Fandom is a subculture that evolved and composes of fans characterized by a feeling of empathy and camaraderie ([sic.] Abby Norman, 2015). When people empathize it helps them to bolster their emotional responses. Interestingly enough, some fans identify with fictional characters as it’s easier for them to share far more detailed and intimate facts about their lives. Fandom is so present in our lives that Jenkins explains that media companies are being run differently today due to the increased…
People can create fandoms based on any subject. Anything somebody likes there is more than likely a fan club for it. Fandoms can cause people to act all types of way since it is a group of people that have an interest in a subject. There is both casual fans that people just like enjoy watching or listening to things about the subject and dedicated fans that are crazy and take it as a priority in their life. It is crazy that people come up for names for themselves when they have such an interest.…
Musicians and bands have had obsessive followings for almost a century now, but it is only recently that people’s fixation with these celebrities has reached a level akin to following a religious figure. These groups of frenzied fans, or fandoms as they have been dubbed in the past decade, are most notably formed around young men or boybands, like Justin Bieber or One Direction. For the purpose of this essay, I will focus on the One Direction fandom for clarity and to emphasize how…
before our cruise to Ensenada, Mexico. Excitement had gotten the best of me. It was the day of the cruise. We all met 5:30am sharp outside of our friend Aaron’s house. All of us carpooled together in Joey’s car and hit the road to Long Beach, California; where it is the home of the Carnival Corporation’s Long Beach Cruise Terminal. When we arrived we can see all the cruise ships that were departing that day. First we went through the terminals, sorted everything and proceeded to the cruise where…
past 80 years we have revolutionize our culture, in a way that the way you dress determines the value that you have. Where flashing our `boobs to cameras from show like “Girls Gone Wild” is something absolutely normal. Where movie stars and female celebrities dress like stripers when they are supposed to promote female domination and…
Vine consists of short term videos that can be posted by anybody with any sort of content, many online celebrities from different social media’s use Vine to create an even bigger viewership for themselves. Vine has become a prime target of advertisement because it is an easy way to deliver new products in a very sophisticated way. For example, using Vine-famous…
Celebrities vs Flashes Paparazzis get paid to follow and take pictures of celebrities, but some celebrities don’t like that and can’t do anything about that. The government should prohibit paparazzis from taking pictures of celebrities who don’t want to be photographed because paparazzis just do the job to get paid and don’t care the celebrities or their children’s protection and what they think of them because paparazzis have the right to take pictures of them even if they dislike that, and…
when a celebrity or a famous figure starts a trend, everyone else wants to be involved in the trend. In a magazine called, Viewpoint: Did our brains evolve to foolishly follow celebrities?, indicates that “Fame is a powerful cultural magnet. As a hyper-social species, we acquire the bulk of our knowledge, ideas, and skills by copying from others, rather than through individual trial-and-error. However, we pay far more attention to the habits and behaviors demonstrated by famous celebrities…
e all want to be ‘known’ and I don’t really know why. Want to be important, want to be recognized and attention. We look at celebrities-famous people- and wish to be like them. We wish to have their money, prestige, and possessions. But why? What do famous people seem to have others do not have? Audience, money or ‘fake love’? So, when we want their lives, what are we truly pointing at? Success is not fame, and fame is rarely success. Success is more than pain, abuse, addiction and relation…
Lifestyle of celebrities versus ordinary people There is no doubt that celebrities life is an extraordinary experience to live. Some of ordinary people wishes to live this experience and to discover it. However, being a celebrity has disadvantages; celebrities do not have the privacy that ordinary people have, they cannot go wherever they wanted to and they always have to look beautifully and to behave in a polite way. In other words, being a celebrity requires a lot of effort. One of…