S. Mark Young
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S. Mark Young holds the George Bozanic and Holman G. Hurt Chair in Sports and Entertainment Business. He is also a Professor of Accounting and Management within the Marshall School, and a Professor of Communication (Annenberg School, USC). Young teaches and does research in the area of entertainment management with a speciality in the psychology of celebrity and popular culture.
Together with Mike Richardson (Dark Horse Entertainment's President) and Steve Duin (columnist for The Oregonian newspaper), Young wrote Blast Off! Rockets, Robots, Ray Guns and Rarities from the Golden Age of Space Toys (Dark Horse Books, 2001). Young's most recent book, Entertainment Management - Understanding the Business of Motion Pictures, Television, Music and Games, will be a primer on how the entertainment industry operates and will be published by Prentice Hall.
Recently, he and Loveline 's Dr. Drew Pinsky published a study entitled Narcissism and Celebrity in the Journal of Research in Personality (October, 2006). While most information about celebrities is anecdotal, this paper is the first to directly gather actual data from celebrities. The paper gained world-wide attention appearing in over 150 major news and entertainment websites and newspapers worldwide. Young was interviewed on Howard Stern's and Mitch Albom's radio shows as well as National Public Radio and the KTLA Morning News in Los Angeles. The study will also be included as part of the New York Times Mazagine's special issue, The Year in Ideas for 2006.
Young is a graduate of Oberlin College and has a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.
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