Turning to the empirical audience: the desired but denied object of celebrity studies?

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Notes

1. See the study’s website for details of the study aims and methods: http://www.celebyouth.org/about/

2. For further discussion of scholars’ personal investments in the celebrities and media forms we study, see Holmes et al. (2015).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council [grant number ES/J022942/1].

Notes on contributors

Heather Mendick

Heather Mendick works as a reader in education at Brunel University. Her interdisciplinary research draws across sociology, education, media and cultural studies. She is the author of Masculinities in Mathematics and co-author of Urban Youth and Schooling. She previously taught mathematics and is currently studying for an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature.

Kim Allen

Kim Allen is a research fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Kim is an interdisciplinary feminist researcher. Her work focuses broadly on the sociology of youth transitions; young people’s cultural practices; representations of class and gender in popular culture; and the mediation of social inequalities.

Laura Harvey

Laura Harvey is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Surrey. Her work takes an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on sociology, gender studies, social psychology and cultural studies. Her interests include sexualities, everyday intimacies and inequalities, research with young people, the mediation of sexual knowledge, feminist methodologies and discourse analysis.