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- Title
Negotiating Normalcy in Celebrity Health Behavior: A Focus Group Analysis.
- Authors
Hinnant, Amanda; Hendrickson, Elizabeth Meyers
- Abstract
This study explores how celebrity-magazine consumers discuss cognitive, affective, and behavioral responses to celebrity health in a focus group setting. This analysis combines symbolic convergence theory and play theory with parasocial relationship constructs to examine how celebrity health news functions in society. Our research indicates that parasocial interaction with celebrity culture invites role-playing and various emotional reactions to celebrity personae. Findings illustrate how individuals patrol the boundaries of acceptable health behavior by evaluating a celebrity as "normal" or norm-violating. Overall, this research provides an understanding of how individuals adjudicate celebrity health behavior and relate it to their own lives.
- Subjects
CELEBRITIES; GROUP psychoanalysis; PERIODICALS &; society; MEDICAL communication; SYMBOLIC convergence theory (Communication); MASS media &; society; ATTITUDE (Psychology); HEALTH
- Publication
Journal of Magazine & New Media Research, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 2, p1
- ISSN
1525-6715
- Publication type
Article