The age of acquisition (AoA) effect, a processing advantage for items learnt earlier in life, affects naming and making familiarity decisions about famous people. However, its influence on semantic processing tasks involving celebrity stimuli is equivocal. In a category verification task designed to explore this issue further, mature adults were shown an area of fame, followed by a famous perso...

Online videos are becoming popular these days. Personalized search has been recognized as effective solution for user accessing desired information when facing a daunting volume of videos. Personalized query understanding serves as one of the most challenges in personalized search, which indicates that unique query has distributed meanings and produce different semantics for different users. Ta...

Social media, such as YouTube, is increasingly a site of collective remembering where personal tributes to celebrity figures become sites of public mourning. YouTube, especially, is rife with celebrity commemorations. Examining fans’ online mourning practices on YouTube, this article examines video tributes dedicated to the late Steve Jobs, with a focus on collective remembering and collective ...

OBJECTIVE Celebrity cancer diagnoses generate considerable media coverage of and increase interest in cancer screening, but do they also promote primary cancer prevention? METHODS Daily trends for smoking cessation-related media (information-availability) and Google queries (information-seeking) around Brazilian President and smoker Lula da Silva's laryngeal cancer diagnosis announcements wer...

The practice of celebrities being used for rendering services other than performing their actual job as either an actor or an athlete, such as endorsements has proliferated over time. Despite the cost and the risks involved with this technique of advertising, it is been used quite extensively in the present era. The instrument of celebrity endorsement has nowadays become a pervasive element in ...

BACKGROUND Celebrities are highly influential people whose actions and decisions are watched and often emulated by wide audiences. Many celebrities have used their prominent social standing to offer medical advice or endorse health products, a trend that is expected to increase. However, the extent of the impact that celebrities have in shaping the public's health-related knowledge, attitudes, ...

Yliopistopaino Helsinki 2002 " When the press or the radio announces the sudden death of a celebrity from heart disease, a multitude of middle-aged persons runs out to make an electrocardiogram the next morning "

Before 1980, most people experiencing common nervous problems and who sought medical help complained of anxiety and were treated for anxiety. Similar experiences increasingly led to complaints of or treatment for panic attacks in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and to complaints of or treatment for mood disorders by the mid-1990s. Today, such patients seem once again increasingly likely to comp...

This article examines the proliferation of alt. health influencers during COVID-19 pandemic. I analyse self-presentation strategies used by four to achieve visibility and status on Instagram over a 12-month period from 11 March 2020, when pandemic was declared World Health Organisation. My analysis reveals ways in which these appeal utopian discourses early web culture underlying principles wel...

December 2011 JOURNAL OF ADVERTISING RESEARCH 6 INTRODUCTION The growing popularity of using sports and entertainment celebrities in brand advertising is evident in the marketplace. In both the United States and China, celebrity endorsement is a key executional strategy that continues to grow in popularity (Chan, Hung, Tse, and Tse, 2008). In the United States, one of four advertisements uses c...