Hur välgörenhetsorganisationer kommunicerar är betydelsefullt för att skapa engagemang. Genom att använda olika element i kampanjfilmer kan organisationerna öka uppmärksamheten och medvetenheten hos mottagaren. Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på hur två av Sveriges främsta välgörenhets­organisationer kommunicerar via kampanjfilmer för att väcka ett engagemang hos publiken. Vi undersöker vilka element och myter som finns närvarande i kampanjfilmerna, hur celebriteter kan bidra till att väcka engagemang samt vilken roll sociala medier har i publikens engagemang. Den teori vi utgår från i denna studie berör ämnen som celebriteter, publikengagemang samt spridning i sociala medier. Det är en kvalitativ studie med en induktiv ansats och vi genomför en semiotisk bildanalys samt retorisk analys av fyra kampanjfilmer. Urvalet består av två kampanjfilmer från Unicef och två kampanjfilmer från Plan Sverige. Studiens resultat visar att välgörenhetsorganisationer använder celebriteter för att tilltala målgrupper i olika åldrar och för att öka trovärdigheten i deras kommunikation. Genom att använda utsatta barn som element förstärks känslor som medlidande och frustration över barnens situation och detta kan väcka känslor och behov av ett djupare engagemang hos mottagaren. Att använda element som humor, kända talespersoner samt unika budskap kan kampanjer sticka ut från mängden och få en större spridning i sociala medier. Mottagare kan känna en vilja att dela budskapen vidare, dels för att stärka sitt personliga varumärke men även för att inleda en diskussion kring problemet. / How charities communicate is an important aspect in creating engagement. By using different elements in campaign films, organizations can increase the visibility and awareness of the receiver. The purpose of this study is to find out how two of Sweden's leading charity organizations communicate via campaign films in order to create engagement. We examine which elements and myths that are present in the campaign films, how celebrities can help to encourage involvement and the role of social media in audience engagement. The theoretical framework for this study is based upon topics such as celebrity spokespersons, audience engagement and spread in social media. It is a qualitative study using an inductive approach, and we conduct a semiotic and rhetorical analysis of four campaign films. The sample consists of two campaign films by the organization Unicef ​​and two campaign films from Plan Sverige. The study shows that charities use famous people to appeal to audiences of different ages and to increase the credibility of the communication. By using underprivileged children as elements, feelings of compassion and frustration over the situation of children are reinforced and this can arouse a need of deeper involvement of the receiver. Using elements of comedy, celebrities and unique messages, campaigns can stand out from the crowd and get a larger spread in social media. Receivers may feel a desire to share the messages further, partly to strengthen their personal brand, but also to create a debate on the issue.

本文宗旨在於闡析、幫助網路創作者深入調查，除了創作之外，如何從精準運用媒體特性、持續與閱讀者互動裡，一步步蛻變為網路名人。線上社群網絡提供了虛擬世界，讓個人得以紓發思想、意見或創作，也讓一些網路創作者，在持續的深耕作品與他人的互動關係下，逐漸累積出一定規模的粉絲數及網路能見度。本文也探討在台灣現況的社會、文化脈絡下，網路創作者如何慢慢累積、獲得不同的社會資本、進而成為網路名人。 這篇研究採取半結構式面談，汲取六個成功經營的網路名人親身經驗，希望能全面且完整的提供台灣網路名人的蛻變面向。 / The present research aims to investigate how to positively help online content creators become Internet celebrities besides from continuously produce contents---by appropriately utilizing different characteristics of social medium and constantly interacting with the audience in Taiwan. Online social networks have provided a cyber space for everyone to express thoughts/opinion/creation, some content creators have gained loads of followers, fans and visibility due to continuously developing and cultivating the content and relationships. This study examines the process of how online content creators acquire social capital through practical performance to the path of becoming Internet celebrities with a strong focus on the social and cultural contexts in Taiwan. To fulfill the purpose, this study conducts face-to-face semi-structure interviews with six successful online content creators, in the hope to develop comprehensive understanding of the process and factors of becoming Internet celebrities in Taiwan.

