Dear Crit-Geog,
As some of you know or will probably critique, I have been doing a bit
of work on celebrity culture and politics for a while now by myself and
with Max Boykoff and others. To this end, Christine Barnes (doing her
PhD with me at KCL) and I have put together an 'audience' survey of a
kind about celebrity politics and engagement broadly, with specific
questions about celebrity chefs and celebrity charity. We are hoping
that not only will you fill the survey in, but that you will pass this
to your students and within your networks so that we can get
approximately 1000 respondents. We have about 350 at the moment and
really want to push to finish this up, so if could kindly send this to
your students in your department, we would really appreciate it. There
is nothing else with information of this kind and we are excited to get
the data back! It is relatively UK focused by not exclusively so those
who don't live on the 'island' can still participate.
Information on the study and its link is below. Many thanks in advance
for your efforts to help us out here.
And anyone who wants to critique or make fun of research on celebrity
culture, send it all to me directly!
Cheers,
Mike and Christine
Do you care what celebrities say? Do they influence your behaviour or
opinions in any way? I am a Phd student at King's College London writing
a research project on the power of celebrity to influence and govern
public behaviour around particular issues. We are looking for volunteers
to participate in a survey about celebrity activism and its influence on
your understanding around particular issues. This research will help
develop an understanding of the power celebrities may hold to govern the
way we understand and behave around particular issues such as animal
welfare or international development.
The survey takes around 20mins to complete, it doesn't have to be
completed in one go, and there are prizes to be won from iPod Touch to
Amazon vouchers. If you could spare any time to fill in a survey I would
really appreciate it and please feel free to pass it on to anyone you
know who would be able to fill it in!
You can find the survey here....
http://celebritysurvey.co.uk
The questionnaire explores your knowledge, understanding and
relationship to the growing importance of celebrity activists in the UK.
It is divided into 3 sections: 1) general questions about your awareness
and engagement with celebrity culture and activists, 2) questions about
celebrity chefs and food politics, and 3) questions about celebrity
charity ambassadors and care. The survey is made up mainly of multiple
choice questions, with some short answer questions, asking you to think
about your awareness and opinion around celebrity today. If you love
them, hate them, or have no idea who most of them are, we want to hear
from you and what you think!
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