forma como nunca tinha sido possível.…”