... to a specific school. This chapter also talks about the significance of personal reputation, noting how ‘heroic’ individuals achieved a sort of celebrity status as mathematicians and philosophers of nature, including Posidonius of Apamea and Archimedes, two figures who achieved great fame in antiquity...

...The media often overattributes positive organizational outcomes to the CEO, sometimes attributing them a “rock-star-like” status. However, not all well-performing CEOs are awarded celebrity status. Why, then, are some CEOs are awarded celebrity status while others do not? In this study, we draw...

... around media. It also looks at several studies that focus on homicide perpetrators' use of media, noting that some scholars have pointed to the killer's pursuit of celebrity status. The chapter concludes by calling on criminologists to push the boundaries and engage with questions of media as practice...

...Another aspect of writers' celebrity status was the hero worship they attracted. Poets such as Swinburne and Tennyson were famed for their dramatic readings. Literary tourism developed, with fans visiting authors' birthplaces, homes, or haunts. Many moaned about the invasion of privacy but many...

... Dystrophy Association Arthritis Foundation celebrity status The telethon was invented just after World War II by private health charities as a tool to tap into the emerging mass medium of broadcast television. “Telethon” is a portmanteau word combining “television” and “marathon.” The first “television...