"Who Kares About Kim Kardashian?!"

According to Instagram (2015) 54.6 million people do. This critical reflection is not solely about Kim Kardashian but about celebrities as a whole and what they represent in the society that we live in today. This reflection will unpack and deconstruct the processes behind celebrity culture as a new and expanding phenomenon focusing particularly on Foucault's (1979) use of Jeremy Bentham's concept of the 'panopticon' and surveillance; Ritzer's (2005) ideas around consumerism; and ideas that suggest that we are now in a knowledge/ information society. In using these theories, this critical reflection will explore the negative implications that the celebrity culture has for wider society, and in particular young girls.