[ecrea] Celebrity & Youth Anthology CFP

Call for Chapters

/Celebrity & Youth Anthology/

Spring-Serenity Duvall, editor

Forthcoming, 2018

Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.

Mediated Youth Series (Sharon R. Mazzarella, Series Editor)

The anthology /Celebrity & Youth/, currently under contract with Peter 
Lang Publishing, Inc, will be a collection of scholarship that explores 
contemporary fame, youth, ageing, and media. /Celebrity & Youth/ will 
encourage interdisciplinary examinations of intersectional identities, 
diversity within celebrity and fan cultures, and an international 
perspective on the production of stardom.

This volume will foreground critical methodologies and specifically 
encourage reception studies and political economy approaches to 
understanding celebrity and youth cultures. /Celebrity & Youth/ will 
interrogate such topics as the production of fame among young social 
media stars, the aspirations of young consumers to attain stardom, and 
the impact that celebrities may have on notions of citizenship and 
socio-political engagement for young people. /Celebrity & Youth/ will 
also consider young people as celebrity content producers – such as 
YouTube stars – in order to explore how audiences may bestow the status 
of “expert” or “auteur” on young creators.

This collection considers the processes of celebrities and audiences 
ageing from youth into maturity, as well as shifting notions of what 
constitutes “youthfulness.” Finally, this volume will explore how youth 
is being articulated and marketed across a range of media platforms and 
social realms – from product endorsements and the social media 
phenomenon of young Instagram fashion stars to voter turnout efforts and 
celebrity hashtag activism.

Potential topics related to youth and celebrity include, but are not 
limited to:

-Celebrity hashtag activists and appeals to young protesters around such 
issues as Black Lives Matter, sex trafficking, and environmentalism

-Niche celebrities and audience fracturing by racial, ethnic, gender, 
sexuality, and religious identities

-“Child stars” with famous parents, such as Willow and Jaden Smith and 
Miley Cyrus

-Aging and youth as social constructs

-Audience interpretations, with an emphasis on the perspective of 
diverse young consumers and considerations of intersectional identities

-Gendered youth consumption of celebrities, including girl cultures

-Celebrity boyhood and masculinity

-Global political celebrity and the significance of the “youth vote”

-Gaming celebrity, including game designers as auteurs and celebrity gamers

-Muslim social media/blogging celebrities

-Plastic surgery/body modification and shifting beauty norms

-Gender non-conformity

-Fame and sexuality; LGBTQ stars and audiences

-Youth audiences negotiating coming of age

-Aspirations to criminal fame through gun violence/school shootings

-YouTube youth stars

-Babies/children made social media stars by parents

-Youth consumerism and celebrity product endorsements

-Young supermodels such as Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner; beauty 
industry stars such as James Charles

**

*Proposals*

Send 500 word abstracts and brief contributor bios to**Spring Duvall at 
(spring.duvall /at/ salem.edu) <mailto:(spring.duvall /at/ salem.edu)>.

*Timeline*

April 15: Abstracts due

April 30: Contributors notified of decisions on proposals

August 31: First draft chapters due to editor

December 15: Final chapters due to editor

*Editor*

Dr. Spring-Serenity Duvall is a media studies scholar who researches 
transnational celebrity culture, commodity activism, breastfeeding 
advocacy, and girl cultures. She is an Assistant Professor of 
Communication and Chair of the Communication Department at Salem College 
(USA). In 2015, she was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in 
Transnational Studies 
<http://www.fulbright.ca/programs/american-scholars/2014-15-american-fulbright-scholars.html>at 
Brock University <https://brocku.ca/> in St. Catharines, Ontario, where 
she conducted a research project titled /“Canadian Celebrity Activism 
and Transnational Media in the Niagara Border Region.” /

Her research on celebrity culture appears in the journals /Celebrity 
Studies;/ /Communication, Culture, and Critique; /and /Feminist Media 
Studies /as well as the anthologies /Celebrity Travels: Media Spectacles 
and the Construction of a Transnational Politics of Care/ (Radha S. 
Hegde, editor, 2011) and /Celebrity Colonialism: Fame, Representation, 
and Power in Colonial and Post-Colonial Cultures/ (Robert Clarke, 
editor, 2009).

She is the co-author, with Dr. Leigh Moscowitz 
<https://www.sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/faculty-staff/moscowitz_leigh.php>, 
of the book /"Snatched: Child Abductions in US News"/ 
<http://www.amazon.com/Snatched-Child-Abductions-Media-Mediated/dp/1433127156/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451332042&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=snatched+duvall+and+moskowitz>//(2016) 
which analyzes over a decade of mainstream news coverage of high profile 
abduction cases. Her girls studies research has been published in the 
/Journal of Children & Media/.


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