Celebrity CEOs and the Cultural Economy of Tabloid Intimacy

Littler, Jo

doi:10.4135/9781446269534.n22

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“…Näitä avainhenkilöitä valmennetaan räätälöidyllä koulutuksella. Esimerkiksi toimitusjohtajasta on tullut monessa yrityksessä tärkeä symbolinen keskushahmo, joka luo organisaatiolle yhteistä identiteettiä ja imagoa sekä henkilöstön että asiakkaiden ja osakkeenomistajien suuntaan (Kantola 2009;Littler 2007;Heinonen 2006). Usein johtajan ensimmäiset kuukaudet ovat tärkeimpiä.…”

Section: Semmoinen Joka Pystyy Tiivistämään Pelkistämään Kirkastamaanunclassified

Viestinnän ammattilaiset promootioyhteiskunnassa: <br>aktivisteja ja ajatusjohtajia

Kantola¹,

Lounasmeri²

2014

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Viestintätoimistojen, konsulttien ja muiden PR-ammattilaisten käyttö on lisääntynyt Suomessa 2000-luvulla ja levinnyt entistä enemmän yrityselämästä julkiselle sektorille ja järjestöihin. Tässä artikkelissa kuvaamme tämän promootioyhteiskunnan keskeisen ammattikunnan kasvua ja työkäytäntöjä: miten ja millä keinoilla viestinnän ammattilaiset pyrkivät vaikuttamaan julkisuuteen? Tulkitsemme ammattikunnan nousua osana yhteiskunnan laajempaa muutosta ja pohdimme myös viestinnän konsultoitiin liittyviä kysymyksiä journalismin ohittamisesta, konsultoinnin läpinäkyvyydestä sekä rahan vallasta julkisuuden hallinnassa ja lobbauksessa. Artikkeli perustuu vuonna 2013 tehtyihin viestintäammattilaisten haastatteluihin.

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Viestinnän ammattilaiset promootioyhteiskunnassa: <br>aktivisteja ja ajatusjohtajia

Kantola¹,

Lounasmeri²

2014

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“…Celebrity is not the exclusive domain of media, entertainment and sports, but is also apparent in politics (Street, 2004), gastronomy (Hyman, 2008), business (Littler, 2007) and academia (Moran, 1998;Williams, 2006). Interestingly, this raises the question of whether this contradicts the shift from idols of production toward idols of consumption, as Leo Löwenthal (1984: 206-08) once lamented, or rather, as I would propose, if the idols of production have also become idols of consumption.…”

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The celebritization of society and culture: Understanding the structural dynamics of celebrity culture

Driessens

2012

International Journal of Cultural Studies

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In recent debates about the ever-growing prominence of celebrity in society and culture, a number of scholars have started to use the often intermingled terms celebrification and celebritization. This article contributes to these debates first by distinguishing and clearly defining both terms and especially by presenting a multidimensional conceptual model of celebritization to remedy the current one-sided approaches that obscure its theoretical and empirical complexity. Here celebrification captures the transformation of ordinary people and public figures into celebrities, whereas celebritization is conceptualized as a meta-process that grasps the changing nature, as well as the societal and cultural embedding of celebrity, which can be observed through its democratization, diversification and migration. It is argued that these manifestations of celebritization are driven by three separate but interacting moulding forces: mediatization, personalization and commodification.

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“…In these organizations, the CEO holds a central position, and managerial strategies often rely on effective symbolic labour (Costea et al 2008;Heelas 2002;Thrift 1998). In the dispersed organization, the CEO symbolizes the core of the company's identity (Littler 2007) and assumes a central operational role in building the company's communications (Downing 2001: 231-152). In practice, many enterprises continue to operate with many-tiered, hierarchy-based mechanistic models (Thrift 2000: 674) and combine bureaucratic control with newer soft management practices.…”

Section: Media In Corporate Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, today many CEOs also carefully orchestrate their public images (Khurana 2002;Gaines-Ross 2003;Petrelius Karlberg 2007;Ketchen et al 2008: 529). Corporate leaders have lost their facelessness and become heroic celebrities who communicate optimism, confidence and a can-do attitude (Littler 2007). They provide a symbolic pole embodying the 'soul of the company' (Garten 2001: 19).…”

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Mediatization of Power: Corporate CEOs in Flexible Capitalism

Kantola

2014

Nordicom Review

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The present article analyses the mediatization of corporate power with a special focus on the work of the CEO. A review of the literature on the role of the media in corporate management, especially in the work of corporate leaders, shows how the techniques of power in corporate management have become mediatized. Different media have become increasingly important for the work of corporate leaders. More importantly, media have become tools of power. In flexible and soft capitalism, corporate power is exercised using performative and affective techniques aimed at identity and community formation. Consequently, different media are utilized as tools of corporate management and control. With regard to the mediatization of power, the case of corporate management suggests that one should look into the societal and institutional structures of power rather than into the power of the media.

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Celebrity CEOs and the Cultural Economy of Tabloid Intimacy

Cited by 22 publications

References 10 publications

Viestinnän ammattilaiset promootioyhteiskunnassa: <br>aktivisteja ja ajatusjohtajia

Viestinnän ammattilaiset promootioyhteiskunnassa: <br>aktivisteja ja ajatusjohtajia

The celebritization of society and culture: Understanding the structural dynamics of celebrity culture

Mediatization of Power: Corporate CEOs in Flexible Capitalism

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