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Parasocial Breakup and Twitter: The Firing of Barb Abney
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Audiences can and do form parasocial relationships with media personalities as discussed by the authors, and media personalities, programs, and stations can use social media to enhance this relationship, and more and more stations an...Abstract:
Audiences can and do form parasocial relationships with media personalities. Media personalities, programs, and stations can use social media to enhance this relationship. More and more stations an...read more
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Seeing What’s Possible: Videos are more Effective than Written Portrayals for Enhancing the Relatability of Scientists and Promoting Black Female Students’ Interest in STEM
TL;DR: This article explored whether a brief video presentation of a Black female computer scientist would be an effective intervention compared to an identical written transcript and found that participants from the general U.S. population (Experiments 1, n'='201', and 2, n`='745) and Black women U. S. students (Experiment 3, n´='217) perceived the computer scientist as warmer and felt more virtual connection with the scientist in video compared to written format.
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From interaction to relationship: Rethinking parasocial phenomena in travel live streaming
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used an affordance lens to explore travel live streamers and viewers parasocial interactions (PSI) and relationships (PSR) using a more-than-human netnography method.
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“Dude I’ve Never Felt This Way Towards a Celebrity Death”: Parasocial Grieving and the Collective Mourning of Kobe Bryant on Reddit:
TL;DR: This study provides evidence to support the notion that like real relationships, emotional responses of grief like sadness dissipate over time, while other emotional responses like love increase.
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Social responses to and motivation involving knitting vlog viewing
TL;DR: This paper explored social psychological factors and motivation involving vlogs, filling gaps in the understanding of viewing needs and outcomes of this new cultural practice, and found that viewing needs are correlated with motivation.
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Conversational Style of Personality Radio Station Posts on Twitter: Applying Hall’s Proxemics to Digital Communication
TL;DR: Social media are essential to radio station communications, including program personalities who use social platforms to connect with their listeners.
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Toward a Theory of Entertainment Persuasion: Explaining the Persuasive Effects of Entertainment‐Education Messages
TL;DR: A growing body of research indicates that entertainment-education programming can be an effective way to deliver prosocial and health messages, and some have even speculated that entertainment education may be more effective than overtly persuasive messages in certain circumstances as mentioned in this paper.
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Loneliness, parasocial interaction, and local television news viewing
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual model was developed predicting parasocial interaction from both a social interaction need due to loneliness and instrumental television news use, and Pearson and partial correlations supported hypotheses linking loneliness with less interpersonal communication and both parasocial and parasocial interactions with more television reliance.
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Parasocial Interaction: A Review of the Literature and a Model for Future Research
TL;DR: This article considered the phenomenon of parasocial interaction (PSI) used by media researchers to describe the relationship between media users and media figures (from celebrities to fictional characters) and developed an original model of PSI for future social psychological research, which places PSI within the realm of ordinary social interaction.
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The Parasocial Contact Hypothesis
TL;DR: Tests of the underlying mechanisms of the Parasocial Contact Hypothesis were generally supported, suggesting that parasocial contact facilitates positive parasocial responses and changes in beliefs about the attributes of minority group categories.