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- The two readings assigned each week have a range of related ideas that may complement or contest each other. Your group needs to identify, define select concepts and then highlight and illustrate the relationships and tensions. - 40-45 minutes in length
 * __Project__**

- If you guys can post here / Send me your information this weekend I'll put together the powerpoint presentation - Rebecca - Each part should be about 5 minutes in length - Please include at least 1 discussion question and 1 example (a video or something)

__**Presentation Proposal**__

//**Focus Topic:** How gossip has altered our ideas of knowledge//

//- Gossip - **Tas**// // o Definition of Gossip// // o History of gossip// // o What is gossip (mini quiz)// //- Gossip changed our knowledge of ourselves - **Rebecca**// // o Bullying, suicide// // o People have become so dependent on gossip that it has changed their way of thinking// //- Gossip changes academic knowledge// // o We don’t look for the source of information anymore// // o Were okay with being told information// //- Gossip affects politics/economy - **Justin**// // o We look towards gossip to decide who is the best candidate to run our country// // o Gossip brought up in elections/debates?// // o Gossip effects the stock market/Y2K// //- Gossip changes the knowledge of people we look up to - **Nidhi**// // o Celebrities – gossip can completely change our ideas of a person just from what we read in a magazine or tabloid// // o Tiger Woods, for example.// //- Celebrities use of Gossip **- Andrew**// // o Gossip is utilized as a commodity to benefit a person// // § “Any press is good press”//

**Gossip and Celebrities**

· Gossip on the Internet is being reshaped in ways that heighten its negative effects and make its sting more painful and permanent. · Bad gossips about celebrities can ruin a reputation easily. · However, in the past, oral gossip would fade from memories over time and printed words were escapable as most publications would get buried away in the libraries. · Today, the Internet leaves gossip as a permanent mark on the celebrities' reputations, one that never fades. · With Google, it can be readily found in less than a second · It is available everywhere around you.

**Media Representation of Celebrity Gossip**

· The media takes a story of a celebrity and twists the facts to what the public would like to hear. · The media is aware that the public is obsessed with celebrity gossip and the media delivers to them by sometimes even making up stories. · When it comes to celebrity gossip, we cannot tell if its just a rumor or actually the truth. · The media plays a major part in tarnishing the celebs' reputations · This thins the line between the knowledge that people have about celebs and the rumours people tend to believe

**Example: Tiger Woods**

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**Celebrities Use of Gossip** · While nasty gossip can sing-handedly ruin a celebrity's image, celebrities can use gossip as a means to attract and magnetize the public's attention · Gossip is another way of making the targeted celebrity relevant agai n (whether good or bad) · Gossip gets people talking.. whether it is true or not, the fact that they are discussing you is quite possibly their aim. · In this day of age, celebrities communicate through gossip. Who's going out with who? Did Snooki really pose naked? Whatever it may be, its becoming all the norm for celebrities to be in contact with sites like TMZ.com, and Mediatakeout.com when they want something to share to the public. The gossip websites first get the dish, then we the public get the scoop. Celebrities and gossip sites work hand in hand together as opposed to the olden times.

Is there anything else I can discuss guys? Or specific examples I can bring up? I'm really drawing blanks here.. lol