Talk:Parasocial interaction

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CCT peer edit 2019 -- Wei Zou
The Parasocial Interaction Wikipedia entry begins with a clear and concise introduction that defines the term and mention its founders--David Horton and Richard Wohl. The article states that parasocial interaction is a relationship between audiences and performers despite limited amount of interactions the audience have with actual performers. The entry is organized by headings starting with its discovery and then to a variety subheadings to discuss examples of parasocial interaction ranging from children and adolescents, sports, social media, and branding. The page also explore the positive and negative consequences of parasocial interaction, and how parasocial interaction is now becoming prevalent in online environments such as YouTube, and blog posts. Toward the end of the entry, the authors suggest for further research and experiment to be conducted to examine parasocial interaction in different types of genres and relationships. This entry has a few areas of growth to help improve its content. First, the author should create a separate heading to discuss what social interaction is to give background knowledge to readers, if not a link to another entry will do. This will allow a clearer connection to be made when readers begin to read about how parasocial interaction is a subset of social interaction.

I’d recommend reading the following article to add more specific examples and understanding of parasocial interaction “Instagram and YouTube bloggers promote it, why should I buy? How credibility and parasocial interaction influence purchase intentions” by Karina Sokolova and Hajer Kefi. Another article to consider is “Travelers’ parasocial interactions in online travel communities” by Sooyoung Choi, Insin Kim, Kyungsoo Cha, Yong-kun, and Keun-Hyung Kim to provide the entry with more relevant and up to date research of the theory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by WeiZou (talk • contribs) 04:47, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review, CCT 2019
Hey there, this is such a relevant theory and I'm feeling a personal connection to this since I just spent the weekend meeting the stars of my favorite Youtube channel, Bon Appetit. I feel like my experience ties into the future research that is already listed on the page and that section is absolutely useful for anyone interested in this evolution of this theory.

What I'm having trouble with on this page, however, just has more to do with the organization of the information. I feel like the Positive and Negative Consequences in Childhood headings could be condensed into one superheading like Psychological Implications During Childhood & Adolescence. This new super-section is also closely aligned with the Studies with Children and Adolescents subheading and could potentially be combined with that as well.

Overall, this page provides an easily digestible overview of the theory's history and application with many current examples to rely on. I would even go as far to suggest that each social media platform deserves it's own heading since it seems like there is a ton of current research being released now that people of all ages spend a ton of time on social media platforms. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MooreC611 (talk • contribs) 21:51, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

CCT Fall 2019 Peer Review by Venora Wang
The lead is very simple and concise. The structure from my point is also clear and nice, reader-friendly.

As a Subset of Social Interaction: I do think that it might be clearer if scientific research and studies could be moved out of this segment to form one separate part as research and studies. Sports: the "sports" part is not in a parallel structure from the other research and studies since it appears as more about application. It would be clearer if there is an application segment and sports could be moved to that part.

Positive consequences of Childhood: both this part and the studies on children are focused on the child community. It could be integrated with the study of children in the prior section as a general "childhood" category so there would be less content duplication.

In Social Media: this part is too long. It would be more reader-friendly if the length could be shorter with only the most important and relevant information remaining. And among all the social media platforms mentioned here, only Youtube has its own subtitle standing. Maybe the editor can consider having subtitles for each platform mentioned here.

References: It is strange that only the first 31 sources are marked with numbers whereas the remaining ones have only bulletpoints. The form could be unified if all sources are numbered, otherwise it is somewhat confusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by VenoraW (talk • contribs) 03:56, 23 October 2019 (UTC)


 * Agreed that having references in two sections was confusing. Combined references from bulleted list and made them linked numbered footnotes. There were some duplicates and some that were not referenced in the text at all. Autumm393 (talk) 03:10, 31 October 2019 (UTC)

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The contents part is not well organized and nonacademic readers may find it hard to sort out the whole structure of this theory. The “scientific research” is very comprehensive and covers a lot of content. However, I think too much description will confuse readers. I think this part can be shortened a little bit to highlight important conclusions.

