Celebrity political action in the age of new media
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JAY Z said he doesn't have any "ill will" toward Donald J. Trump, but he "cannot be our president." Before introducing Hillary Clinton onstage with Beyoncé at t...he Cleveland, Ohio, rally, Jay Z repeated this twice: "Once you divide us, you weaken us. We're stronger together" http://cnn.it/2f3nJi5
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Beautiful Humanitarians: The Public Faces of International Development in the 1950s and 1960s Dr Agnieszka SobocinskaNational Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University How did the public come to understand and engage with foreign aid and international development? In this lecture, Dr Agnieszk...
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Celebrity is bigger than ever:
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What are our expectations of celebrities? From fellow celebrity activists?
"If you're famous and you're black, you have to be an activist. Activism is a guy who says, "I'm a multimillionaire, and I'm going to help." Activism is transparent."
Red Nose Day US goes celebrity-meta:
The best comedy sketch we could make, about the best Live FUN-raising TV Special we could produce, with the greatest stars we could find, saying as many word...
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From Robert van Krieken: "There is a connection between the social and economic mechanisms underpinning the social figures we normally identify as celebrities – actors, actresses, TV personalities, sports stars – and the transformations affecting universities around the world. My larger project has been to reclaim the analysis of celebrity for core conceptual concerns in sociology like inequality, identity, power and governance, and there are a number of ways in which scientific scholarship is a key example of the processes and dynamics of “celebrity society.”"
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Angelina Jolie Pitt, Visiting Professor in Practice, on the creation of the MSc in Women, Peace and Security at LSE:
“I am very encouraged by the creation of th...is master’s programme. I hope other academic institutions will follow this example, as it is vital that we broaden the discussion on how to advance women’s rights and end impunity for crimes that disproportionately affect women, such as sexual violence in conflict. I am looking forward to teaching and to learning from the students as well as to sharing my own experiences of working alongside governments and the United Nations”.
See MoreWe are a group of researchers connected to Roskilde University (Denmark) who are interested in how celebrities shape North-South relations. For further information see: www.celebnorthsouth.wordpress.com
- "I plead instead that we stop bestowing these attention-seeking, arb...itrary, ridiculous awards and honours, especially for “achievements” in feminism and gender equality. Because these “wins” are starting to look a lot more like losses." See More
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