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The Kanye Factor: A Brand’S Dilemma, Rachel Oyinloluwa Oyinloye
The Kanye Factor: A Brand’S Dilemma, Rachel Oyinloluwa Oyinloye
Global Strategic Communications Student Work
Adidas is a global sportswear manufacturer that grew from roots that started in 1924 by the Dassler brothers before, evolving into the second largest sports brand in the world, now known as Adidas, on August 18, 1949. The brand has had its fair share of success and scrutiny in its 73-year existence. As a company that has diversity, equity, and inclusion as key points in its global strategy, Adidas is not a stranger to facing criticism in this area. In October 2022, recording artist, producer, and entrepreneur Kanye (Ye) West came under fire for a series of controversial actions. From …
Chinese Celebrities’ Political Signaling On Weibo, Dan Chen, Gengsong Gao
Chinese Celebrities’ Political Signaling On Weibo, Dan Chen, Gengsong Gao
Political Science Faculty Publications
In China, celebrities can dominate public discourse and shape popular culture, but they are under the state’s close gaze. Recent studies have revealed how the state disciplines and co-opts celebrities to promote patriotism, foster traditional values, and spread political propaganda. However, how do celebrities adapt to the changing political environment? Focusing on political signaling on Weibo, we analyze a novel dataset and find that the vast majority of top celebrities repost from official accounts of government agencies and state media outlets, though there are variations. Younger celebrities with more followers tend to repost from official accounts more. Celebrities from Taiwan …
Deepfake It Til You Make It: How To Make A Short Film, Adam G. Lee
Deepfake It Til You Make It: How To Make A Short Film, Adam G. Lee
Honors Program Projects
A recent development in the realm of computer technology is the deepfake. Deepfakes, which train a computer model to digitally superimpose one person’s face onto another body in a separate video, has its uses for good and for ill, with the unfortunate tendency to the latter. The vast majority of deepfakes are used for pornography, most commonly depicting female celebrities as the subjects. At the less notable level, it is often used for revenge pornography. These aspects of deepfake technology are rarely discussed in mainstream media, which tends to focus on the less harmful uses, such as those for comedic …
A Home Run For Turnout: An Analysis On The Use Of Sports Facilities To Increase Voter Turnout, Drew Bydalek
A Home Run For Turnout: An Analysis On The Use Of Sports Facilities To Increase Voter Turnout, Drew Bydalek
Honors Theses
In 2020, American voters turned out to cast ballots in record-breaking numbers. While many factors likely contributed to this increase in turnout, professional sports stadiums and arenas were used as polling locations for the first time. Did this first-time use of sports facilities contribute to increased turnout in the 2020 election? I theorize that sports facilities increase turnout by decreasing the cost of voting and providing psychological motivations to vote. The research design employed to test this theory is a difference-in-differences model (DD) that compares 2016 and 2020 county vote totals while controlling for various demographic factors. The results indicate …
‘Mingren Are The Respectable Ones’: An Analysis Of Everyday Engagements With Contemporary Celebrity Culture In China, Min Xu, Stijn Reijnders, Sangkyun (Sean) Kim
‘Mingren Are The Respectable Ones’: An Analysis Of Everyday Engagements With Contemporary Celebrity Culture In China, Min Xu, Stijn Reijnders, Sangkyun (Sean) Kim
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
To investigate the values and social norms underpinning celebrity culture, it is crucial to study everyday uses of celebrity culture. Yet, studies in this area have been limited thus far, especially in non-Western contexts. This exploratory study focuses on the ways how young and middle-aged adults in everyday life in urban China discuss and value media celebrities. The results show that respondents have a rather similar way of valuing celebrity: celebrities need to have strong work ethics and showcase social responsibility; only then do they ‘earn’ their right to be considered ‘famous’. We conclude that these values are closely related …
Star Performances: Ed Roberts On The Speaking Circuit, 1983-1995, Scot Danforth
Star Performances: Ed Roberts On The Speaking Circuit, 1983-1995, Scot Danforth
Education Faculty Articles and Research
This article uses historical research methods to explore noted disability rights leader Ed Roberts' performances on the speaker circuit between 1983, when he left his position as director of the California Department of Rehabilitation, and his death in 1995. This article examines how he managed his performed identity, his self as presented on stage, in order to be a disability star. Using his own life story as a poignant example, he narrated an autobiography of how a paralyzed man could live a vigorous, successful, indeed a joyful life. His personal stories communicated his lived experiences of battling discrimination and stereotypes. …
Celebrity Owned-Brands: Do People Really Buy Them?, Jessica Guevara, Cassidy Rollins, Amelia Czopek
Celebrity Owned-Brands: Do People Really Buy Them?, Jessica Guevara, Cassidy Rollins, Amelia Czopek
Spring Showcase for Research and Creative Inquiry
The presence of a celebrity can influence consumer behavior. Participants were shown a photograph with a celebrity holding a beverage with the text "Owned by Ryan Reynolds" or they are shown the same photograph with no text for 30 seconds, following a questionnaire on product attitude and buying intention. Participants in both conditions had no significant differences in buying intentions and product attitude towards the product.
