“You're the Kind of Guy That We All Want for a Drinking Buddy”: Expressions of Parasocial Interaction on Floydlandis.com

By Jeffrey W. Kassing, Jimmy Sanderson. 2009

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Communication, Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/027ff74996150c26ff2fd0192a291a1a1bbe2adb

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In Communication

1. René M. Dailey
2. Blair W. Browning
3. Galen Clavio
4. Evan L. Frederick
5. Pauline Hope Cheong
6. Jimmy Sanderson
7. Keren Eyal
8. P. Walsh

In Gender Studies

1. Blair W. Browning
2. René M. Dailey
3. Jimmy Sanderson
4. Evan L. Frederick
5. P. Walsh
6. C. Lim
7. Galen Clavio
8. Pauline Hope Cheong

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. René M. Dailey
2. Blair W. Browning
3. Pauline Hope Cheong
4. Jimmy Sanderson
5. Keren Eyal
6. Bradley J. Bond
7. Riva H. Tukachinsky
8. Jihyun Kim

Citations in the corpus

• The Positives and Negatives of Twitter: Exploring How Student-Athletes Use Twitter and Respond to Critical Tweets (2012, methodology): “Both authors then discussed themes until reaching consensus regarding the content and nature of themes, a procedure that has been employed in other qualitative research (Karras & Rintamaki, 2012; Kassing & Sanderson, 2009).”
• Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief Over Michael Jackson Online (2010, background): “Research has observed that parasocial interaction is increasingly being performed online (Kassing & Sanderson, 2009), and it seems that the capability to create and distribute individualized tributes about celebrities may alleviate some of the suffering that people experience when a beloved media…”
• Examining Relational Maintenance in Parasocial Relationships (2012, background): “…to date, relatively low levels of online participation with certain television genres have been identified in some studies (e.g., Godlewski & Perse, 2010), researchers are increasingly examining investment in PSRs in new media contexts, such as the Internet (e.g., Kassing & Sanderson, 2009).”
• Why We Follow: An Examination of Parasocial Interaction and Fan Motivations for Following Athlete Archetypes on Twitter (2012, background): “PSI, which can be used to understand how Internet technologies affect fan–athlete interaction (Kassing & Sanderson, 2009), has yet to be quantitatively examined in conjunction with uses and gratifications on Twitter from the fan perspective.”