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    News, celebrity, and vortextuality: a study of the media coverage of the Michael Jackson verdict.

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    Authors
    Whannel, Garry
    Issue Date
    2010-03
    Subjects
    Michael Jackson
    journalism
    celebrity
    media
    
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    Abstract
    This paper examines the transformation of news as a cultural commodity and a social process by the expansion in the range, volume, and circulation speed of media production. It introduces the concept of vortextuality and illustrates the vortextual effect with reference to the coverage of the verdict announcement in the trial of Michael Jackson. The nature of “news” has been transformed by new media technology, the erosion of the division between public and private, and the growth of a celebrity culture. during the last two decades the volume of information in circulation, and the speed of circulation and feedback of information have increased dramatically. These tendencies have given rise to an effect I term vortextuality, whereby major news stories have the power to dominate the news media to such an extent that all attention appears, temporarily, to be directed towards them. Editorials, cartoons, columns, features, phone-ins are all focused on the same issue. As with vortex-based natural phenomena, however, the vortextuality effect is unpredictable and short-lived. This paper illustrates some of the processes of vortextuality at work in the media coverage around the world of the announcement of the verdict in the Michael Jackson trial.
    Citation
    Whannel, G. (2010) 'News, celebrity, and vortextuality: a study of the media coverage of the Michael Jackson verdict' Cultural Politics 6 (1): 65-84
    Publisher
    Bloomsbury publishers
    Journal
    Cultural Politics
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10547/230091
    DOI
    10.2752/175174310X12549254318782
    Additional Links
    http://culturalpolitics.dukejournals.org/content/6/1/65.short
    Type
    Article
    Language
    en
    ISSN
    1743-2197
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.2752/175174310X12549254318782
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