Publications

ARTICLES

“Gossip Blogs and ‘Baby Bumps’: The New Visual Spectacle of Female Celebrity in Gossip Media,” forthcoming (2011) in Karen Ross (ed), Gender, Sexuality/ies and the Media: Communicating Identity in a Post-Ironic Age. Blackwell Publishing

“Reality Television and the Hypertrophic Celebrity in Victoria Beckham: Coming to America,” Celebrity Studies Vol. 1, No. 3 (Nov 2010), 319-333

“Twitter and the Branding of the Celebrity Self,” In Media Res, October 28, 2010

“‘Can You Handle My Truth?’: Authenticity and the Celebrity Star Image,” The Journal of Popular Culture Vol. 42, No. 5 (2009), 890-907

MY DISSERTATION

My dissertation, “Gossip Talk and Online Community: Celebrity Gossip Blogs and Their Audiences,” is available for download. You can read an abstract and download the full text here.