Parasocial experiences : psychological theory and application / David C. Giles and Gayle S. Stever.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Giles, David, 1964- author.

Stever, Gayle, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Psychological aspects.

Mass media.

Mass media--Social aspects.

Parasocial interaction--Psychological aspects.

Parasocial interaction.

Parasocial relationships--Psychological aspects.

Parasocial relationships.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

This text covers key aspects of parasocial relationships (PSRs), or the relationships people have with media personalities, including fictional characters. The principal feature of a PSR is that it is not individually reciprocated although when the parasocial object is a real person, usually a celebrity, that celebrity often has a reciprocal relationship with their audience as a group.

Contents:

Parasocial theory and psychological theory

Parasocial to social as a continuum

Multisocial interaction?

Parasocial perception and para-communication

Parasocial aspects of social relationships

Psychoanalytic theory and the parasocial

Parasocial attachment and its place in attachment theory

The social and the spiritual in fandom anD PSRs

Fans meet celebrities: cameo and conventions

Additional concepts applied to the study of audiences

Research methods in the field of parasocial theory

View from the road and methods employed

Summary and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 22, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-764767-7

0-19-764765-0

OCLC:

1452966211