UN celebrity ‘It’ girls as public relations-ised humanitarianism

@article{Hopkins2018UNC,  title={UN celebrity ‘It’ girls as public relations-ised humanitarianism},  author={Susan Hopkins},  journal={International Communication Gazette},  year={2018},  volume={80},  pages={273 - 292},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:149182313}}
  • S. Hopkins
  • Published1 April 2018
  • Sociology
  • International Communication Gazette
This article combines framing analysis and critical textual analysis in a qualitative investigation of the ways in which popular culture texts, in particular articles in Australian women's magazines, frame transnational celebrity activism. Using three recent case studies of commercial representations of popular female celebrities – Nicole Kidman in Marie Claire (Australia), Angelina Jolie in Vogue (Australia) and Emma Watson in Cleo (Australia) – this study dissects framing devices to reveal… 

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