Audience Interactions in Contemporary Celebrity Culture: Approaches from across Disciplines explores current understandings of celebrity-audience relationships in the context of digitalization and the ongoing celebritization of all aspects of culture and society. Focusing on the themes of celebrity and health, celebrity and identity, and celebrity and scandal, this volume presents chapters authored by experts from across the globe that deal with celebrity-audience relationships in...

Wanneer je als ambitieuze professional zelf je loopbaan in handen wilt nemen, zijn dit vragen die regelmatig door je hoofd spoken. Ook bij Simone Driessen en Niek Karsmakers twee young potentials aan de start van hun carrière sloeg de twijfel soms genadeloos toe. `Leiding nemen over je eigen toekomst? Bewuste carrièrekeuzes maken? Hoe doe je dat? No Guts, No Story is het resultaat van hun uitgebreide onderzoek. Ze interviewden 30 CEOs en vroegen hen hoe zij de juiste keuzes maken, verantwo...

Between 2007 and 2011, the Belgian School at Athens undertook excavations on the Kefali or Buff o hill, east of the village of Sissi, on the north coast of Crete, only a few kilometres east of Malia. The project has revealed the remains of a settlement and cemetery, used during different phases of the Bronze Age (2500-1200 B.C.). This volume details the results of the 2011 campaign, the last in our first 5-year programme. The work in the different zones is described and reports on Late Min...

From writing fan fiction to campaigning for better media representation, fandom and participatory culture have long been seen as tools to resist dominant narratives and fight for a better future. But participatory culture is not always socially and politically progressive; rather, as Participatory Culture Wars demonstrates, it can be politically regressive and socially reactive. Communities coalesce around the exclusionary and the misinformed.Fans, fandoms, and fan practice...

Eine mutige Frau in einer neuen Welt Amsterdam, frühes 17. Jahrhundert: Aus finanzieller Not wird die junge Eva mit dem 20 Jahre älteren, wohlhabenden Generalgouverneur der Vereinigten Ostindischen Compagnie, Jan Pieterszoon Coen, verheiratet. Gegen ihren Willen verlässt sie ihre Heimat und reist nach Südostasien. Nach einer achtmonatigen Überfahrt erreicht sie Batavia, wo sie in eine faszinierende, fremde Welt eintaucht und neue Bekanntschaften schließt. Während sie sich für benachteiligt...