Sammelrezension: Populärkulturen und Künste

Jonas Nesselhauf, Markus Schleich (Hg.): Banal, trivial,phänomenal: Spielarten des TrashDarmstadt: Büchner 2017, 236 S., ISBN 9783941310872, EUR 29,90 Davide Giuriato, Eckhard Schumacher (Hg.): Drastik: Ästhetik –Genealogien – GegenwartskulturPaderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2016, 261 S., ISBN 9783770561223,EUR 39,9

Sammelrezension: Der Medienbegriff in der Medientheorie und -philosophie

Stefan Münker, Alexander Roesler (Hg.): Was ist ein Medium? Nele Heinevetter, Nadine Sanchez: Was mit Medien… Theorie in 15 Sachgeschichten<br /

Stars, Anti-Stars, Anti-Star-Stars

The phenomenon of stars and celebrities in media cultures – and especially in popular music cultures – seems to be omnipresent. At the same time, there is an astounding lack of analysis and research on these media personalities and personas, and international celebrity studies only recently a developing new field. Similarly, these kinds of observations are still very rare especially in German sociology as well as communication, media, culture and popular music studies. In this article, I therefore want to concentrate on the foundations of studying stars and celebrities within the attention economies by undertaking a theoretical transmedia-cultural framing of media personas and suggesting a typology. This ensuing typology of stars, anti-stars, and anti-star stars – especially within popular music cultures – demonstrates how stars and celebrities and their quantities and qualities of success and peer-group specific values coming form programs of (media and music) culture can serve as persona-seismographs of socio-cultural change between tradition and innovation