The fall of celebrities have always interested the general
public, the people who want and wish to be as
famous and well known but never achieving
the goal. The idea of the specular economy has become
progressively more
importance for celebrities, as the “celebrities are in fact at the forefront of
the expansion
and use of social media and networks for reputation management.
Indeed, some ‘stars’ such as MC
Hammer have remade themselves through their
presence on Twitter” (Marshall, 2010, p498).
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by Brian Solis
Many celebrities will post status updated or tweets on
Facebook and Twitter respectively, but this form of
publicity for the celebrates
is still generally a two-way mirror as Marshall (2010) puts it, a the public
are like
the cops able to look into the interrogation room in which the celebrity
is in revealing personal information.
But
there are others that will willingly tweet with the public and make theirs
interactions more like a window
where two people can interact and see each
other. The example I will use which I heard
on the radio, is
when a cast in the Australian show Offspring, died many were extremely
upset and stated tweeting about it,
but hash tagging the wrong group instead of
Offspring the TV show it was Offspring the 90’s band. One of
the band member,
Noodles, would tweet about how the guy deserved, as it’s a TV show, all for a
laugh.
The reason why specular economy is so big in the world of
social media is because of the idea of mirrors,
we look at celebrities as
mirrors, something to aspire to, something to aim for, good looks, money and
fame.
But a mirror can also show faults in a person, flaws in celebrities for
the example that Marshall uses is tiger
wood who in 2009 was revealed as a
fake, someone who had another persona that remained hidden for
years. for this
reason I think celebrities have become more open about their lives on social
media because
of, one not letting the media be the first to find out and secondly
to try and publish a good reputation with
the public by showing more of who
they are.
Reference
Marshal, P.D 2010, ‘The Specular Economy’, Society,
vol. 47, no. 6, pp. 498-502
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ReplyDeleteI like that you have a link on the photo of MC Hammer leading to a Wikipedia article, because I would not have known who it was otherwise.
Just some precaution, when you copy from Word it can mess with the formatting of your blog post. In my tutorial we were told to copy our blog into the search bar or a Notepad document to get rid of all the hazy Word formatting code. You should still be able to fix it without too many hassles. Unless you were trying to structure your blog post like a poem, in which case you have succeeded.
It seems that you know what you are talking about in regards to the specular economy of celebrities, but you may want to read your blog aloud to find any errors that may have slipped through the gaps.
Some more scholarly references will lend some ethos to your blog.