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Celebrity critiquing : hot or not? Teen girls' attitudes on and responses to the practice of negative celebrity critiquing
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Abstract
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| By conducting focus groups with teen girls, this study aimed to explore female adolescents responses to and perceptions of increasingly negative, scandal-driven critiquing of celebrities. Four types of celebrity-critiquing cases were selected and discussed. The first research question focused on girls reactions towards the presented examples. The results indicated that the girls responses differed depending on the type of case involved. Generally, the teens at first were entertained by the comments about celebrities, but disapproved of cases that seemed to be intended to hurt the celebrity. For all types of cases, however, they were quite judgemental in that they quickly blamed the victim. Although they reported that it is unacceptable to humiliate people online, they were convinced that celebrities should be able to deal with comments, even if they were harsh. The second research question was interested in whether the girls perceived celebrity critiquing as a form of cyberbullying. They said this was not the case, because bullying was considered much more extreme. Moreover, some girls mentioned that to be able to label online commenting as cyberbullying, they would need to know the victim in person and see them suffer. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Celebrity studies. - Oxford, 2010, currens
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Publication
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Oxford
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2017
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ISSN
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1939-2397
[Print]
1939-2400
[Online]
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DOI
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10.1080/19392397.2017.1307126
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Volume/pages
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8
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(2017)
, p. 461-476
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ISI
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000406492500007
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Full text (open access)
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Full text (publisher's version - intranet only)
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