Celebrities

Meghan Markle

The shift in the celebrity image of Meghan Markle

Paper
Tessa Willemsen
15/12/2021
15 minutes to read

An analysis of Meghan Markle and the shift in her image from being part of the royal family to deciding to take a step back. 

Eugenia Cooney: Youtube's representative of disordered eating

Paper
Lara Hoffmann
08/12/2021
13 minutes to read

(Trigger warning: ED and anoxeria). Eugenia Cooney is a YouTuber whose content is highly associated with anorexia and eating disorders. How do Foucault's concepts of power and the dangerous individual apply to a 21st-century social media figure?

Taylor Swift accepting Woman of the Decade award

Taylor Swift's “Fearless”: A feminist analysis

Article
Leonie Milder
20/01/2023
11 minutes to read

The life of the singer and songwriter, Taylor Swift, has been in the public eye for certain problematic issues over a decade. In this article, her personality and art are examined through the concepts of (cyber)sexism, stereotypes, and feminism.

Vinyl posts on Instagram

The fandom of vinyl collecting on Instagram

Paper
Simone Sprangers
25/10/2021
26 minutes to read

There is a whole community of vinyl collectors on Instagram. These vinyl collectors have very specific fan practices. This article answers the following question: What can the vinyl community on Instagram tell us about fandom? 

the crown season 1 cast

The Crown: is it the truth or is it fiction?

Article
Jessaline Tanjung
26/06/2021
13 minutes to read

To what extent is Netflix series 'The Crown' truth or fiction? This article discusses the ways filmmakers attempt to produce motion pictures that resemble the truth and analyses how they achieve it.

Celebrities' Flex Culture - Who Are You Flexing On?

Article
Savina Karneva
24/05/2021
13 minutes to read

Celebrities online post content that can be seen as flexing which can be defined as bragging or showing off by displaying expensive commodities. This paper investigates what flex culture exactly is and delves deeper into the consequences of flexing

Foucault’s vision on the morphing bodies of influencers

Article
Ellefleur Slangen
19/05/2021
9 minutes to read

Body morphing has become the norm even for those influencers who stand for body positivity. How can Foucault assist us in interpreting this phenomenon? 

Aziz Ansari: Modern Public Intellectual?

Paper
Chi-chieh Huang
26/03/2021
32 minutes to read

This article seeks to examine the public persona of Aziz Ansari through the model of the public intellectual.