Kändisar, reklam och mottagare
hur skapar mottagare mening kring kändisar i reklam?
Purpose/ Aim: The purpose is to study how receivers create meaning from celebrities in commercials. The purpose is also to find out if individuals identify with celebrities and if this is depending on a person?s age.Material/ Method: Qualitative research method based upon focus group interviews with three different age groups and on litterature.Main results: The study shows that recievers create meaning from and identify themselves with celebrities in different ways depending upon wich age group they are a part of. Individuals who are between the ages of 15 to 18 are inclined to be inspired in clothing and food choices. 25 to 30-yearolds are sometimes inspired by celebrities? clothes but when it comes to the forming of their identity they look to their peers. Individuals who are 35 to 45 are generally not inspired nor do they identify themselves with celebrities. This does not however make them unaffected by commercials with celebrities. Celebrities draw attention to themselves and by appearing in an advertisement they fulfill it?s objective wich is to make people watch and be, directly or indirectly, affected by it.