Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture’s celebrity mania. After a decade of diets and dates, breakups and baby bumps, celebrity gossip magazines continue to sell millions of issues each…
Tag: Gossip
We love celebrity gossip, but is it really good for us?
Our brains love gossip about celebrities, especially when it’s negative. Literally, our brains’ reward system lights up when we hear rumors about the rich and famous.
Gossip Girl 3
‘Welcome to New York’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I all live in huge, fabulous apartments and go to exclusive private schools. It’s a luxe life, but someone’s got to live it.’ This is the third book in the internationally bestselling series. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“YkXg-_RGCTkC”, 500,400);
Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria ́s Reign
Collection of narratives about occurences, scandals etc. in the noble society covering the period from 1837 to 1847. “I have written this Gossip not only for the edification of those to whom a portion, more or less, may be news, but for those who, like myself, have lived through the whole of Queen Victoria’s reign,…
Are you just venting, or are you a toxic gossip-lover? A therapist shares 3 ways to tell.
Warren said that gossiping can often be mistaken for venting, which can actually be a helpful practice for processing emotions. But people often use the words “gossip” and “vent” interchangeably, …
Celebrity gossip is all over the internet—again
In her “This Week on the Internet” column for the web_crawlr newsletter, Tiffany writes about the uptick in celebrity gossip this week.
Joe Jonas, Sophie Turner and when divorce gossip won’t quit
It might have been a sleepy Labor Day weekend for some, but celebrity gossip kept us wide awake. And by us, we might mean Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner.
The Poison of Gossip
Gossip is a sad and destructive fact of life. It damages reputations, ruins relationships, divides families and creates too much bad blood. This book examines gossip: the undeniable evil it does; the reasons why people gossip; ways of stopping it.I’ve noticed that gossip is one of those things that is so common in a relationship,…
Gossip Men
Introduction — The topography of modernity — The professional bureaucrat in the public eye — Populist masculinity in the American heartland — The power broker as a young man — Scandal as a political art — Under the Klieg lights — Epilogue : the long life of surveillance state masculinity. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“TII6EAAAQBAJ”, 500,400);