Eds. Gaëlle Ouvrein, Ana Jorge, & Hilde Van den Bulck

Deadline: May 15, 2022

ABOUT THE BOOK

This book aims to offer an interdisciplinary approach of a number of key topics related with celebrities and their audience: mental health, race and LGBTQ, celebrity scandals/cancel culture and influencers in non-profit sector. It does this by approaching these topics from less common perspectives. How can we analyze para-social relationships from a critical or persuasive approach? Or how can we increase our insights on celebrity commercialism from a cultural/critical perspective? Throughout the book, special attention will be paid to the disciplines of social psychology, critical/cultural studies and persuasion/marketing perspective. By concentrating on 4 main topics on celebrities and their audience, we aim to bring knowledge from different fields together to encourage academic cross-fertilization.

CHAPTER DETAILS

We welcome original contributions of both empirical and theoretical nature. Commissioned chapters will be max. 8,000 words (including references). Style, general structure and referencing guides will be provided to authors whose chapter proposals are accepted. The editors reserve the right to negotiate chapter contents to avoid content crossover, duplication and gaps.

IMPORTANT DATES

Proposals Submission Deadline: May 15, 2022

Notification of acceptance: May 30, 2022

Full Chapters Due: October 1, 2022

Questions and proposals: gaelle.ouvrein@uantwerpen.be

More information can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wxwGh8ZeAwXFLv0OCSDmAsxRNZgOU3Rr/view?usp=sharing