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http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-4-celebrities-online/ Coming of Age Online Wed, 19 Oct 2016 13:07:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-4-celebrities-online/#comment-123 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:11:51 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=569#comment-123 As the saying goes in show business, “image is everything.” With advances in social media nowadays, celebrities have used these platforms to carefully curate and promote that image, using things like selfies, tweets, and more to bring them closer to their fans, make them seem like normal people, etc. I think you brought up an good point in the idea that, sometimes, celebrities do post rude, inappropriate, scandalous things that can blow up over social media. It’s interesting to note how it spreads so quickly and can turn social media as a device working against them. That being said, it shows the power and influence that celebrities have in modern society over all things media. In which case, they do have to be careful (which is probably why they spend fortunes on PR) of their activity over these platforms in comparison to non-celebrities who use social media as expressions of their free speech. For celebrities, it seems like that free speech is limited to protect their image and influence.

]]> http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-4-celebrities-online/#comment-117 Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:42:01 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=569#comment-117 I am childhood friends with a girl who was one of the main characters on a recent Disney Channel show, and she has received a huge fan following on social media from her fame among the older-kid/tween crowd. It is interesting to see her social media posts and compare them with the rest of my non-famous friends. While her posts my seem like they offer a glimpse into her everyday life, I know that there are huge chunks of her life that aren’t broadcasted for her followers. And since she has a certain public image to maintain, she doesn’t post certain things that other girls our age would post. Not that we post pictures of us doing questionable things, but even something like dressing up to go to a party at night with friends is avoided on her profile. While it is fun to think we get to look into celebrity’s lives, we must keep in mind that they are still within the confines of their public image and their agent or PR specialist ultimately gets the final say on what can and cannot be posted.

]]> http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-4-celebrities-online/#comment-108 Wed, 28 Jan 2015 01:25:34 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=569#comment-108 On the other hand, you have celebrities whose new media presence is so curated that whenever they do represent themselves in a way that they normally wouldn’t, they are heralded as “real.” Beyonce is a pretty good example of this–her music video for “7/11” is predominately made up of lo-fi camera phone footage of her acting silly (e.g. talking on her foot like it’s a telephone, jumping out of a Christmas box). Fans can view those images and I feel like they’re seeing the REAL Beyonce…when what they’re seeing is just as carefully constructed as everything else about Beyonce’s new media presence.

]]> http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/week-4-celebrities-online/#comment-103 Tue, 27 Jan 2015 19:02:40 +0000 http://miriamposner.com/dh150w15/?p=569#comment-103 Another example that comes to mind is Iggy Azalea, who engages with her haters in comments and through Twitter replies. She encourages the bad behavior by responding only to negative comments. And instead of defending herself, she usually just reinforces her bigotry. In one reply she said “I have a black boyfriend, how can I be rascist.” She would have been better off not responding at all.

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