Public relations management of Privacy in the celebrity world can be a difficult thing to do, with celebrities constantly being in the public eye and in a world where everything is online & your movements can be traced. Its not just a matter of keeping out of the way of paparazzi anymore.
There have been:
-Nude photo leaks of a number of celebrities from having their personal iClouds
hacked. Leaking onto Imgur & other photo/file hosting sites.
hacked. Leaking onto Imgur & other photo/file hosting sites.
- Phone hacking scandals (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14151678)
- Even medical records were being inappropriately accessed for the sake of press.
- Even medical records were being inappropriately accessed for the sake of press.
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| Hugh Grant |
Some celebs such as Hugh Grant are now campaigning for less rights of access to personal celebrity info. (He has a campaign called 'Hacked off' which is to raise awareness of the privacy, the phone hacking scandal and to look into it. He also wants to develop a better guideline for press to work by - http://hackinginquiry.org/ )
Some argue that 'celebrities deserve no private life as this is the lifestyle they have chose and they know the consequences' but then on the other hand some people are born into celebrity with no choice in the matter and they are still human beings like anyone else, with entitlements to privacy. You can imagine how unnerving it would be to have your most personal details shared, tracked and broadcast to the world. Its understandable why a lot of celebrities have PR managers that manage their social network profiles for them, to ensure the wrong things don't come out.
Some blame press guidelines and as Hugh Grants campaign is working toward, wants the system improved and to have more legal protection with what the press can and cant access. As the press regulatory body IPSO (Independent press standards Organisation) is seen as not a strong enough power to control this. Are the laws strong enough to ensure PR managers can feel their clients are kept safe? It might even make their job harder and have to become more personal to celebrity lives themselves (but that may even risk personal information being leaked by Managers!)
Public relations management may need to evolve and try keep even more on top of information and invent more preventative measures to keep their client safe.
As the barrier between celebrities & their audiences narrow, with contact becoming more spontaneous and personal with social networks available at a click of a button. It can be hard for celebrities and even their PR managers to keep a balance between work & personal life. What do you think about celebrity privacy? Please comment below and let us know what you think.
More info on privacy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14151678
Public relations management may need to evolve and try keep even more on top of information and invent more preventative measures to keep their client safe.
As the barrier between celebrities & their audiences narrow, with contact becoming more spontaneous and personal with social networks available at a click of a button. It can be hard for celebrities and even their PR managers to keep a balance between work & personal life. What do you think about celebrity privacy? Please comment below and let us know what you think.
More info on privacy - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14151678
I think it's ridiculous that in the age of technological evolution, and an information age, we've lost site of what is morally okay. Everyone is entitled to have a private life, and living a life where that's challenging must be incredibly difficult so I wholeheartedly support Hugh Grant's campaign.
ReplyDeleteYou've made some interesting comments about the two sides of the debate here, from it's a side effect of celebrity culture to press standards but it would have been interesting if you could have gone into more detail about this - perhaps think of some examples that would back up your point.
You also presented a really good point that in this age of social networking it becomes harder to manage your public self and your private self. I think you've got some good views that people can chew over, but I think you need to add more examples or information to back-up your point.
Seems like a good blog post, language is detached and unbiased which is good in todays tumblr opinionated age, the spacing of text around the hugh grant image could be smaller because it breaks up the article a bit too much.
ReplyDeleteMore examples of privacy invasion could be cited to help explain the magnitude of the supposed issue addressed in the blog post of information over indulgence.
I really do think that being a celebrity or not should be out the question. I also believe that celebs should indeed be entitled to equal privacy rights as everyone one else regardless of their career choices, having said that I can understand some of the fascination leading some of the leaked information such as baby pictures/names, current relationships, and a few others details; however when it comes to things like nude photos, personal medical information I'm completely against it and think there should be people being held accountable for the release/use of any information like that unless within reason(crime related) if it wasn't done by the celebrity themselves as this can lead to defamation and if nothing else to me it’s bordering on creepy...
ReplyDeleteThe Kim and Kanye's of this world deserve all they get, last thing we want is new laws to be written so that they can be mis used later
ReplyDeleteThe blog addresses some good points but I think you should go into further detail when discussing social media.The ability for celebrities to post personally and not just through their PR team has the potential for misunderstandings. I think you could have talked about Snap Chat and how celebrities are making theirs public. Instead of just posting statuses it is now possible to see exactly what they are doing at different points in their day.
ReplyDeletePersonally agree that privacy is important and I think that it is important to remember that there is a difference between being a celebrity and playing a character. The celebrity is a person beyond their fame and they deserve the right to live their lives privately just as much as any "normal" person does. Just wanting to know personal information should not be enough of a reason to have access to it. I do however think that if information is gathered in an ethical way or can impact people negatively if not shared the responsible thing to do is reveal.
Thanks for the comments guys, muchly appreciated :)
ReplyDelete@Emily, Yeah its rather sad how its come to this where peoples privacy has to be questioned, as if they deserve none at all and are some sort of circus show. Thanks for the feedback too, I'll have to remember to use more examples next time :)
@Seth thanks, and yeah I really agree with the whole spacing thing, for some reason the software wouldnt let me change that and it was driving me mad :) & like I said to Emily I'll bear that in mind for next time with the examples,
@Censi, Thanks for your comment :) and I didnt want to touch on snapchat as another blogger on our blog was covering things about snapchat & social media celebrity so I didnt wanna risk sounding like a broken record and repeat what she said aha. Privacy is alwaayysss important oui :)