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Mass Communication and Para-Social Interaction (1956)
- dredmorbius 3y agoThis paper is discussed in part of Tom Scott's 2019 video "There Is No Algorithm for the Truth": <https://yewtu.be/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU&33m36s https://yewtu.be/watch?v=leX541Dr2rU&33m36s>, which is also an excellent portrayal of the concept and brings the conversation to more recent media landscapes.
- nonrandomstring 3y ago"The audience is expected to accept the situation defined by the program format as credible, and to concede as "natural" the rules and conventions..." Eerily similar to Michel Chion's and Gilles Deleuze's formulation of the audio-visual contract, that the audience; - agree to temporarily suspend disbelief - allow the sounds and images to synthesise through introspective rationalisation Like Mulder, we "want to believe"