Celebrities and Gossip Have you seen the pictures of Madonna and her baby yet? Have you ever surfed the web and stumbled onto a site about celebrities? Probably so. There are thousands of sites on the web about celebrities; their official web sites, pictorials and biographical information. You can’t even go into a supermarket without being bombarded by tabloids.You can’t listen to the radio in the car. TV shows and whole networks rely on entertainment and celebrities in the news. VH1, MTV and
Friendly Gossip is an Oxymoron "Can you keep a secret?" Becky asked me in a hushed tone. We were in my living room. Last I checked, my walls don't have ears. I had no idea why she was speaking so quietly. "Why? What is it?" I was wise to this type of chit-chat. She wanted to tell me a piece of gossip that she wasn't supposed to reveal. Her betrayal was quickly becoming my problem. Before I could respond negatively, she burst out, "Jennifer is pregnant!. She just found out and told me,
various cultural groups is often relayed through appropriate media, and it’s interesting to note that blogs are currently being utilized as the best medium for celebrity gossip. Celebrity blogs are usually thronged with readers, who would like to know more about their favorite superstars. The entries of different celebrity gossip blogs are often accompanied by paparazzi photos that are usually meant to trigger a stream of comments based on the readers’ observations, enthusiasm and criticisms. Celebrity
Introduction Do you think that only females are famous for gossiping? The answer is no, both genders gossip; the only difference is women gossip it more than men. Gossiping is defined as a casual conversation about other people that involves details that are not always technically true. There are many types of gossiping, but the two that will be covered are cross-cultural gossiping and behavioral gossiping; gossiping has many advantages and disadvantages, and it can impact humans and societies in
The Eye of Gossip Gossip takes up to sixty-five percent of our time speaking in our day to day conversations. Ranging from schools to office workplaces and even our own homes. Gossip is an extremely prevalent form of communication that is highly common in our social lives. It is almost certain that deep into our past, a group of caveman stood around a kill, talking about someone that was not holding up his end of the huntings and gatherings. Flash forward 15,000 years later, and it is not so surprising
Past and Present Views on Gossip Culture is constantly changing: the prevailing beliefs and trends of one period can vary substantially from those of another. A significant consequence of this cultural flux is gradual evolution in the meanings of some words. Since language is naturally tied to culture, it is not surprising that these changes occur. Words have meaning only in the context of the current social climate; therefore their definitions change synchronously with cultural progression
interest in other activities like reading or the arts, people take interest in celebrity gossip. Society takes an interest in celebrity gossip because it is entertainment for them or it makes them feel better about themselves. Either way, people are reading more on celebrity gossip rather than picking up a good book and reading that instead. Celebrity gossip is not bad since, in a way, it is a form of news, but with gossip websites such as TMZ.com and Perezhilton.com, these websites have no boundaries as
The gossip industry has become popular in the last few decades. Our society enjoys knowing about the lives of celebrities. We obsess over celebrities on gossip websites, and even obsess to the extent of stalking these celebrities. This industry has impacted our culture immensely. It has tainted our culture in several ways from creating bad role models for our children to making stalking an everyday affair; either way, the media has changed our society greatly. The gossip industry has brought new
Gossip Girl is a television show that follows the lives of five teens living in New York City. Throughout the show, there is a narrator who is simply known as Gossip Girl that follows the teens around the city and knows all of their secrets. Their secrets, which are revealed on Gossip Girl’s website, deal with many things ranging from sexuality to family life. Sexuality is a major element on the show. The five teens are constantly changing who they date in the same manner in which they change
In Gossip Girls, Serena and Blair fits perfectly in stereotype roles, but compare to them Vanessa and Jenny is opposite of those two. They have different characteristics that led to having stertypical characteristics. Why do Serena and Blair fits perfectly into stereotypes? It is because they are introduced as stertypical wealthy girls. If people think of wealthy girls, they think of pretty, wealthy, powerful, living off parents, and rich white girls. So, why does those two characters in the show
