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} }
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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