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A lethal imitation game? Exploring links among psychoactive substance use, self-harming behaviors and celebrity worship

open access: yesAddictive Behaviors Reports, 2020
Recently, psychoactive substance use and suicidal behaviors have become general themes in popular culture, raising concerns that celebrity admirers may have become more affected in such health-risk behaviors.
Ágnes Zsila   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Celebrity Avatar” Feasting on In-Game Items: A Gamers’ Play Arena

open access: yesSAGE Open, 2021
Gamers like to socially interact with other players and show off their avatar whenever it is conceivable in performance and appearance. This study aimed to develop a new construct—“Celebrity Avatar”—based on the celebrity endorsement model and player ...
Xuhui Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individual Differences in the Association Between Celebrity Worship and Subjective Well-Being: The Moderating Role of Gender and Age

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
The association of celebrity worship with mental health concerns has been extensively studied in the past two decades. However, there is a lack of research on basic demographic characteristics that can potentially alter the link between celebrity ...
Ágnes Zsila   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Celebrity and lifestyle brand: Kim Kardashian and SKIMS. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
reservedDa alcuni anni a questa parte si sente spesso parlare di personaggi famosi che creano i propri brand, i quali propongono prodotti che riproducono lo stile di vita delle celebrità in questione. Lo scopo dell'elaborato è quello di spiegare di che
MAZZUCATO, ELENA
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Opportunities of Semiconducting Oxide Nanostructures as Advanced Luminescent Materials in Photonics

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
The review discusses the challenges of wide and ultrawide bandgap semiconducting oxides as a suitable material platform for photonics. They offer great versatility in terms of tuning microstructure, native defects, doping, anisotropy, and micro‐ and nano‐structuring. The review focuses on their light emission, light‐confinement in optical cavities, and
Ana Cremades   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding problematic internet use in the celebrity worship context: A use and gratifications approach

open access: yesComputers in Human Behavior Reports
The proliferation of celebrity worship in online spaces has fueled concerns about associated problematic Internet use (PIU). While research has found that gratifications deriving from Internet use elevate the risk of PIU, it is unclear whether celebrity ...
Dannuo Wei, Yu-Te Huang
doaj   +1 more source

“There Will Be No Further Explanation”: Celebrity Journalism and Taylor Swift’s 'Reputation'

open access: yesFacts & Frictions, 2023
This article interrogates the changing role of celebrity journalism in the midst of an evolving digital media landscape in which a digital participatory culture drives interest and value in celebrity figures.
Victoria Sands
doaj   +1 more source

No cause for celebration: the rise of celebrity news values in the British quality press [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In their study of news values in in the British press Harcup and O’Neill (2001) noted that celebrity was one of the redefinitions of the ‘taxonomy of news values for the twenty-first century’.
O'Neill, Deirdre
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Soft Hardware, Flowing Software: Reconfigurable Microfluidics for Adaptable Chemical Computation

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A reconfigurable microfluidic platform based on soft, photo‐printable, and chemically erasable hydrogel structures printed and erased in situ is used to control flow routing, mixing, chemical patterning, and even chemical computing. Using hardware to control chemical computations decouples logic function from molecular composition, demonstrated via ...
Piet J. M. Swinkels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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