Re:Amusing Ourselves to Death
by RandomThoughts3 on Sunday September 29, 2024 @06:02AM
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By definition, you can’t build a parasocial relationship with an object. You could argue about parasocial attachment to characters I guess but even then I’m sceptical. I understand what you mean but parasocial is not the correct way to describe it.
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Cambride Dictionary explicitly includes books in its definition "involving or relating to a connection between a person and someone they do not know personally, for example a famous person or a character in a book: "
Maybe I should have specified that I meant the characters in a book, I thought that would be clear from the context.