From its origins in Black grassroots activist and political consciousness raising spaces, the term ‘woke’ has shifted significance. Now broadly synonymous with statements on social media that are assumed to indicate an investment tackling injustices, specifically, antiblackness racial injustice, it also become subject of heated critique. Using key case studies such as ‘I take responsibility’ In...

Purpose The objective of this paper is to compare the effects two types celebrities (Instagram celebrity vs. traditional celebrity) on users' willingness look for product information (promoted products). User “likes” (user's intention give “like” promoted brand post) and Instagram involvement are examined as applied moderators in proposed theoretical model research. Design/methodology/approach ...

On October 2021, Kim Seon Ho was on peak of his career when faced a wave backlash after an anonymous post circulated in online communities saying that unnamed actor “manipulated her into getting abortion under false pretenses” and being cancelled. Researchers will use case study from South Korea who has been subjected to cancel culture order examine the complexity this social phenomenon. This r...

Italian opera was simultaneously popular and unfashionable in interwar Britain. It with audiences from across the class spectrum. intellectuals who were anxious about its modularity, collaborative model of production, interactions culture celebrity. This article considers reception opera, performers Britain, ways which this intersected broader discussions taste formation national identity so-ca...

Since the beginning of her career in 1980s, Seda Sayan has become one biggest popular culture icons Turkey, sustaining a multifaceted entertainment that includes singing, acting, and, most influentially, television. Sayan’s trajectory from wedding singer to ‘Sultan Mornings’ illustrates how Turkish celebrity industry works, and evolution persona as talk show host tracks development genre format...

over the past decades, yoga has become part of the Zeitgeist of affluent western societies, drawing housewives and hipsters, new agers and the old-aged, and body culture and corporate culture into a multibillion-dollar synergy. Like every indian cultural artifact that it has embraced, the West views indian yoga as an ancient, unchanging tradition, based on revelations received by the Vedic sage...