found: Work cat.: Real characters : the psychology of parasocial relationships with media characters, 2020: p. 16 (The book you are holding explores what we know about our connections with characters and personalities we watch on screens or read about in books, which media psychologists refer to as parasocial relationships)(OCoLC)1252546364
found: Parasocial politics : audiences, pop culture, and politics, 2014:Introd. (In media studies, it is known that viewers of television shows form relationships with fictional characters that resemble real-live relationships, they are called parasocial relationships) (OCoLC)894892991
found: Tukachinsky Forster, R. Parasocial romantic relationships : falling in love with media figures, 2021:p. 1 (Parasocial means quasi-social. Parasocial relationships do not occur in the social world but in one's imagination, yet they resemble non mediated social relationships in their psychological makeup) (OCoLC)1247674977
found: More critical approaches to comics : theories and methods, 2020:p. 221 (A parasocial relationship is a perceived relationship with a media personality or fictional character that fulfills some attachment needs and is fundamentally equivalent to a real-life relationship) (OCoLC)1100425952
found: Encyclopedia of political communication, 2008:p. 530 (Parasocial relationship is a term used to describe the pseudo-personal relationship media users develop toward mass media performers) (OCoLC)150255668
found: Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationship : conceptual clarification and a critical assessment of measures, 2015:p. 25 (Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationship refer to related but distinct theoretical concepts. Parasocial interaction refers to a faux sense of mutual awareness that can only occur during viewing. In contrast, parasocial relationship refers to a longer-term association that may begin to develop during viewing, but also extends beyond the media exposure situation. Alternatively, parasocial relationship can develop without any parasocial interaction. Such might be the case for a viewer who observes a character that does not break the "fourth wall" and directly address the viewer (e.g., most fictional characters). Thus, even though no illusory mutual awareness is occurring, no parasocial interaction, the viewer can still form a longer-term association with the character, parasocial relationship) - https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/43408816.pdf found: Handbook of research on social interaction technologies and collaboration software, 2010:p. 313 (Parasocial relationship was first coined by Horton & Wohl to describe the pseudo friendships that occur between audience members and TV characters and other media personae. The notion of relationship is used here to describe faux interpersonal relationships that typically share some commonalities with actual interpersonal relationships) (OCoLC)297222642
found: The Routledge handbook of media use and well-being : international perspectives on theory and research on positive media effects, 2017:p. 133 (A parasocial interaction can be understood as the illusion of being in a reciprocal social interaction (although one is not), whereas it is not necessary to qualify the social relationships users develop towards media characters as illusionary (users may be fully aware of their one-sided nature). Furthermore, a parasocial interaction is initiated by and, thus, requires the presence of a mediated other, whereas a parasocial relationship can be experienced and also continues to exist even if the mediated other is not present. Furthermore, a parasocial interaction is neither inherently positive nor negative and it can be equally felt towards mediated others one likes or dislikes. In contrast, parasocial relationships can be defined and distinguished by their valence (e.g., friendship versus antipathy). A parasocial interaction and a parasocial relationship are triggered by different factors, e.g., a parasocial interaction by forms of addressing like eye-gazing, a positive parasocial relationship by the mediated other displaying attractive traits or behavior that instigate liking. Furthermore, encounters triggering parasocial interaction may contribute to parasocial relationships, but intense parasocial relationships can be formed without any parasocial interaction ever taking place. A typical and common example is if users develop parasocial relationships after only observing rather than "seemingly interacting with" characters e.g., as in most movies, TV series, or fictional formats in which characters do not "break the fourth wall." Clearly, parasocial interaction and relationships can be meaningfully distinguished) (OCoLC) 956745609
found: Rojek, C. Presumed intimacy : para-social relationships in media, society and celebrity culture, 2016.(OCoLC)907495006