This study examines the role of social media in maintaining interest in classic cinema in today’s media culture. Ethnographic analyses and case studies were performed within a robust classic cinema fan network on the social media blogging site Tumblr. The practices of these bloggers and their online platform are framed against the traditional structure of the curator and museum, indicating that they serve many of the cultural functions attributed to these institutions. This study further demonstrates that these Tumblr networks serve as a resource for young people to discover, share, and create communities relating to classic cinema. Due to the networking capabilities of Tumblr’s youth-oriented platform, these fan activities reach a broad range of individuals, exposing them to scenes and actors from classic cinema, stimulating interest in and acceptance of the cinematic framework of classic films. This content visibility and distribution potentially draws those outside the community into the extant fan network. These communities and practices represent previously unexplored methods by which classic cinema appreciation may develop and thrive within the fast-paced media culture of the 21st century. / text

本研究以政治人物馬英九為例，探討台灣主要報紙是否出現「名人政治」現象，並探討「名人政治」的新聞框架為何？有何主要特質？呈現的方式是否和傳統政治新聞報導不同？研究對象為自由時報、聯合報及中國時報三家報紙從馬英九從擔任台北市長起至卸任國民黨主席止的新聞報導。以等距抽樣法抽取864則新聞進行分析。研究發現三家主要報紙報導馬英九新聞時都出現「名人政治」的新聞框架，其中以「政治風格」的框架最為顯著，報紙重視政治姿態、品行道德的領導能力描述，另外，報紙也常用「背景故事」把名人私領域的生活面向帶入公領域。「馬英九現象」和「個人特質」、「背景故事」和「社會互動」等框架的論述密切相關，因此確實減少了公共政策或政治議題的報導數量，不過不同報紙的框架仍有差異，隨著馬英九政治位置的重要性，名人政治的新聞框架也有所變化。但就馬英九這位政治人物來說，台灣主要報紙確實出現個人特質和政治風格鮮明的「名人化」現象。 / In a time when it is commonplace for political celebrities to garner media attention as much media attention for their political performance as for their particular personal life. The author wanted to analyze a famous political figure Ma Ying-jeou to learn the process of celebrification coupled with Gans description of the norms of news reporting, the following indicators would suggest celebrification of political content. The author used the news stories from three major newspapers in Taiwan as sample to find out elements of a celebrity that would attract the journalists as well as media organizations. The result showed that the strategies were utilized to sell the political celebrity was similar to those of the Western media.

運用代言人來為品牌進行代言已成為普遍的廣告行銷手法，在各種不同類型的代言人當中，又以「名人」做為代言人的現象最為普遍。由於名人本身具有鮮明特殊的形象與個性，又受到大眾的信任與喜愛，同時任何一舉一動都容易吸引媒體與社會的高度關注，因此，邀請名人為品牌代言，就可以輕易地利用其高知名度來獲取消費者的矚目，並以名人相關的豐富聯想來塑造品牌形象，更可以將消費者對於名人的喜好一併移轉到品牌身上。 本研究觀察了名人的代言現象，發現過去國內外學者的研究皆以「企業」觀點出發，探討企業應該如何挑選代言人以提升品牌權益，卻忽略了在名人為品牌進行代言的同時，名人的品牌權益也會因此正向提升或負向削弱。因此本研究以「名人」的角度出發，將名人視為一個品牌，探討名人擔任品牌代言人的過程中哪些因素將影響名人的品牌權益，希望提供企業挑選品牌代言人、以及名人面對代言邀約時的參考依據。 在研究設計方面，首先挑選台灣近十年來代言數量多、知名度高、而且較沒有明顯政治立場的名人，最後選擇蔡依林做為研究客體。研究採問卷調查法，以便利抽樣方式在台北市信義商圈發放紙本問卷、在台灣大學BBS討論區PTT上發放網路問卷，最後總共回收有效問卷共300份。 研究結果發現，名人形象與品牌形象的差異、名人與品牌間的關聯程度，以及名人代言品牌產品的知覺品質會影響消費者對於代言關係的認同感，進而影響名人的品牌權益。當名人形象與品牌形象越一致、名人與品牌的關聯程度越高、代言產品的知覺品質越佳時，消費者對於代言關係的認同感越高，而名人的品牌權益便因而提升。

This thesis explores the concepts of “voice” and “influence” through the case studies of two famous English-speaking Canadian women writers, Margaret Atwood and Carol Shields. The “voice” is multiple, ambiguous and influenced, but it is also apparently unique. How, therefore, is it constructed and where does it come from? I examine, work with and adapt Harold Bloom’s paradigmatic study of influence to a feminist context, exploring the idea that a literary voice can be developed and influenced by Atwood and Shields. I discuss how these writers searched for an appropriate literary role model, exemplified by nineteenth-century English-Canadian writer Susanna Moodie, at the moment when Canadian nationalism and feminism coincided. Atwood and Shields are now canonical writers themselves and important in both the nationalist and women’s tradition, but have they gone on to influence new Canadian women writers? I test the pleasures and the anxieties of Shields’ influence with regard to her creative writing students and her own daughter, Anne Giardini, who has published her first novel. I compare Shields with Atwood, who has achieved a high level of fame, and examine what kind of influence each exerts. I discuss whether literary influence is politically different for women than men and whether there is any jealousy or power struggles between the sexes. Rivalry and competition between writers are not purely caused by the aesthetic issues that Bloom discusses, therefore I contextualise his concept of influence using literary celebrity studies to consider the economic basis of cultural production. This is in order to show that tensions are determined by market conditions, just as much as the new poet’s desire to overthrow a literary precursor. Finally, I examine fan letters to Atwood and Shields as another important source of literary influence. I discuss how fans are constructed through a commercial relationship and how they can also provide an amateur literary voice. Atwood and Shields have helped to create a network of writers across the globe. I explore whether both authors can be role models who will inspire the next literary generation.

