The handbook of children, media, and development

By Sandra L. Calvert, Barbara J. Wilson. 2008

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Toddlers' Learning From Socially Meaningful Video Characters (2011, background): “Children form emotional relationships with television characters (Hoffner, 1996, 2008), reporting that they ‘‘really like’’ certain popular television characters such as Dora from Dora the Explorer (Calvert, Strong, Jacobs, & Conger, 2007).”
Relation between active mediation, exposure to Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, and US preschoolers’ social and emotional development (2016, background): “They should also be able to find it easier to extract themes or moral lessons because active mediation explicitly clarifies these lessons (Mares et al., 2011).”
A Model and Measure of US Parents' Perceptions of Young Children's Parasocial Relationships (2014, methodology): “Based on prior scales and empirical research (Giles, 2002; Hoffner, 1996; Hoffner, 2008), five items were included on the PSR scale to quantify personification of children’s favorite media characters.”
New directions for early literacy in a digital age: The iPad (2015, background): “…et al., 2010), computers (author, 2011; 2012; Plowman, Stephen and McPake, 2010), digital games (Apperley and Walsh, 2012), digital texts (Thoermer and Williams, 2012) and a range of new media (Burnett and Merchant, 2012; Calvert & Wilson, 2008; Carrington and Robinson, 2009; Wohlwend, 2009, 2010).”
Parasocial Interaction With Liked, Neutral, and Disliked Characters on a Popular TV Series (2010, background): “Television offers access to a wide range of human beings, and viewers form impressions of and develop affective bonds to fictional characters and other media figures (Caughey, 1984; Hoffner, 2008; Horton & Wohl, 1956).”
Parasocial Relationships with Media Personae: Why They Matter and How They Differ Among Heterosexual, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adolescents (2018, background): “Reciprocity, traditionally lacking in PSRs, is decidedly more likely when media personae can retweet on Twitter or send quick responses on Instagram.”