From Star to Celebrity; The Role of social media on the transformation of fame and fanning of Tataloo

The celebrity Culture and fanning celebrities, micro-celebrities have spread in Iranian society during the two last decades. This new phenomenon has been studied in different ways and approaches, The development of social media has changed the approaches to celebrity culture and made new perspectives for traditional stars and ordinary people to experience new meanings of fame. This paper is to study the celebrity culture in Iranian society at the age of social media by focusing on Amir Tataloo. To achieve the goal of the paper, thematic analysis has been applied to analyze the tracks of Tataloo and the main themes in his virtual representations on social media. The time area of research is the post-Covid-19 outbreak period and widespread global quarantine which Tataloo and his fans accelerated on social media. Research analysis on the content published in different social media by Tataloo on different personal, social, , political issues shows that the distinguishing characteristic of Tataloo from other celebrities is his simultaneous features of star and micro-celebrity& this feature has made a different situation for him. By using this central feature, the main themes of Tataloo activities are: “realism”, “Taboo violation”, “mutual interaction with fans”, “advertising a lifestyle” and “self-branding”.