What Does The Cult Of Celebrity Mean To Us?
Feature Article – Draft Kaila Brown
What Does The Cult Of Celebrity Mean To Us?
The cult of celebrity is destroying our society. Celebrities have impacted on how we look and act, mostly in a negative way. Our everyday lives are affected by the cult of celebrity; it’s in our conversations, our magazines and newspapers. The cult of celebrity is taking interest in famous individuals and this is what everyone does, every day.
Cult is a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object. A celebrity is a famous or well-known person, who is often seen in magazine articles or TV shows. These 2 things together create the cult of celebrity, which is society following celebrities every move. Celebrities bad behaviour can encourage their …show more content…
fans, which makes society try and become a certain way. Why do the media present stories on celebrity’s personal life? We don’t need to know every little thing that happens in their lives. Celebrity culture presents the beauty and skinny idea, which brings out eating disorders.
The top 3 Googled celebrities (excluding deaths) are Jennifer Lawrence at number 1, than Kim Kadashian, then Tracy Morgan. The most viewed YouTube videos are Gangnam Style (Psy) at number 1, than Baby (Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris), and thirdly Dark Horse (Katy Perry featuring Juicy J). Twitter is a huge social media site and the user with the most followers is Katy Perry (66,834,922 followers), than Justin Bieber (61,530,724 followers), and the third user with the most followers is Barack Obama (56,555,708 followers). Hash tags were a big thing last year and the highest hash tag was #WorldCup with 21.6 million tweets on twitter in 2014. As you can see, technology controls the world. Even though it keeps us all connected, don’t think we use it to much?
We spend so much time on social media; most of the things we look at are mostly celebrities. On average we spend 51 minutes on Facebook, 34.2 minutes on tumblr, and 21.2 minutes on Instagram every day.
Reality TV is one thing everybody will watch. America’s most watched TV series for 2014 were ‘The Big Band Theory’, ‘NCIS’ and ‘Sunday Night Football’. On average, American’s spend about 5 hours per day watching TV.
Images are represented to make society feel a certain way; to agree or disagree.
Images are used to support celebrities, which may not be 100% true. Images can represent women as sex icons or that they aren’t skinny enough just by the way media presented the image.
Words, phrases and quotes are all types of techniques which creates a reaction, whether it’s positive or negative. Media can say that their source is a close friend of a certain celebrity, but is it really? The media does exactly this, makes us believe quotes or phrases which may not be 100% true.
Technology, Media and Celebrities negatively impact society in many ways. Society is being told many things, but how much of it is the truth? From unreliable source, to celebrities taking over the news. The media is much to blame, how many times have they extended the truth? Or used unnecessary or unrelated photos?
Technology can be to blame as well. On average we look at our phones 1,500 times a week, and spend up to 3 hours and 16 minutes on our devices. What drives us to technology so much? Social media? Celebrities are one of the main reasons we go on social media. Why focus on our own lives, when we can just stalk what celebrities
do?
The cult of celebrity provides a negative impact towards society and where our futures are going. From stalking social media to see what celebrities are doing, to the media possibly stretching the truth towards a celebrity just to get a reaction out of society. We need to change our attitudes or we will turn into a celebrity driven society.
What Does The Cult Of Celebrity Mean To Us?
The cult of celebrity is destroying our society. Celebrities have impacted on how we look and act, mostly in a negative way. Our everyday lives are affected by the cult of celebrity; it’s in our conversations, our magazines and newspapers. The cult of celebrity is taking interest in famous individuals and this is what everyone does, every day.
Cult is a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object. A celebrity is a famous or well-known person, who is often seen in magazine articles or TV shows. These 2 things together create the cult of celebrity, which is society following celebrities every move. Celebrities bad behaviour can encourage their …show more content…
fans, which makes society try and become a certain way. Why do the media present stories on celebrity’s personal life? We don’t need to know every little thing that happens in their lives. Celebrity culture presents the beauty and skinny idea, which brings out eating disorders.
The top 3 Googled celebrities (excluding deaths) are Jennifer Lawrence at number 1, than Kim Kadashian, then Tracy Morgan. The most viewed YouTube videos are Gangnam Style (Psy) at number 1, than Baby (Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris), and thirdly Dark Horse (Katy Perry featuring Juicy J). Twitter is a huge social media site and the user with the most followers is Katy Perry (66,834,922 followers), than Justin Bieber (61,530,724 followers), and the third user with the most followers is Barack Obama (56,555,708 followers). Hash tags were a big thing last year and the highest hash tag was #WorldCup with 21.6 million tweets on twitter in 2014. As you can see, technology controls the world. Even though it keeps us all connected, don’t think we use it to much?
We spend so much time on social media; most of the things we look at are mostly celebrities. On average we spend 51 minutes on Facebook, 34.2 minutes on tumblr, and 21.2 minutes on Instagram every day.
Reality TV is one thing everybody will watch. America’s most watched TV series for 2014 were ‘The Big Band Theory’, ‘NCIS’ and ‘Sunday Night Football’. On average, American’s spend about 5 hours per day watching TV.
Images are represented to make society feel a certain way; to agree or disagree.
Images are used to support celebrities, which may not be 100% true. Images can represent women as sex icons or that they aren’t skinny enough just by the way media presented the image.
Words, phrases and quotes are all types of techniques which creates a reaction, whether it’s positive or negative. Media can say that their source is a close friend of a certain celebrity, but is it really? The media does exactly this, makes us believe quotes or phrases which may not be 100% true.
Technology, Media and Celebrities negatively impact society in many ways. Society is being told many things, but how much of it is the truth? From unreliable source, to celebrities taking over the news. The media is much to blame, how many times have they extended the truth? Or used unnecessary or unrelated photos?
Technology can be to blame as well. On average we look at our phones 1,500 times a week, and spend up to 3 hours and 16 minutes on our devices. What drives us to technology so much? Social media? Celebrities are one of the main reasons we go on social media. Why focus on our own lives, when we can just stalk what celebrities
do?
The cult of celebrity provides a negative impact towards society and where our futures are going. From stalking social media to see what celebrities are doing, to the media possibly stretching the truth towards a celebrity just to get a reaction out of society. We need to change our attitudes or we will turn into a celebrity driven society.