A Quantitative Study of the Effect of Celebrity Endorsers.

Political Fandom in the Age of Social Media: Case Study of Barack Obama’s 2008 Presidential Campaign Komal H. Parikh ABSTRACT Barack Obama’s use of social media in his 2008 Presidential Campaign has been widely acclaimed and written about. Simultaneously, Obama’s ability to mobilize American youth not only energized his campaign, but ultimately became his strongest voting segment. This.

Her dissertation explored the role of celebrity chefs in UK food politics. Christine's academic interests are in new sites of power and governance in everyday life, specifically on the power of media and celebrity to construct knowledge and connect the public to wider global issues.

The dissertation counts for 60 out of the 180 credits required to complete the MA programme successfully. To graduate with a Masters degree from the Department of Politics, you must pass the dissertation. 2. Word length. The dissertation should be between 12,000 and 15,000 words in length. The Department reserves the right to penalise.

No one — not me, with my 400-plus-page dissertation on celebrity gossip, not the stars themselves, not even the celebrity photographer who produced that documentary — could see just how powerfully the levers of power would shift in celebrities’ favor. But a decade later, the landscape of celebrity seems almost unrecognizable from the one I was asked to describe on-camera back then.

Celebrity endorsement has been around for a very long time and companies have used it as a way to get more potential customers interested in their products. Now when people are starting to be very aware of what they buy and who to trust it is becoming increasingly difficult for companies to find new ways to approach customers. Social media marketing infused with celebrity endorsement is very.

CELEBRITY CAPITAL: ROLE OF CELEBRITY POLITICAL ENDORSEMENT IN ELECTION CAMPAIGNS IN GHANA Introduction This paper is based on a research aimed at investigating celebrity politics using the emerging theories on celebrity capital in the context of an emerging democracy or third wave democracy, Ghana. The research focuses on the role of celebrity endorsement in the 2008 and 2012 election.

You realise those aren't dissertation titles, though, right? They're manifestos or polemics. You'd need to rephrase them to something like: Can the Labour party regain previous popularity through ideological and policy reform, or is weak leadership to blame? Then you'd focus on theories of celebrity politics, electoral behaviour and terms of government, and the role of ideology. Seriously.

Celebrity politics are defined by two main issues: interference between the political and pop culture spheres and the significant media exposure that now accrues to—and sometimes afflicts.

Ross 2011 divides celebrity activism into six categories: visual politics, electoral politics, issue-oriented politics, movement politics, image politics, and celebrity politics. Scholarship on celebrity political activism shows not just the political experiences or impact of one individual but also the broader power of celebrity-driven.

Dissertation in Politics or International Relations. Module code: POPP 3000. Module description. The dissertation provides the student with an opportunity to concentrate on a specific topic of their own choosing, and to pursue it with the maximum degree of depth which they are capable of as undergraduate students. The dissertation will provide an opportunity to further develop the analytical.

Celebrity Politics and the Cultivation of Affect in the Public Sphere A Dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at George Mason University by Ariella Horwitz Master of Arts California State University, Fullerton, 2004 Bachelor of Arts Whittier College, 2000 Director: Alison Landsberg, Professor Department of Cultural Studies.

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