Celebrity and Politics

Majic, Samantha; O’Neill, Daniel; Bernhard, Michaël

doi:10.1017/s1537592719004602

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“…A study in America found out that certain characteristic traits including gender, ethnicity, race, age, ~ 292 ~ etc. matter more in elections [3] and the same could effectively be implied for the Indian political landscape too. This process by which we select our voters motivated by things unimportant for governance and development already partially diminishes the purpose of democracy.…”

Section: Analysis Celebrity Politics: a Threat To Democracy?mentioning

confidence: 90%

The era of celebrity politics and its echoes

Gurikar

2023

Int. J. Political Sci. Governance

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In the era of social media where each and every person is focused on promotional gimmicks and influencing people across the world, a new kind of politics is also taking cognizance. This is the era of celebrity politics where famous people start interfering with regional and national politics which leads to certain consequences on that political system. The paper tries to analyze these consequences along with corelating the democratic concept of welfare, development and progress to the interference of celebrities in politics by analyzing certain case studies. The paper also tries to analyze whether there could be an alternate approach adopted in electing the representatives.

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Section: Analysis Celebrity Politics: a Threat To Democracy?mentioning

confidence: 90%

The era of celebrity politics and its echoes

Gurikar

2023

Int. J. Political Sci. Governance

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“…The influence of hearing about her endorsement is investigated in this study using data from an experiment. The number of participants' positive thoughts of Obama or how much they found him likable was unaffected by their exposure to such news (Majic et al, 2020).…”

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Celebrities’ Influence on the Students’ Voting Preferences

Bulotano,

Sumicad,

Ting

et al. 2023

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Celebrities' participation in the election process is essential. One thing that draws the public's attention is their influence. The ideas and behaviors of their favorite celebrities can readily sway the public, which has varying viewpoints when selecting a candidate. This study aims to ascertain the impact of celebrities on students' voting preferences in the May 2022 election. The primary data collection tool for the study was a descriptive-correlational questionnaire. At the University of Cebu-Main Campus, quantitative data were employed to ascertain the celebrities' influence on students' voting preferences. At the Department of the College of Arts and Sciences, 154 individuals responded. Participants in the survey completed an online questionnaire when they were willing to respond to the questions. The primary tool used to collect the data was a survey questionnaire created for the study that had passed pilot testing to determine its reliability. Frequency and count, weighted Mean, and the chi-square test were employed for data analysis. Statistically, there is no sufficient evidence to reject the null hypothesis, which means there is no significant correlation between the respondent profile measured by age and year level and the Degree of celebrity influence on voting choices. However, the null hypothesis is rejected because there is a significant relationship between the respondents' sex and program enrollment profiles and the Degree of celebrity influence over voting preferences. The four groups of respondents said they would instead support a politician who has worked on humanitarian efforts vis-à-vis the Celebrity. The level of influence of celebrities during the May 2022 election is significantly influential.

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“…States and other powerful actors create propaganda narratives that reinforce deeply embedded beliefs and identities, while activists try to expose the lies of these narratives or replace them with alternatives. Sometimes the most politically consequential narratives come from sources outside the boundaries of institutional politics, from conspiracy theories (Cassam, 2019) to religious revivals (Abiri, 2021;Gorski & Perry, 2022;Holmes, 2001;Kyaw, 2021;Simandjuntak, 2021;Tonsakulrungruang, 2021;Van der Veer, 2021) to celebrity fandoms (Cramer, 2015;Majic et al, 2020). The growth of social media has further transformed the ways these narratives circulate (Adunbi, 2017; de Sa e Silva, 2022b; Khan & Aziz, Chapter 12 in this Handbook; Nyabola, 2018;Nyong'o, 2012;Wang & Liu, Chapter 9 in this Handbook).…”

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Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change: On "legitimate political discourse" in the global twenty-first century

Yarbrough¹,

Shdaimah²,

Boutcher³

2023

Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change

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Capitol, just visitors from across the country taking in the iconic sights with an air of menacing joy. On the House floor, they rummaged through Members' desks and play-acted in the Speaker's chair. It was here that much of the world met the "shaman." Wearing a horned hat and a shit-eating grin, he was an online influencer among followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory. NORDDEUTSCHE NEUESTE NACHRICHTEN (Germany) Trump-Fans Stürmen KapitolThe convergence between these different styles of protest and different sets of protestors, if that is the word, was perhaps the most confusing element of all. Men in black, zip ties in hand, moved quietly among rowdy revelers on the House floor as they searched for elected officials to forcibly detain. The crowd's chants ranged from "Stop the Steal" to "Hang Mike Pence," and a noose on the Capitol lawn underlined the point. What emerged in the spectacle of that day was a coalition of groups united in the conviction that Donald Trump remained U.S. President, and that any means were justified in pursuit of that conviction. STRAITS TIMES (Singapore) Chinese media and netizens mock "beautiful sight" of US Capitol chaosIntertwined with the militias, white supremacists, and conspiracy theorists, that coalition included several different strands of mostly but not exclusively white conservatives. They were Christian nationalists and libertarians, rural farmers and suburban business-owners. FOREIGN POLICY The Jan. 6 Insurrectionists Aren't Who You Think They AreAnd they were police. Almost thirty off-duty officers from a dozen nationwide departments were identified as attending the pro-Trump rally that morning, and some were charged with participating in the subsequent assault. The Capitol Police suspended a half-dozen of its own officers and investigated several more for their actions that day. This overlap between law enforcement and militia movements was not new, but its implications were now bracingly clear. LE FIGARO (Paris) Démocratie fracturéeThe hard truth is that this was less an assault on legality itself than a battle between competing legalities. Despite all its violence -through all its violence -the January 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol was an attempt at what scholars of authoritarian legality call "rule by law," in which legal processes and institutions are used to instantiate and legitimize authoritarian rule. The assault intended to reconfigure a legal process, and its strategy was undergirded by legal

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Celebrity and Politics

Cited by 8 publications

References 29 publications

The era of celebrity politics and its echoes

The era of celebrity politics and its echoes

Celebrities’ Influence on the Students’ Voting Preferences

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Law, Movements and Social Change: On "legitimate political discourse" in the global twenty-first century

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