Talk:Parasocial interaction

message: This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 3 September 2019 and 12 December 2019. Further details are available on the course page.  Peer reviewers: WeiZou.
=== 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title: Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

message: 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)
thread_title:  CCT peer edit 2019 -- Wei Zou 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Peer Review, CCT 2019 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  CCT Fall 2019 Peer Review by Venora Wang 

message: This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 1 September 2020 and 8 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Chinchin66. Peer reviewers: Zw321, As4574.
=== CCT peer review 2020 ===
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: <Instagram and YouTube bloggers promote it, why should I buy? How credibility and parasocial interaction influence purchase intentions><Engaging fans on microblog: The synthetic influence of parasocial interaction and source characteristics on celebrity endorsement>Zw321 (talk) 08:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

message: 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: <Instagram and YouTube bloggers promote it, why should I buy? How credibility and parasocial interaction influence purchase intentions><Engaging fans on microblog: The synthetic influence of parasocial interaction and source characteristics on celebrity endorsement>Zw321 (talk) 08:18, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  CCT peer review 2020 

message: It would be nice to have a photo of people watching a TV set.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 23:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: 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)
thread_title:  Live streaming? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Stanning 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Section on Virtual Youtubers aka Vtubers? 

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