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Andrea McDonnell
Andrea McDonnell is associate professor of Communication and Media Studies in the department of English at Emmanuel College. Her work emphasizes the intersection of media technologies, audiences, and everyday life. She is the author of Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines (Polity Press, 2014) and her new book, Celebrity: A History of Fame, co-authored with Susan Douglas (University of Michigan), was published by NYU Press in 2019. She tweets at @doctordreuh.
Mark Wheeler
Mark Wheeler is professor of Political Communications in the department of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University. He has authored several books including Celebrity Politics: Image and Identity in Contemporary Political Communications (Polity Press, 2013) and Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, with Petros Iosifidis). He has published a range of articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in edited books. He is a Visiting Fellow at the Media and Communications Department at the London School of Economics.