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There are three dimensions of celebrity worship which are consistent with the absorption-addiction model (Maltby, Day, McCutcheon, Houran, & Ashe, 2005). These three dimensions are entertainment-social, intense-personal, and borderline-pathological. In the Entertainment-social celebrity worship, an individual develops an attraction to a favorite celebrity, which is consistent with Stever’s (1991) observation (as cited by McCutcheon et al., 2003) about the celebrity’s perceived ability to capture

Highly Acrobatic Gatsby Erotica The public view on fanfiction tends to focus more on the unorthodox: erotic Gatsby fic, the hypothetical romantic relationship of Kirk and Spock, or the media hurricane that was E.L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey. Fanfiction is treated as a recent phenomenon despite being around since the existence of the written language; many classic, derivative works could be considered fanfiction of “open source” content. While big media sources such as CNN, Yahoo, or Fox discuss

Dominic Trivisonno English 1120 Composition II Professor Bihary 5/8/16 Sports Rivalries and Its Impact on people in the Sports World My research explored, is about how the pride in one’s team can impact a community and the human need to feel like a winner. Also the emotional well-being on an individual or community. Sometimes an aggressive action by the opposing team turns to hatred and that’s a point that can elevate into a rivalry. A fan is someone who actually dedicates part of their every

Digital Media Participation: How Fans Interact Online is a short documentary about how fans show their support to their celebrity idols with the emergence of social media. Our group chose this topic because we notice how fans show their support by going to mall shows or by using certain hashtags on Twitter and make them trend worldwide. This documentary film aims to change the perspective people have on fans that they are cheap, desperate, and low class. With this interactivity and digitalization

Social Media and Celebrities: Prestigious or Problematic? Over the last century, technology has advanced increasingly, providing more and more opportunities to connect with other people, and stay up to date with all of the news, weather and sports. From computers to ipods, from iphones to tablets, and from touch screen tvs to smart watches, all of these accessories allow us onto the internet or television. All of this connection has a much larger impact than the average eye can see. Many people

is a culture within a culture where a group develops distinctive norms and values that are different from those of the mainstream culture. The subculture that I will be writing about is called the Fan Base which is also know as the Fandom. A fan base or fandom is a group of regular supporters and enthusiasts that spend a rather large amount of time and energy focussing on a team, musician or musical group, entertainer or any other celebrity; these different people/groups can be classed as sort

Is Celebrity Worshiping Damaging to Our Society? We all have a favorite celebrity that we like and follow from time to time. But, when does admiration for a celebrity stop and adoration begin? Is it possible to be obsessed with someone you have never met? The answer is yes! Celebrity worship is a type of "parasocial" relationship, in which a person can become captivated with one or more celebrities. To the point where celebrity worship has become an obsession. Obsessions like this is similar to

When I was in the third grade I was extremely obsessed with the Nickelodeon soap opera, House of Anubis. If you’ve never heard of it before, it was centered around an American teengaer in a British boarding school where the faculty was involved in some strange cult obsessed with Egyptian mythology and “The Chosen One.” On top of that there was four love triangles, child kidnapping, carrot eating competitions, masquerade balls, a disturbing amount of taxidermy, and a crapload of other random things

What is something that I am passionate about? What is YouNow? YouNow is a live stream social media site that is usually referred as an easier way to become a Youtuber. On YouNow the performers or stars can go live, this means that a person is live streaming when live streaming the star must choice a category that would be the best based on their live streaming feed. On YouNow a star may receive up to ten top fans, out of these top fans three are chosen and can be determined by the three viewers

outlets that are strictly devoted to the show, such as a website to buy little onesies on Cafepress.com saying “McDreamy in Training”, a place to buy SHG coffe ups just like Dr. Bailey and Jo. A show like Grey's continues to be successful because the fandom continues to grow and the desire to further the story is publicly expressed in every form of social media. TGIT stands for “Thank God it's Thursday” this was formed because new episodes air on ABC on Thursday. The group of dedicated viewers genuinely