Ideally, a media system suitable for a democracy ought to provide its readers with some
coherent sense of the broader social forces that affect the conditions of their everyday lives …

This paper considers the phenomenon of parasocial interaction (PSI) used by media
researchers to describe the relationship between media users and media figures (from …

The proliferation of visual media worldwide during the past 50 years has made mediated
personalities, both real people and fictional characters, powerful agents of social change …

The Dictionary of Media and Communication is an authoritative and wide-ranging AZ
providing over 2,200 entries on terms used in media and communication, from concepts and …

Over the last four decades, new modes of communication have redefined people's
engagement with media: media audiences are now also makers, influencers, followers …

In this article I argue that although the notion of identification with media characters is widely
discussed in media research, it has not been carefully conceptualized or rigorously tested in …

In the American political process, news discourse concerning public policy issues is
carefully constructed. This occurs in part because both politicians and interest groups take …

" This book compiles and integrates highly innovative work aimed at bridging the fields of
anthropology and consumer behavior."—Journal of Consumer Affairs"... fascinating …

The present research introduces the concept of experience-taking—the imaginative process
of spontaneously assuming the identity of a character in a narrative and simulating that …

Within both academic and policy discourses, the concept of media literacy is being extended
from its traditional focus on print and audiovisual media to encompass the internet and other …