Stars in Space: Celebrity Gossip Magazines, Guilt, and the Liminoid Airport

McDonnell, Andrea

doi:10.1080/15295036.2015.1033730

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“…For boys with high affective empathy, however, cyberbullying was more likely with low cognitive empathy compared to high cognitive empathy (Ang & Goh, 2010). These gender effects might even be stronger in the context of celebrity aggression, as celebrity media consumption is also characterized by gender differences, with women having a considerably higher celebrity media consumption compared to men, both offline (McDonnell, 2015) and online (Meyers, 2010). The gender differences for empathy might then develop in two different directions: either women's regular exposure to online celebrity aggression activates desensitization processes, bringing their empathic feelings to the background (Funk, Elliott, Urman, Flores, & Mock, 1999;Pabian et al, 2016) or their regular exposure to those celebrities might generate feelings of connection, increasing their levels of empathy (Wakabayashi et al, 2006).…”

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Online celebrity aggression: A combination of low empathy and high moral disengagement? The relationship between empathy and moral disengagement and adolescents' online celebrity aggression

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Vandebosch

2018

Computers in Human Behavior

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Adolescents regularly become involved in online aggression. While existing research mainly concentrated on online peer aggression, some studies pointed to adolescents' aggression toward other targets, such as celebrities. It is known that socio-cognitive characteristics such as empathy and moral disengagement are associated with adolescents' aggression toward peers, but so far it remains unexplored if these traits can also explain celebrity aggression. The current study investigated the relationship between affective and cognitive empathy, moral disengagement and online celebrity aggression. The sample consisted of 1,255 adolescents with a mean age of 14.17 years (SD= .47).Participants completed the Moral Disengagement Scale adapted to a celebrity context, the Emotional Quotient and a scale measuring mild and severe online celebrity aggression. Structural equation analysis in Mplus indicated that, when controlling for gender and celebrity media consumption, affective empathy was associated with severe and not with mild online celebrity aggression. The cognitive component of empathy was unrelated with online aggression toward celebrities. Moral disengagement was related with mild and severe online celebrity aggression and also mediated the relationship between affective empathy and both mild and severe celebrity aggression. Following these results, strategies aiming at reducing celebrity aggression may benefit from a focus on sociocognitive characteristics.

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Online celebrity aggression: A combination of low empathy and high moral disengagement? The relationship between empathy and moral disengagement and adolescents' online celebrity aggression

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Vandebosch

2018

Computers in Human Behavior

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“…It captures a transitional period when the ‘passenger’ is ‘betwixt and between’ (Turner, 1969: 359) two different roles within the tribe. In later work, the idea of liminality was applied to transitional spaces such as hotels (Prichard and Morgan, 2006) and airports (McDonnell, 2015). Here, the usual rules of living are ‘suspended’ (Van Gennep, 1960: 115) and actors may choose to invert or challenge existing social structures (Turner, 1974).…”

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Enacting emotional labour in consultancy work: Playing with liminality and navigating power dynamics

Iszatt‐White

Lenney

2020

Management Learning

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While theoretical understanding of professional emotional labour has developed in recent years, methodological issues with capturing its practice mean that understanding of how professional emotional labour is enacted remains relatively limited. The current study utilises memory work to surface potentially unacknowledged meanings associated with the remembered performance of professional emotional labour as a proxy for the psychological access required to demonstrate dissonance between felt and displayed emotions. The article uses an emotionally charged feedback meeting between a management consultant and their client as an opportune context for surfacing the enactment of professional emotional labour. The combined memory work data – consisting of original meeting recordings and a parallel commentary developed in discussion with the consultant – are analysed through a Goffmanian lens in order to theorise role positioning as a tool of enacting professional emotional labour. A model is proposed that maps the roles adopted against the dimensions of playing with liminality and navigating power dynamics. We suggest the potential transferability of these findings to other situations of liminality and their relevance for management learning interventions.

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“…This affective-discursive practice is, in part, facilitated by what Andrea McDonnell (2015) considers the 'liminality' of the airport. Passengers find themselves 'hovering between one space and another', which detaches us from our everyday lives.…”

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Travel style on Pinterest: Celebrity bodies as sites of labour and inspiration

Bore¹

2019

JOMEC Journal

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This study contributes to the body of work on media tourism by shifting attention from destinations to how we get there. In doing so, I am responding to Pritchard and Morgan's (2005, 299) call for 'explorations of the intimate relationships between travel, fashion, dress, the body and sociocultural constructions of place'. Specifically, I am interested in examining celebrities as transmedia resources for the imagining and planning of tourism. Focusing on Pinterest images of celebrities in airports, I analyse how the labour of travelling is concealed through circulated images of celebrity bodies that are beautiful, glamorous, wealthy, calm and comfortable, rather than sweaty, tired, rushed or bored. My discussion draws on Wilson and Yochim (2015) to reflect on how the pinned images offer a 'promise of happiness' (Ahmed 2010) within a feminised digital space that addresses users as creative consumer-researchers who search for and catalogue inspiration. Here, happiness is not just promised by the tourist destination, but by the possibility of making the journey itself pleasurable. The photographed celebrity bodies become sites of identification and inspiration, demonstrating that this goal can be achieved through careful planning, consumption and self-discipline. I approach the analysis of this networked practice by drawing together literature from a diverse range of fields, including the study of tourism, transport, consumption, celebrities, digital cultures and affect theory. The resulting framework facilitates the exploration of a participatory tourism culture characterised by gendered pleasures, consumerism and regulation.

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Stars in Space: Celebrity Gossip Magazines, Guilt, and the Liminoid Airport

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Online celebrity aggression: A combination of low empathy and high moral disengagement? The relationship between empathy and moral disengagement and adolescents' online celebrity aggression

Online celebrity aggression: A combination of low empathy and high moral disengagement? The relationship between empathy and moral disengagement and adolescents' online celebrity aggression

Enacting emotional labour in consultancy work: Playing with liminality and navigating power dynamics

Travel style on Pinterest: Celebrity bodies as sites of labour and inspiration

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