Deborah King Celebrities

Since celebrities are role models for kids, when they are seen doing bad things may leave a child with a bitter feeling toward them. When kids see celebrities getting in trouble, they may feel that they don’t want anyone as a role model.

Have you ever heard of any celebrities’ having irresponsible behaviors? What about ponderous, intangible actions? Or the actions of the celebrities’ hurting fans? We need to consider the role models that kids are acting on.

As I read through this verbose chapter I began to pick up on the dominating themes of celebrity culture and their development over time. I consider myself somewhat of a celebrity super fan but as I read I realized I have never dove deeper into the meaning of celebrity but merely skimmed the surface. During my perusal of the chapter many thought-provoking concepts jumped out at me.

There are abundant reasons several of us are obsessed with celebrities. In Collin Palmer’s essay response, he believes that looking up to celebrities is okay as long as it is a positive obsession. I disagree with Palmer since he fails to notice that many of them have negative sides too.

Some people say celebrities are a big waste of time. Others say they have a good impact on our lives. Colin Palmer, a high school student, offers a response that is very interesting, He said, that celebrities aren't an issue, but if you look around at our school, neighborhoods in most people you can see that there is an issue.

As stated by Graeme Turner in Understanding Celebrity, ‘the contemporary celebrity will usually have emerged from the sports or entertainment industries; they will be highly visible through the media; and their private lives will attract greater public interest than their professional lives’ which is quite an accurate statement. A majority of the public believes that celebrities exist for the publics’ sake and combined with the statement ‘without us they are nobody’ it sort of correlates. But when you think about the fact that these are people too with feelings, families and private lives, not so much. The introduction of social media allowing everyday people to intrude on celebrities’ lives also breaks the barrier marginally. This allows for another level of interaction for personalities to reach out to the public and therefore can have massive impacts on their stardom. The function of celebrity is to be the ‘super human’. In fashion industries enormous pressure is put on models to remain ‘skinny and attractive’. This is where

When it comes to celebrities, society is under the impression that celebrities live this ideal lifestyle. The common perception is that because celebrities are very wealthy, they get special treatment, and the recognition they get from fans is what makes them “perfect,” but society never puts focus on the disadvantages of their lifestyle. In author Mary Loftus, “The Other Side of Fame,” some of the downsides are the lack of privacy and the chemical dependence celebrities use to help cope with all the pressure from the fame. If I was a celebrity, the downsides that come with the fame would affect the mental stability I have as a normal person, and therefore make it difficult for me to manage that lifestyle.

I agree with Collin Palmer that we shouldn't be so concerned about being obsessed with celebrities because for most of us it is harmless fun, however, there are a few people who seem to get too carried away, and for them it is a very negative influence.

We are living in an age where we have more access to celebrity gossip than we’ve ever had before. Shouldn’t we ask ourselves how much influence do these celebrities truly have on our lives? You will often realize that celebrities have a bigger impact on you than you would like to admit. To most of us, this effect can seem harmless at times but to some individuals it can become a very negative thing. In the article, “The Impact Celebrities Have On Our Lives” written by Deborah King, she states that no obsession is a good thing and that we should be very cautious about our involvement in celebrity gossip. In Collin Palmer’s response to Deborah, he argues that being obsessed with celebrities is harmless and even has some benefits to it. I partially agree with Collin that being obsessed is harmless, but to some it could hinder their self esteem.

On the surface, celebrities may not seem like the type of people children and teens should position as role models. This is a result of some of the bad personal choices the media displays to the public. But below the surface, surpassing all of the negative matter that the media chooses to

Since the early 1900’s many of us have been obsessed with celebrities. However, according to high school student Collin Palmer, in his short essay response, there is no harm with being obsessed with celebrities. I agree with Palmer, there is nothing wrong with it--besides checking in every so often to see what there up to.

The survey results shows us that 77.3% of the participants do not encourage celebrity worship in which most of them agree that something must be done to stop celebrity worship. However, I also noticed that even though some participants said that they do not encourage worship, a few of them said that they have a celebrity they worship. This tells us that despite them not encouraging celebrity worship, they still worship a celebrity. From this research, people can now understand why it is not good to worship celebrities and those who actually worship them would know more about it. The participants that do not encourage celebrity worship agreed with me that celebrity worship is unhealthy and can cause fans to become overly obsessed over their

People have been obsessed with celebrities for a long time now, but not as much as we do now. Colin Palmer wrote a short essay and said that it is harmless fun to have a slight obsession with a celebrity, and that he disagrees with Deborah King because she says that it could be unhealthy to have an obsession with a celebrity. Therefore, I agree with Palmer because people could be going through a tough time in their life, so watching a celebrity on social media so it could bring a smile to their faces.

As Boorstin (1962, p.18) puts it we live in an “illusionary” world of created characters surrounded by “pseudo events”. This viewpoint indicates the powerful role of the mass media in the fabrication of everyday consciousness. He argues that people are haunted in a way, not by reality, but by those images the public has put in place of reality. Celebrities are “human pseudo events”, entirely mass media constructions to be presented as “heroes”. This essay focuses on how achieved celebrities could be informal life coaches through their own talent and skills, their impact on society and the interdependent role of the mass media and cultural intermediaries on the commodification of the culture. Finally, it highlights the growth of notoriety

To conclude my final analysis, the information Mrs.King gathered for her first part of her article, I have broken it down into an important chunk of data. I'm going to start off with that, when Mrs.King stated that we are obsessed and basically have nothing better to do, I disagree with her comment because maybe the paparazzi and reporters are doing it to make money because only god knows what's happening at home or anything else. I don't think the majority sits at home and looks at celebrities all day when there is social media. Consequently, And in the second portion of the article Mrs.King started to talk about how celebrities are a good reflection for us which leads me to believe she is one of the obsessed, but she immediately changes