Arash Beidollahkhani; Yaser Kahrazeh
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In the age of mediatization of politics , the entertainment industry can easily produce content and hero for political environments. The current president of the United States, Donald Trump more than any electoral campaign owes media, movies, television shows, entertainment programs, and etc. This was ...
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In the age of mediatization of politics , the entertainment industry can easily produce content and hero for political environments. The current president of the United States, Donald Trump more than any electoral campaign owes media, movies, television shows, entertainment programs, and etc. This was a major reason of the success of Trump in the US presidential election. Therefore today, Tramp is mentioned as a celebrity politician or political superstar. The main focus of the present research is the conceptualization of celebrity politics and celebrities politicians by using the Donald Trump phenomenon. This paper examines the typology of the celebrity politics and celebrities politician by analyzing of coming of Tramp at the White House through analytical-descriptive methodology. The main question of this paper is Can Donald Trump be considered as a celebrity politician, regarding his electoral and political performance? The paper responds positively to this question and emphasizes that phenomenon of Donald Trump is a form of celebrity politician who, using media leverage, performance style and audience reception in a post-democratic environment for access presidential position and he has already managed to achieve the presidency of the world's most powerful country.
azam ravadrad; Golnar Gishnizjani
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The purpose of this study was to identify a variety of body types among Iranian Instagram users. Two main research questions guided the study as I sought to explore 1) What is the dominant pattern of body re-presentation among Iranian Instagram users? 2) What is the strategies, technics and purpose of ...
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The purpose of this study was to identify a variety of body types among Iranian Instagram users. Two main research questions guided the study as I sought to explore 1) What is the dominant pattern of body re-presentation among Iranian Instagram users? 2) What is the strategies, technics and purpose of Iranian Instagram users for re-presentation of body? In order to respond these questions I used combination of dramaturgical approach of Goffman and Butler ideas about gender. I used virtual ethnography and Sade-beck module as a method of the study. I was trying to collect data through deeply semi structured interviews with 26 users, participant observation and analysis of virtual content. Thick description and interpretive analysis were used for analyzing data. Based on obtained data mediated body on Instagram divided to three main types: Social, perfomative and aesthetic body. Each of these types is explained to be divided into smaller categories.