What’S Cookin’ Good Lookin’: The Rise And Phenomena Of The Female Foodie Performer Through Social Media, Alison Weiss
What’S Cookin’ Good Lookin’: The Rise And Phenomena Of The Female Foodie Performer Through Social Media, Alison Weiss
Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters
Once seen in black and white terms as human sustenance or luxury, eating has become not only a hobby, but an obsession. Whereas chefs and cooks were previously regarded as average, behind-the-scenes workers, they have now stepped out from the kitchen and into the spotlight, becoming celebrated public idols – and performers. With images tailored to different demographics right down to their clothing and hairstyles, chefs and cooks no longer merely prepare food: they put on a show. The foodie phenomena has been pioneered by females, largely in part to the parallel-running infatuation with health, fitness, and food trends that …
Apologies Of The Rich And Famous: Cultural, Cognitive, And Social Explanations Of Why We Care And Why We Forgive, Janet M. Ruane, Karen Cerulo
Apologies Of The Rich And Famous: Cultural, Cognitive, And Social Explanations Of Why We Care And Why We Forgive, Janet M. Ruane, Karen Cerulo
Department of Sociology Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
In recent years, U.S. and other Western media have inundated the public with celebrity apologies. The public (measured via representative opinion polls) then expresses clear ideas about who deserves forgiveness. Is forgiveness highly individualized or tied to broader social, cultural, and cognitive factors? To answer this question, we analyzed 183 celebrity apologies offered between October 1, 2000, and October 1, 2012. Results are twofold and based in both cultural and social psychological perspectives. First, we found that public forgiveness is systematically tied to discursive characteristics of apologies—particularly sequential structures. Certain sequences appear to cognitively prime the public, creating associative links …
An Open Letter To List Articles, Nathan Holic
Lights, Camera, Vote: An Agenda-Setting Analysis Of Celebrity Endorsements And News Correlation During The 2012 Presidential Election, Amanda Jacobsen
Lights, Camera, Vote: An Agenda-Setting Analysis Of Celebrity Endorsements And News Correlation During The 2012 Presidential Election, Amanda Jacobsen
Masters Theses
Many studies have been done in order to prove the idea that celebrity endorsements can affect elections; however little research has exposed the ongoing correlation between entertainment and news media in America. This research investigates the strong correlation between entertainment websites and mainstream news websites during the 2012 United States presidential election by way of celebrity endorsements. The sources examined included celebrity, entertainment journalism sites such as The Huffington Post, People and E! as compared to networks; ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, CNN and CBS News. Twelve celebrities were chosen by means of their given Q Score. Their announced …
Star Shots: Stigma, Self Disclosure And Celebrity In Bipolar Disorder, Wendy Cross, Ken Walsh
Star Shots: Stigma, Self Disclosure And Celebrity In Bipolar Disorder, Wendy Cross, Ken Walsh
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)
No abstract provided.
Displaying The Monster: Patrick White, Sexuality, Celebrity, Guy R. Davidson
Displaying The Monster: Patrick White, Sexuality, Celebrity, Guy R. Davidson
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
For all his reputation as a singular figure, Patrick White's relation to fame exhibits contradictions or tensions that are, up to a point, entirely characteristic of the Anglophone literary modernism of which he was a belated proponent.
Snooze Alarm: What The Deaths Of Celebrities Can Teach Us About The Dangers Of Insomnia, Gayle Greene
Snooze Alarm: What The Deaths Of Celebrities Can Teach Us About The Dangers Of Insomnia, Gayle Greene
Scripps Faculty Publications and Research
When a star dies from an overdose, there's a tendency to write it off as "drug abuse." That amazing combination of drugs in Heath Ledger's body, for instance -- what was he thinking? Blame the celebrity, chalk it up to reckless living, a self-destructive lifestyle, a pursuit of pleasure through recreational drugs. But the drugs that killed Ledger -- three types of benzodiazepines, an antihistamine, two pain relievers -- are all substances people take for sleep.
Sex, Soap And Sainthood: Beginning To Theorise Literary Celebrity, Wenche Ommundsen
Sex, Soap And Sainthood: Beginning To Theorise Literary Celebrity, Wenche Ommundsen
Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)
No abstract provided.