Asian Celebrity Culture
By Kishore Budha • Nov 21st, 2007 • Category: News Picks
Subaltern Studies is proud to announce the launch of the Asian Celebrity Culture research group. The group has created a project page (an online resource for the study of Asian celebrity cultures). The objective of the research is to study the similarities and differences within Asian celebrity cultures and their relationship with Western celebrity cultures. On the resource page the group puts out illustrations from China and India pertaining to celebrity culture, reading lists, and literature and concepts. The group is headed by Melody Ting Wang and Kishore Budha.
The research page has the following contents:
1 Celebrity Culture Concept Map
2 Definitions / Literature
- 2.1 Sports and celebrity Culture
- 2.2 Celebrity Politicians
- 2.3 Posthumous Celebrity Culture
- 2.4 Digital Celebrities
4 Indian Celebrity Culture and media
- 4.1 Media Analysis of celebrity culture
- 4.2 Industry practices
- 4.3 Celebrity News
- 4.4 Media usage/promotion of celebrities
- 4.5 Celebrities, Fandom and fan culture
5 Media Examples
6 Footnotes
7 Bibliography/Readings
Kishore Budha is one of the co-founders of Subaltern Media and the founder-editor of the peer-reviewed Open Access journal Wide Screen. He holds a PhD in media and communications studies from the University of Leeds, UK and has professional experience in print journalism, internet news, and public relations industries. His interests include Critical Theories of Media and Communication, Semiotics, Transnational Communication, Film industry & production, Film theory, Film and history, Communications Policy, Visual Culture, Communication Technologies, Web media and Communication
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hi, Budha,it’s pleasure to know you.i am a postgraduate student from the university of leeds. and I have just read this post. i found my research question of dissertation is similar to yours in some degree. My research question is to what extent are chinese forms of celebrity culture different to western forms. So could i read your research paper?That will be really help me . and i will really appreciate that. thanks a lot. My email address is cs09j2j@leeds.ac.uk
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