Ruth A Deller
Biographic Data
| ID | 174425 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruth A Deller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Deller |
| SIGNATURE | DELLER R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4935-980X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sports Organisations’ Responses to Social Media Abuse Against Professional Sportswomen in UK Team Sports
While the popularity and growth of women’s professional sport have increased alongside recent advances in its professionalisation, online abuse has also risen. This is particularly evident in traditionally masculine sports such as rugby, cricket, and football. This study provides a novel insight into how UK football, rugby, and cricket organisations address the social media abuse faced by female athletes online, through a critical discourse analy…
Zoella hasn’t really written a book, she’s written a cheque’
In this article, we present a thematic analysis of broadcast and print media representations of YouTube celebrity. Youth-oriented media have capitalised on the phenomenon, placing vloggers alongside actors and pop stars. However, in much adult-oriented mainstream media, YouTubers are presented as fraudulent, inauthentic, opportunist and talentless, making money from doing nothing. Key themes recur in coverage, including YouTubers’ presumed lack o…
Mediated intimacy
In Mediated intimacy, Barker, Gill and Harvey present us with a thorough investigation of sex advice in the media, past and present. The first three chapters of the book comprise an overview of the
Ethics in Fan Studies Research
Working in fan studies raises a large number of potential ethical questions for researchers: issues of respecting participant anonymity compete with issues of recognizing fans for their labor and fan works; issues of protecting vulnerable subjects compete with giving them the opportunity to have their voices heard. This chapter considers the range of ethical issues that researchers might come across within fan studies and offers suggestions of th…
A companion to reality television
A Decade in the Life of Online Fan Communities
Fan communities and 'fan talk' have long been a concern of those researching fandom, from more traditional forms like fanzines and fan clubs to the newer congregational spaces of the Internet. Several studies of online fan communities explore the way that this sense of community is created in online environments. The research in each study consisted of two primary elements: observing and analysing the range of online environments where fan activi…
Star image, celebrity reality television and the fame cycle
In this article, I discuss the phenomenon of celebrity reality television and explore its function for those participating in it. Drawing on the success of their non-celebrity counterparts, programmes such as Celebrity Big Brother, I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here and Dancing With the Stars have become popular globally and, although arguably no longer at their peak, continue to attract large audiences and significant amounts of publicity. In…
Starstruck
"Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity, by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Faber and Faber, 2010." Celebrity Studies, 6(1), pp. 140–142 Additional informationNotes on contributorsRuth DellerRuth Deller is a principal lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, where she oversees the undergraduate Journalism, Media and Public Relations courses and delivers a Celebrity Culture module. She has published on topics including reality television, social medi…
Religion as makeover
In this article I discuss the relationship between religion, spirituality and processes of makeover and transformation as presented in a number of British reality television shows. Programmes including The Monastery, The Convent and Make Me a Muslim placed participants in scenarios where they experimented with adopting religious or spiritual practices as part of their journey of self-transformation. I argue that the nature of transformation in th…
Introduction
Introduction to the special issue
Reading the BDSM romance
This article presents the results of survey data from readers of the Fifty Shades novel series. It is almost 30 years since Janice Radway’s (1984) Reading the Romance was published and audience studies have burgeoned. However, public discourse about E L James’s trilogy was couched in assumptions about ‘formulaic’ genre fiction, alongside debates about its ‘mainstreaming’ of BDSM, and little of this discussion drew upon the voices of readers. Our …
Reading the BDSM romance
This article presents the results of survey data from readers of the Fifty Shades novel series. It is almost 30 years since Janice Radway’s (1984) Reading the Romance was published and audience studies have burgeoned. However, public discourse about E L James’s trilogy was couched in assumptions about ‘formulaic’ genre fiction, alongside debates about its ‘mainstreaming’ of BDSM, and little of this discussion drew upon the voices of readers. Our …
Star image, celebrity reality television and the fame cycle
In this article, I discuss the phenomenon of celebrity reality television and explore its function for those participating in it. Drawing on the success of their non-celebrity counterparts, programmes such as Celebrity Big Brother, I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here and Dancing With the Stars have become popular globally and, although arguably no longer at their peak, continue to attract large audiences and significant amounts of publicity. In…
