Tag: celebrity culture

• Mike Tyson vs Jake Paul: What’s behind the celebrity boxing craze?

  November 15, 2024

  Mike Tyson, the 58-year-old former heavyweight champion who has recently recovered from a stomach ulcer, is set to face 27-year-old YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a boxing match the AT&T Stadium… more ›

• Inside the AI Porn Marketplace Where Everything and Everyone Is for Sale

  August 23, 2023

  On CivitAI, a site for sharing image generating AI models, users can browse thousands of models that can produce any kind of pornographic scenario they can dream of, trained on… more ›

• Who’s Afraid of Lorne Michaels?

  August 22, 2023

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• How Should Gwyneth Paltrow Dress for Court?

  March 29, 2023

  Gwyneth Paltrow, wellness guru, entrepreneur and actress, has given the world many things: conscious uncoupling, rectal ozone therapy and, now, a week and a half into that limited series officially… more ›

• Commodity Kardashians

  August 27, 2022

  Technology does not want to replace you. It wants to make you interchangeable. The shift to an assumed-interest feed (rather than an expressed-interest feed) means it’s harder for anyone to build… more ›

• Let’s Agree That I Don’t Know You

  August 8, 2022

  In a world of strangers, the act of recognizing who you are has value. But increasingly that personalized greeting is becoming commoditized: from personalised spam to automated birthday greetings; the… more ›

• Algorithmic fame

  August 8, 2022

  Social influence rests on the fact that, when faced with abundance of choice, we habitually rely on others to know what to buy, read, wear, or listen to. When these… more ›

• How Lifelogging is Transforming the Way We Remember, Track Our Lives

  July 28, 2022

  Once explored by only an elite few, the practice of lifelogging refers, quite literally, to logging or registering your daily life with technical tools and services. When lifelogging first emerged… more ›

• China’s Biggest Movie Star Was Erased From the Internet, and the Mystery Is Why

  September 19, 2021

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• BTS for Louis Vuitton, Blackpink’s Jisoo for Dior: why luxury brands are choosing Asian celebrities as their global ambassadors

  May 17, 2021

  Until recently, the highly lucrative role of celebrity ambassador has largely been reserved for a particular type of person. Luxury brands tended to pick actresses and singers who are household… more ›