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Mediating Relationships with Parasocial Others : = Relating, Connecting, and Making Meanings.

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Title/Author:	Mediating Relationships with Parasocial Others :/
Reminder of title:	Relating, Connecting, and Making Meanings.
Author:	Cuellar, John Marc.
Description:	1 online resource (218 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-05B.
Subject:	Communication. -
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ISBN:	9798684612732

Mediating Relationships with Parasocial Others : = Relating, Connecting, and Making Meanings.
Cuellar, John Marc.

Mediating Relationships with Parasocial Others :Relating, Connecting, and Making Meanings. - 1 online resource (218 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, 2020.

Includes bibliographical references

I explore connections made with mediated others, parasocial relationships, in this study. I was guided by Bakhtinian understandings of mediation between consummated parties. To investigate, I interviewed participants who connected with a parasocial figure(s). Engaging in crystallization, I layered my story onto the stories of others who make mediated connections, using autoethnography as an additional methodological tool. I interpretively categorized the themes using Rawlins' dialectical perspective as a lens through which to analyze the findings. The themes that emerged included three overarching dialectical features: The Dialectic of the Freedom to be Independent and the Freedom to be Dependent, the Dialectic of Judgment and Acceptance, and the Dialectic of the Ideal and the Real. The first overarching dialectic encompassed three subthemes: the Dialectic of Pride and the Need for Recognition, the Dialectic of Availability and Disengagement, and the Dialectic of Stalker and Fan (Stan). The second overarching theme included two subthemes: the Dialectic of the Freedom to Share and the Freedom to Keep for Oneself and the Dialectic of Satisfaction and Cancellation. Finally, the last overarching theme also comprised two subthemes, which included the Dialectic of Emotionality and Rationality and the Dialectic of the Real and the Unreal. These dialectical features emerged when participants spoke of competing tensions within their mediated connections. When making sense of the dialectical features, I recalled personal stories that resonated with the same tensions experienced by the participants.

Electronic reproduction.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798684612732Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Communication.
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Parasocial relationshipsIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

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