with her old clique, who don't seem to want her around. It may be time for Serena make new friends, but with whom? Gossip Girl reports on Serena's struggle with the group and more -- their dates, their parties, their crushes, and their secrets -- and she tells it all with such knowledge that you, too, will wonder as you close this page-turner, "Who is she?" (Michele D. Thomas) In Gossip Girl, when the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen returns to private school after mysteriously getting kicked out of
the movie industries. One of the most loved categories of TV show is teen drama. There might be a lot of popular teen drama television shows but for different reasons I pick “Gossip Girls” as the best TV show that I have watched. This particular TV show have a lot of fans around the world and a lot of people follow the gossip girls page on Instagram and twitter. The main reasons why I chose this show as the best one is because the characters are interesting and so are the situations they get into
Gossip Girl is a Television show that illustrates the lives of the higher class striving in the Upper East side of Manhattan. The characters live a classy life anyone would dream to have, so they may think. This ideal life is centered around the importance of social class and wealth that it drives the characters to turn against each other. It brings light to the fact that the poor are ignored and only the issues of the elite are welcomed. Although many people enjoy Gossip Girl, it is centered around
Gossip Girl, a television show based on Cecily von Ziegesars’ book series, follows the lives of a group of high society, privileged teenagers from the Upper East Side of Manhattan. In the series, the character Gossip Girl, is a mysterious, all-knowing blogger with a secret identity who reveals everyone’s darkest and most scandalous secrets (TV Guide). Through the use of her website and constant text message updates, all of Manhattan’s elite are subject to exposure via Gossip Girl. Regardless of how
“Studies Find That Gossip Isn’t Just Loose Talk” Malicious gossip has been known to hurt relationships, damage reputations, and cause other social harms. But is all gossip destructive? In the article “Studies Find That Gossip Isn’t Just Loose Talk”, Alina Tugend argues that certain gossip can have important social functions. She notes that certain gossip can provide us with information about people who might mistreat us. Tugend adds that people have an overwhelming urge to gossip about people who
“Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite.” I speak from personal experience when I say these opening words, proclaimed at the beginning of every Gossip Girl episode, engrain themselves in the minds of teenage female viewers. As each episode progresses, these words introduce reoccurring concepts of gossip, drama and fashion, while featuring strong female protagonists depicted as seemingly independent, sexually empowered consumers. Yet these characters
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama set in New York Upper East Side and tells the story of privileged upper class young adults, as they battle sex, drugs, alcohol, relationships and betrayal. Narrated by an infamous incognito, who blogs the lives and drama of Manhattans elite. The series was wrote in a series of novels by Cecily von Ziegesar and produced by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage. The show begins with the sentence "Gossip Girl here, your one and only source into the scandalous lives
Celebrity gossip is becoming something everyone is staying to know about from such celebrities as Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Ben Cousins, Miley Cyrus etc. These celebrities are being to take over news articles, internet articles and now also in magazine articles. This has pushed journalism articles to the back of the magazines and newspaper articles and has made them less important and has made these articles much smaller which is showing less importance. This can be seen in (____).Have we become
through discussion of those stories, members of small groups develop a common bond that shapes their social reality. An example of this bond is prominent in the CW’s hit show, Gossip Girl, which focuses on the world of high society elite at a private high school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. Circumstances in Gossip Girl show how concepts in symbolic convergence describe the formation of group bonds and their effect on the group’s and individual group member’s interaction with the outside
Learn From Gossip Girl- Don’t Dismiss Five characters. Promiscuity. Drugs. Sex. Reckless decisions and choices. Six Seasons. This is what viewers perceive the show Gossip Girl as, but underneath this layer lies a message that people can identify with. Gossip Girl brings to life the world that Cecily Von Ziegesar created - the world of glitz and glamour becomes a newfound reality. The countless lavish parties, Debutante Balls, endless rumors and teenage romances escape the pages of the books that