Fandom is, as scholars in relevant areas of Media Studies and Sociology attest, a vibrant aspect of contemporary culture and influential in individuals' expression and construction of their identities. This thesis examines and endeavours to challenge how fandom, defined as "emotionally involved consumption of a given popular narrative or text," is conceived and received in contemporary art. It addresses misconceptions about art by four artists who explicitly express their fan identities in their artwork and examines how a finer understanding of fandom can enrich contemporary art discourse and illuminate the artists' works. Bringing together the fields of art criticism and cultural studies, the thesis explores the impact of contemporary artists' fandom on their depiction of celebrities and the critical reception these artworks have received. The principal artists whose works and fan identities are analysed are: Ryan McGinley (b. Ramsey, New Jersey, 1977-), Elizabeth Peyton (b. Danbury, Connecticut, 1965-), Karen Kilimnik (b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1955-) and Stella Vine (b. Alnwick, England, 1969). In addition to these, art works by eleven other prominent late twentieth and early twenty-first century artists are presented as revealing contrasts. These artists, the principal artists and their comparisons, all are not only doing something interesting artistically; their work presents different approaches to expansive concerns about the nature and function of fans and celebrity in wider culture. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to evaluate how fandom manifests itself in artists' work, whether fan feelings are discernible in their artwork and how admissions of fandom, either through artists' public declarations or evidence in their art, influence critical interpretation of art and colours public perception of the artists themselves.

This thesis follows the process of transformation of children's idols of film and music industry into adult artists and sex-symbols of contemporary popular culture. It especially focuses on the transformation of child character in adult representatives of pop-culture industry: development, change and building an image of an adult performer in terms of the sociology of childhood and adulthood career shift (change in the nature of work and roles, any rise or decline). The aim of this work is to find any trends in transition from children's heroes / heroines adults representative of contemporary popular culture. The premise is that children's personalities of the entertainment industry are used in the process of growing element of sexuality to reforging the stigma of "child stars". In addition to the sexual themes and monitors the aspect of gender roles and stereotypes depending on the developmental stage.

This dissertation analyzes the trending habits of children as mass-media users. The goal of this dissertation is to show how children use massmedia, what does television mean to them and who are their favourite celebrities. The empirical segment is based on analysis of data taken from questionnaires created purposely for quantitative research. These questionnaires were given to students in the 6th grades of elementary schools and 1st grades of 8-year secondary grammar schools, both in Prague in the Czech Republic. At the beginning, there is a general theoretical part - an overview of mass-communication and its influence on the socialisation of children and a series of advantages and disadvantages of the impact of mass-communication on children and also characteristics of the age group of my respondents. The following text is divided in three parts that relate to three parts of the questionnaire. The first part analyzes how much children use media in their leisure time, what types of media are most popular amongst them. The second part focuses on television, what TV programmes are popular amongst children and why, if adolescents have something forbidden from their parents and what they think about watching television. And finally, the third part debates which celebrities our children admire,...

The diploma thesis deals with the media heroization / construction of dead celebrity icons. The introduction focuses on the explanation of the process of becoming an icon and its interpretation in certain fields and theoretical concepts, for example in the context of semiotics and sociology. A separate chapter is devoted to the role of media in the process. I attempt to reveal the media's influence on this process by studying the theory of media construction of reality and the ctreation of culture industry. The second chapter also explains the phenomenon of celebritization, which is crucial due to the applied example of dead celebrities. Based on the specific analysis I try to identify trends that are reflected in media representation of dead celebrities afterlife, and these further put in a wider context. The aim of the master thesis is to find out what trends are reflected in media representation of celebrities after their death, how the media work to maintain dead celebrities "alive", and what are the specifics of this "life". The content analysis was determined to show the character of media coverage. The semiotic analysis on the other hand to show what myths are constructed around the famous dead celebrities.