Details:
The definitions under this heading explicitly
involve technology;
the phenomenon is a
subjective property of an individual person; the source
of the stimuli in the experience is only external (outside the
body);
and there is an inaccurate perceptioon that
technology is not involved in the experience when it is;
and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of
primary interest is related
to social entitites (human, electronic and otherwise), specifically
para-social interaction in which one-way communication via media
seems to be two-way.
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Sample
defintion(s):
Horton & Wohl (1956):
"One of the striking characteristics
of the new mass media--radio, television, and the movies--is that they
give the illusion of face-to-face relationship with the performer. The
conditions of response to the performer are analogous to those in a primary
group. ... We propose to call this seeming face-to-face relationship
between spectator and performer a para-social relationship." (abstract); "The
more the performer seems to adjust his performance to the supposed response
of the audience, the more the audience tends to make the response anticipated.
This simulacrum of conversational give and take may be called para-social
interaction" (p. 215) (cited in Lombard & Ditton, 1997)
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