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The absorption-addiction model of celebrity worship: in search of a broader theoretical foundation

BMC Psychology
Background A large body of evidence suggests that some people have a strong, obsessive attachment to a favorite celebrity. The absorption-addiction model attempts to account for this extreme attachment, sometimes labeled “celebrity worship.” According to
Mara S. Aruguete, Frederick Grieve, Ágnes Zsila, Rita Horváth, Zsolt Demetrovics, Lynn E. McCutcheon   +5 more
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Celebrity as a political resource: the human rights now! campaign [PDF]

, 2020
The use of celebrities as endorsers of causes and even political candidates has become ubiquitous in modern culture. Aided by the rise of mass and social media the impact of celebrity on the organizations that use their power is seldom examined.
Henry, CP
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Social media influencers and transgressive celebrity endorsement in consumption community contexts

, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to elucidate instances whereby celebrity endorsements by social media influencers (SMIs) embedded within online consumption communities are perceived as transgressive by their fellow community members.
Hayley Cocker, Rebecca Mardon, Kate L. Daunt   +2 more
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Cell‐Free DNA‐Based Theranostics for Inflammatory Disorders

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Summary on the dual potential of cfDNA as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for inflammatory disorders. Figure was created with BioRender.com. ABSTRACT Inflammatory disorders are characterized by immune‐mediated inflammatory cascades that can affect multiple organs.
Jiatong Li, Yumei Wang, Xiaoxi Fan, Miao Xu, Jiawen Li, Wenfei Tan, Jianxiang Zhang, Heran Li   +7 more
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Celebrity chefs as brand and their cookbooks as marketing communication [PDF]

, 2008
This paper aims to illuminate how consumers engage with celebrity chefs as marketing objects and their cookbooks as marketing communications. Based upon narrative analysis of qualitative data it suggest that celebrity chefs are acting as brands, that ...
Tonner, A.
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Celebrity culture and public connection: bridge or chasm? [PDF]

, 2007
Media and cultural research has an important contribution to make to recent debates about declines in democratic engagement: is for example celebrity culture a route into democratic engagement for those otherwise disengaged?
Couldry, N., Markham, Tim
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Interfacially Coupled and Synergistic Effect of Ag/Co3O4‐C Nanocomposites for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction (ORR) and Evolution (OER) Reaction

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Ag/Co3O4–C nanocomposites display well‐resolved lattice fringes and synergistic Ag/Co3O4 heterointerfaces that enhance charge transfer and active‐site exposure. The structural design enables superior bifunctional ORR/OER performance in alkaline media by promoting efficient adsorption and turnover of oxygen intermediates within an optimized ...
Adnan Qaseem, Fuyi Chen, Arslan Shabbir, Mohsin Saleem, Jung Hyuk Koh, Muhammad Zubair Khan, Imran Shakir, Muhammad Talha Masood, Kanagat Kishibayev   +8 more
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Celebrity culture and demographic change: The case of celebrity nonmarital fertility, 1974-2014

Demographic Research, 2018
Background: In recent years, demographers have proposed increasingly sophisticated models of culture's relationship to demographic patterns and change.
Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk
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Predicting the stalking of celebrities from measures of persistent pursuit and threat directed toward celebrities, sensation seeking and celebrity worship.

PLoS ONE, 2023
The stalking of celebrities is a serious issue for thousands of celebrities worldwide who are occasionally confronted by fans who merit the label "fanatic." We administered measures of obnoxious celebrity stalking, celebrity worship, persistent pursuit ...
Maria M Wong, Lynn E McCutcheon, Joshua S Rodefer, Kenneth Carter   +3 more
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The production and consumption activities relating to the celebrity artist [PDF]

, 2015
This paper considers the impact of the celebrity artist on the associated production and consumption activities. It also considers the role which entrepreneurial marketing plays in helping to create the celebrity artist aura. The artist Thomas Kinkade is
Adorno T., Barnett R., Batey M., Baudrillard J., Baudrillard J., Baumgartner H., Bendix R., Benjamin W., Bourdieu P., Brown S., Burke K., Carson D., Cashmore E., Davis F., DeBord G., Dutton D., Elliott R., Falls S., Fillis I., Gagliardi P., Greenberg C., Holbrook M. B., Holbrook M. B., Holt D. B., Ian Fillis, Jameson F., Katz W., Kundera M., Lash S., Levi-Strauss C., MacCannell D., Marshall D., Marshall K. P., McCarthy P., McClelland J. S., McCracken G., McLuhan M., Olalquiaga C., Rojek C., Vasari G., Walker J. A., Weber M.   +41 more
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