Volunteers who were baseball fans themselves tended to pick an obscure player if they thought they were emailing an expert. A statistical analysis, however, suggested that internet conversations, particularly on message boards not devoted to baseball, drove media coverage and All-Star game votes.
The best players, of course, were the most likely to garner All-Star votes. Prominent people stay popular for longer than they ought to because they serve as conversational fodder, which in turn drives more media coverage. What is less clear is how people, ideas and practices become prominent in the first place, Schaller says.
In baseball, performance is likely to provide the initial inertia to stardom. But other aspects of culture come into prominence because of a quality that Schaller calls communicability. By Ewen Callaway Paris Hilton is world famous, but what does she do?
He or she divides into two identities by contriving a celebrity entity, a new self-presentation in the 'public sphere. The famous person feels the need to always 'be on. You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser and improve your visit to our site. This gives them the feeling of being close to their idols, and take part in their fame and glory. Everyone loves gossip, and when it comes to celebrities, the gossip seems more interesting and valuable. People like to hear, read or watch what other people are doing and saying, even if this is not important at all.
This is actually, one of the reasons, why reality shows are so popular. We love to watch pretty people, who wear pretty clothes. We love to watch people doing things or going to places we cannot afford.
This takes our minds away from our problems, and gives us a taste of glamor and fame. Curiosity plays a major part here. Subconsciously, we want to be like them. We want to learn what they do, what they eat and where they go, so we can do, at least, a few of the things they do.
This makes us feel more important and close to them. When certain people appear often on the screen of our TV or on our smartphones, we feel an affinity with them. They become like close friends. We feel as if they visit us every day and are part of our lives. We begin to like them, and then, to adore and admire them.
You need to remember that celebrities are ordinary people, like you and me. They eat, drink, sleep, think and feel like everyone else. The only difference between you and them is that they appear on the media. You might be as rich, smart or successful as they are, and maybe even more. The difference is that they are famous and you are not. You see glamor and you see fascination in their lives, but does it really exist in their everyday life?
Most have the same feelings, thoughts and desires as you. They probably have their problems and worries, and sometimes, their real life might not seem as glamorous as we see on TV.
Celebrities are just people, like everyone else. The media and the public relations persons create the glamor and provide the fascination, and we increase and multiply them in our minds, by our imagination, dreams and expectations. Before closing this article, I would like to point out that we do not admire and idolize every celebrity.
Some of them we do not like and do not want to hear about. There are also people, who do not have a strong need to idolize and learn about celebrities.
They have no need for that. As said at the beginning of this post, in the olden days, people worshiped gods and their statues, and now they admire famous people. Celebrities have become the gods of the modern age. Often, they are not admired for what they did in the world or if they helped humanity in any way. What counts is how many times the media and pressed mentioned them, and how many likes they have in their social media accounts.
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