Parasocial Interaction
See also the suggested reading for particular
assignments.
- Ashe, Diane D & Lynn E. McCutcheon (2001) 'Shyness, Loneliness, and Attitude Toward Celebrities',
Current Research in Social Psychology
[WWW document] URL
http://www.uiowa.edu/~grpproc/crisp/crisp.6.9.htm
- Burnett, Ann & Rhea Reinhardt Beto (2000)
'Reading Romance Novels: An Application of Parasocial Relationship Theory',
North Dakota Journal of Speech and Theatre 13
[WWW document] URL
http://www.sendit.nodak.edu/ndsta/beto.htm
- Chandler, Daniel and Rod Munday (2011)
Dictionary of Media and Communication. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Handelman, Don (2003): 'Towards the Virtual Encounter: Horton's and
Wohl's "Mass communication and Para-Social interaction"'.
In Elihu Katz, John Durham Peters, Tamar Liebes & Avril Orloff (Eds) (2002)
Canonic Texts in Media Research. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 137-151
- Horton, Donald and R. Richard Wohl (1956)
'Mass Communication and Para-social Interaction: Observations on Intimacy at a Distance',
Psychiatry 19: 215-29; online extract [WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Documents/short/horton_and_wohl_1956.html
- McCourt, Andrea & Jacki Fitzpatrick (2001)
'The role of Personal Characteristics and Romantic Characteristics in Parasocial
Relationships: A Pilot Study', Journal of Mundane Behavior 2(1)
[WWW document] URL
http://www.mundanebehavior.org/issues/v2n1/mccourt_fitzpatrick.htm
- O'Sullivan, Patrick B. and Cynthia Hoffner (1998)
'Across the Great Divide: Melding Mass and Interpersonal Theory Through Mediated Relationships'
[WWW document] URL
http://www.ilstu.edu/~posull/OS&H1998.htm
- Zhao, Shanyang (2001?) 'Toward A Taxonomy of Copresence',
[WWW document] URL
http://nimbus.ocis.temple.edu/~mlombard/P2001/Zhao.pdf [Requires Adobe Acrobat]