Celebrities And Social Media Essay

Social Media has been a platform for celebrities to share their personal life online. They perform everyday acts like gym sessions, going to a club, or a famous Hollywood premiere. Celebrities share their every move through social media applications like YouTube, Snap, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Vine. Through these technological lenses, audiences feel connected to celebrities in such a way that they feel like they know everything about the stars that they admire. Celebrities create this illusion and get paid for their publicity. Most of them get paid to advertise brands like clothing lines, supplements, hair products and weight loss pills. This does not only increase their stardom but it also makes people feel like they are part of the …show more content…
When celebrities altered their images to look curvier, skinner more “desirable” can this be a Manipulation of Public? (Lorenzo, pg.1) Manipulation of Public is the concept in which that relates techniques in which partisans create an image or argument that favors their particular interests (Wikipedia). Such tactics may include the use of logical fallacies and propaganda techniques and often involve the suppression of information or points of view by crowding them out, by inducing other people or groups of people to stop listening to certain arguments, or by simply diverting attention elsewhere (Wikipedia). In my opinion, it is. Celebrities have thousands of fans, and people who look up to them. Creating false illusions of images that are not in their natural state is manipulation. But in comparison to the class example, it may not be. In class, we looked at images that were dramatized so that it can appear more interesting. Like the OJ picture different newspaper articles used the same image but some made him look more “fearful and dangerous” by adding darker colors on the image. Our eyes are equipped to look at things