The “on the internet” part and “in social media” may confuse readers. Social media can be categorized under Internet. I think the structure of these two parts can be adjusted to make it clearer. Another thing that I am quite confused at is the “In media” part. What is the meaning and purpose of this part? Maybe it can be incorporated into commercial influence part?

References: Zw321 (talk) 08:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

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I'd like to see more about the effect social media has had on this topic. Rlhamm (talk) 14:27, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

Hello, all! I added the section titled "In Social Media." Rlhamm (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 01:23, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Merger proposal
While there are apparently some subtle differences in how experts use the terms, the new article at Parasocial relationships appears at to be an accidental repeat of a topic that already existed in Wikipedia. I propose to merge that article into Parasocial interaction here. The new article includes some research findings that can enhance the previously-existing article, though this is not a reason to sustain two separate articles that are largely about the same topic. ---  DOOMSDAYER 520 (Talk&#124;Contribs) 22:20, 17 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I have not spent much time with the Parasocial relationships article but having spend some time with this Parasocial interaction one and having dug into its citations I would agree that the two concepts are very closely related. It does not seem like a subtle difference only known to experts to me though - it seems rather simple - "Interactions" have the potential to lead to "Relationships" be they social or parasocial. Though it is true that in the early lit the terms were used pretty loosely and then later researchers made a specific distinction between them. I can understand the confusion though, there is a fair amount (several articles) of academic talk making that distinction but I think it is more because of an early sloppiness with the concept and a need to clarify than the distinction itself being too complex for the average reader. I'm in favor of a merger though I have never participated in a merger as an editor and so I have questions about the direction it would take. Though the Parasocial interaction page is more developed than the Parasocial relationships page, is that the only criteria for the direction of the merge? For instance I note that there is only one article for Social relation and that Social interaction redirects to it. Does this set a precedent for relations over interactions? Should the merger maybe happen the other way making Parasocial relationships the main article? Or perhaps rename the main article to "Parasocial relation" to match the same set up as Social relations. Or since this parasocial phenomena is less known to the general public than social relations perhaps naming the thing itself as "Parasocality" would be more appropriate? Autumm393 (talk) 06:27, 19 December 2019 (UTC)


 * I agree ^, if the pages are to be merged, the title ought to be "Parasociality" but with sections differentiating between parasocial interactions and relationships, because they are different concepts and are often conflated (even in academic research).


 * While I think parasociality would be the best term, I have not seen a ton of research (I was researching the subject last year) referencing the phenomenon in such a way. Additionally, when searching for "parasociality" here on Wikipedia, it leads to a kind of ecological use of the same term to describe mammalian interaction. I have no knowledge in this area but thought it worth pointing out. Sojkaaaa (talk) 16:07, 23 September 2020 (UTC)


 * Given that the preferred title is unclear, I've merged as proposed; the title can be changes with a MOVE if there is a consensus to do so. I wouldn't support "parasocality" as this doesn't seem to be a widely used topic. Klbrain (talk) 04:58, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

Live streaming?
No mentions of live streaming even though it's platform most capable of creating parasocial relationships through fan interaction and the nature of it being live — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.10.252.159 (talk) 16:56, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Stanning
I'm kinda surprised that this article doesn't contain the term 'stanning' (see stanning). Is there a meaningful difference between stanning and a negative excess of parasocial interaction, or should it be (at least) cross-referenced? LRataplan (talk) 12:09, 25 June 2021 (UTC)

Section on Virtual Youtubers aka Vtubers?
I was looking in the article for a section on Virtual Youtubers, but I guess they haven't been exposed to the English-speaking world long enough for there to be any mention of them yet. They take parasocial relationships to an extreme compared to anything else, as they often involve the romantic feelings of the viewers. Ergzay (talk) 10:35, 9 October 2021 (UTC)

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