Defining identification: a theoretical look at the identification of audiences with media characters

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This article examines the social impact of audience identification of media characters. The author, asserting audience identification in media research has been neglected, discusses the link between socialization and identification with media characters and the consequences of media influence over an audience in which social attitudes can be manipulated.

Social aspects, Research, Interpersonal relations, Mass media, Socialization, Audiences, Identification (Psychology)

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Parasocial breakups: measuring individual differences in responses to the dissolution of parasocial relationships

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Parasocial relationship is the relationship that exists between the television viewers and the characters they watch and involve feelings and reactions toward characters. Study on parasocial relationship reveals that, although women develop stronger parasocial relationships, they do not react differently than men, to expected breakup.

Psychological aspects, Television viewers, Characters and characteristics in television programs, Television characters

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Rebelde way in Israel: Parental perceptions of television influence and monitoring of children's social and media activities

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The framework of the third person effect is used to examine parents' perceptions of the influence of a youth-targeted on their own versus other children. How parents' perceptions of the influence of harmful media messages, and their beliefs about them, affect their parenting practices, is explored.

Israel, Analysis, Television programs, Parent and child, Parent-child relations, Television and children

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