Zoella hasn’t really written a book, she’s written a cheque’
In this article, we present a thematic analysis of broadcast and print media representations of YouTube celebrity. Youth-oriented media have capitalised on the phenomenon, placing vloggers alongside actors and pop stars. However, in much adult-oriented mainstream media, YouTubers are presented as fraudulent, inauthentic, opportunist and talentless, making money from doing nothing. Key themes recur in coverage, including YouTubers’ presumed lack o…
Religion as makeover
In this article I discuss the relationship between religion, spirituality and processes of makeover and transformation as presented in a number of British reality television shows. Programmes including The Monastery, The Convent and Make Me a Muslim placed participants in scenarios where they experimented with adopting religious or spiritual practices as part of their journey of self-transformation. I argue that the nature of transformation in th…
Introduction to the special issue
Reading the BDSM romance
This article presents the results of survey data from readers of the Fifty Shades novel series. It is almost 30 years since Janice Radway’s (1984) Reading the Romance was published and audience studies have burgeoned. However, public discourse about E L James’s trilogy was couched in assumptions about ‘formulaic’ genre fiction, alongside debates about its ‘mainstreaming’ of BDSM, and little of this discussion drew upon the voices of readers. Our …
Religion as makeover
In this article I discuss the relationship between religion, spirituality and processes of makeover and transformation as presented in a number of British reality television shows. Programmes including The Monastery, The Convent and Make Me a Muslim placed participants in scenarios where they experimented with adopting religious or spiritual practices as part of their journey of self-transformation. I argue that the nature of transformation in th…
Introduction
Starstruck
"Starstruck: The Business of Celebrity, by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, Faber and Faber, 2010." Celebrity Studies, 6(1), pp. 140–142 Additional informationNotes on contributorsRuth DellerRuth Deller is a principal lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, UK, where she oversees the undergraduate Journalism, Media and Public Relations courses and delivers a Celebrity Culture module. She has published on topics including reality television, social medi…
A companion to reality television
A Decade in the Life of Online Fan Communities
Fan communities and 'fan talk' have long been a concern of those researching fandom, from more traditional forms like fanzines and fan clubs to the newer congregational spaces of the Internet. Several studies of online fan communities explore the way that this sense of community is created in online environments. The research in each study consisted of two primary elements: observing and analysing the range of online environments where fan activi…
Star image, celebrity reality television and the fame cycle
In this article, I discuss the phenomenon of celebrity reality television and explore its function for those participating in it. Drawing on the success of their non-celebrity counterparts, programmes such as Celebrity Big Brother, I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here and Dancing With the Stars have become popular globally and, although arguably no longer at their peak, continue to attract large audiences and significant amounts of publicity. In…
Ethics in Fan Studies Research
Working in fan studies raises a large number of potential ethical questions for researchers: issues of respecting participant anonymity compete with issues of recognizing fans for their labor and fan works; issues of protecting vulnerable subjects compete with giving them the opportunity to have their voices heard. This chapter considers the range of ethical issues that researchers might come across within fan studies and offers suggestions of th…
Zoella hasn’t really written a book, she’s written a cheque’
In this article, we present a thematic analysis of broadcast and print media representations of YouTube celebrity. Youth-oriented media have capitalised on the phenomenon, placing vloggers alongside actors and pop stars. However, in much adult-oriented mainstream media, YouTubers are presented as fraudulent, inauthentic, opportunist and talentless, making money from doing nothing. Key themes recur in coverage, including YouTubers’ presumed lack o…
Mediated intimacy
In Mediated intimacy, Barker, Gill and Harvey present us with a thorough investigation of sex advice in the media, past and present. The first three chapters of the book comprise an overview of the
Sports Organisations’ Responses to Social Media Abuse Against Professional Sportswomen in UK Team Sports
While the popularity and growth of women’s professional sport have increased alongside recent advances in its professionalisation, online abuse has also risen. This is particularly evident in traditionally masculine sports such as rugby, cricket, and football. This study provides a novel insight into how UK football, rugby, and cricket organisations address the social media abuse faced by female athletes online, through a critical discourse analy…
Sociology (9 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Digital Games and Media (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Phenomenon (3 works)