Download e-book for iPad: Presumed Intimacy: Parasocial Interaction in Media, Society by Chris Rojek

By Chris Rojek

ISBN-10: 0745671101

ISBN-13: 9780745671109

ISBN-10: 074567111X

ISBN-13: 9780745671116

‘Presumed intimacy’ refers to a courting that calls for fast belief, self belief, disclosure and the popularity of vulnerability. Chris Rojek investigates the effect of relationships of ‘presumed intimacy’, the place audiences shape powerful identifications with mediated others, whether or not they be celebrities, political personae or on-line acquaintances. Arguing that the way in which the media may be able to deal with those relationships is an important element in their energy constitution, the center of the booklet is an research into the complicity of the media in encouraging presumed intimacy and the cultural, social and political outcomes bobbing up from this. past this, it examines how intimacy is played as a masquerade in lots of social settings – the scripts we stick with in social settings that attempt to manufacture a shortcut to intimacy.

A compelling investigate mediated relationships within the community society, Presumed Intimacy might be a key contribution to the serious research of society, media and culture.

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