Out today! David Giles new #textbook looks at the changes #celebrity has undergone in the first two decades of the new century. #Read an excerpt here bit.ly/2oTzyei (Inspection copies available for course leaders) bit.ly/2N57Rh6

ICYMI: this week we published a brand new #textbook by David Giles on Twenty-First Century #Celebrity. Explore the #TOC and sample content here bit.ly/2oTzyei and order your #InspectionCopy today bit.ly/2N57Rh6

Thanks Celia for some pictorial evidence that I was actually doing some work while out of the office!!!

And here’s me doing some more work...or maybe trying to avoid answering the next difficult question!

Many thanks Bethany - doing a great job organising a very successful inaugural conference!!!

Our latest issue, Music and Persona, is now out. It is an incredible series of articles that identify how the music world constructs public presentations of the self. Thank you to the co-editors Charles Fairchild and @dmarshallmchttps://ojs.deakin.edu.au/index.php/ps/index

Call for papers for the first EQuiP conference 18-20 June 2020. Please RT widely. equip2020.gr/submission

Very pleased to finally have my first piece of academic work published! 🎉 Mine and @RuthDeller's article on mainstream media representations of YouTube celebs is now available online through European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) here if you fancy a read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Here's the introduction to our forthcoming European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) special issue (on Celebrity status, fields and value) written with David Giles Celebrity status and the attribution of value journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

I thoroughly enjoyed writing this article about Bob Dylan for a forthcoming European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) special issue: Celebrity capital, field-specific aesthetic criteria and the status of cultural objects: The case of Masked and Anonymous - Simon Stewart, journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Calling all #celebrity scholars! The 5th Annual Celebrity Studies conference will be held 18-20 June 2020 at University of Winchester, UK. Check out the CFP and apply by 1 Oct 2019. celebritystudiesconference.com/call-for-paper…

Calling all scholars of #celebrity #fame #stardom #renown #persona Please share widely and send us your proposals by 1st October. Looking forward to hosting you for TRANSFORMATIONS IN CELEBRITY CULTURE: The Fifth International Celebrity Studies Conference at University of Winchester in June!

EXTENDED DEADLINE: Due to a number of requests, the deadline for abstract submission to #celebritystudies2020 is extended until Oct 7 2019! There is still time to get your abstracts in: celebritystudiesconference.com/call-for-paper…

Those lovely people at Porridge have just published one of my stories!

Late 9th century wall painting of an angel which was found during excavations at New Minster in Winchester; possibly part of the monastic buildings founded by King Alfred. Now on display at Winchester Cathedral. 📸 My own. #WallpaintingWednesday #WinchesterCathedral

Over at instagram I’m posting classic UK pop journalism from the golden era…today, Nick Kent on the Slits instagram.com/share/_wtEZlLVu

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St Catherine's Hill, Winchester, rising high above the Itchen Valley floodplain. On the summit of then iron age hillfort is a beech clump and nearby buried remains of a Norman chapel.

More @shamelesspopnostalgia on Instagram - today a classic David Byrne interview from Blitz magazine in 1988 instagram.com/share/BBDH3Mp4…