Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame

In Just Like Us: Digital Debates on Feminism and Fame, Caitlin E. Lawson examines the rise of celebrity feminism, its intersections with digital culture, and its complicated relationships with race, sexuality, capitalism, and misogyny. Through in-depth analyses of debates across social media and news platforms, Lawson maps the processes by which celebrity culture, digital platforms, and feminism transform one another. As she analyzes celebrity-centered stories ranging from "The Fappening" and the digital attack on actress Leslie Jones to stars' activism in response to #MeToo, Lawson demonstrates how celebrity culture functions as a hypervisible space in which networked publics confront white feminism, assert the value of productive anger in feminist politics, and seek remedies for women's vulnerabilities in digital spaces and beyond. Just Like Us asserts that, together, celebrity culture and digital platforms form a crucial discursive arena where postfeminist logics are unsettled, opening up more public, collective modes of holding individuals and groups accountable for their actions.


Author: Caitlin E. Lawson
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 12/09/2022
Pages: 206
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.55d
ISBN13: 9781978830912
ISBN10: 1978830912
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Popular Culture
- Computers | Social Aspects
- Social Science | Women's Studies

About the Author
CAITLIN E. LAWSON is an assistant professor of communication and media studies at Emmanuel College, Boston.