• DOI:10.1177/1367877907083077
Corpus ID: 145574853

Celebrity culture and public connection: Bridge or chasm?

@article{Couldry2007CelebrityCA,
  title={Celebrity culture and public connection: Bridge or chasm?},
  author={N. Couldry and T. Markham},
  journal={International Journal of Cultural Studies},
  year={2007},
  volume={10},
  pages={403 - 421}
}

N. Couldry, T. Markham

Published 2007

Sociology

International Journal of Cultural Studies

Media and cultural research has an important contribution to make to recent debates about declines in democratic engagement: for example, is celebrity culture a route into democratic engagement for those otherwise disengaged? This article contributes to this debate by reviewing qualitative and quantitative findings from a UK project on `public connection'. Using self-produced diaries (with in-depth multiple interviews) and a nationwide survey, the authors argue that while celebrity culture is… CONTINUE READING

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