Chapter 1. Is celebrity culture harmful? Celebrity culture is natural and can be beneficial / David Cox Too many celebrities, not enough heroes / Landon Y. Jones Celebrity culture is not that terrible / Courtney Enlow Celebrities work to prevent sexual assault / Lesley Clark and Renee Schoof Why Miley Cyrus matters / Mona Charen Celebrities promote unhealthy eating and obesity / Tara Haelle. Chapter 2. Is celebrity activism beneficial? Celebrities can help bring attention to worthy causes / Alain de Botton Celebrities make worthy causes absurd / Douglas Valentine The thirty most generous celebrities / Anderson Antunes Celebrity philanthropy may be misguided and misleading / Kat Stoeffel The flip side to Bill Gates' charity billions / Andrew Bowman. Chapter 3. How does celebrity culture affect particular groups? Coming out: when love dares speak, and nobody listens / Jeremy W. Peters Celebrities coming out helps gay rights / Trish Bendix Why we need to ask celebrities whether they're feminists / Amanda Duberman Asking female celebrities if they are feminists is useless / Meghan Murphy Children provide the excuse for moral panic around celebrity culture / Karina Wilson. Chapter 4. Is celebrity culture changing? Celebrity culture can become more accessible and subversive / Amber L. Davisson The culture of celebrity is far from dead it's just growing up / Tim Lott Celebrity culture still rests on traditional myths about fame / Su Holmes Celebrity culture is based on evolution / Stephanie Pappas Social media does not necessarily create authentic connections with celebrities / Alice Marwick an danah boyd
