[ecrea] CFP Audiences and Celebrity - Special Issue of Celebrity Studies

Special issue of Celebrity Studies

Audiences for Celebrity

Edited by Martin Barker, Su Holmes and Sarah Ralph



The study of audiences for celebrities and stars has developed 
spasmodically. Apart from important early studies by Stacey (1994) and 
Kuhn (2002), and from a different angle Gamson (1994) Barbas (2001) and 
Allen and Mendick (2012), and a variety of marketing-derived studies, 
there has been only a scatter of works concretely addressing how 
distinct audiences engage with celebrities, and how those engagements 
become meaningful within their broader lives. For this Special Issue we 
hope to gather essays embodying a range of kinds of research in both 
audience and reception studies traditions. We invite proposals for 
papers to appear in a special issue of Celebrity Studies exploring how 
audiences engage (positively or negatively) with celebrity figures and 
culture. Proposals may address (but are not limited to) the following 
topics:

· Studies of audiences for particular stars/ celebrities (from a range 
of different media forms, including film, TV, popular music, literature, 
sport, internet, social media, theatre, opera etc…)

· Studies of online fan cultures, or users of a particular media form

· Historical/ archival studies of audience engagements with celebrities/ 
stars

· Discussions of methodological issues in the study of celebrity/ star 
audiences

· Studies of celebrity/ star controversies or spectacular moments and 
audience responses

Please submit an extended abstract of 500 words (outlining the topic, 
methods, audience or reception materials used, and contribution to 
Celebrity Studies and Audience Studies) to (susan.holmes /at/ uea.ac.uk), by 
Friday 1st November. Please also include a brief biographical note of 
4-5 lines. We plan to complete evaluation of abstracts by the end of 
November. Those accepted will be asked to submit completed essays, to a 
maximum of 8,000 words, by the end of June 2014.





Dr Sarah Ralph

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Make Me Laugh Research Project



School of Film, Television and Media Studies

University of East Anglia

Norwich Research Park

Norwich NR4 7TJ

Tel: +44 (0) 1603 593801

www.makemelaugh.org.uk



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