Presumed intimacy
Subtitle: parasocial interaction in media, society and celebrity culture
By: Chris Rojek
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780745671109; 9780745671116
Subjects: Social aspects; Intimacy (Psychology); Celebrities; Mass media; Social interaction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Living with statistical men and women; title: Chimerical risk management; title: The shockwaves of trauma; title: The lost neighbour proposition and the collateral damage problem; title: Horizontal frontierism: the juggernaut of character; title: The accentuation of personality; title: Vertical frontierism: four case studies; title: Cracks in the mirror; title: The gestural economy; title: Institutional and counter-institutional gestural economies; title: Nuda veritas.