David Giles
David Giles is the author of a 2002 review in Media Psychology of the research on parasocial interaction. The review found the concept widely used but thinly theorised and proposed a model that places parasocial interaction within ordinary social interaction.
Who they are
Giles's name is attached to this page through one paper, a literature review published in Media Psychology in 2002. This page rests on that one paper. His wider career, affiliations and other publications have not been checked against a source here, and no claim is made about them.
Key papers
Key ideas
The three open questions
The review named three questions the literature had left open: how parasocial interaction fits into everyday social activity, how it varies across types of media figure, from celebrities to fictional characters, and which processes over time and media use create what the paper calls a parasocial relationship.
The proposed model
The paper proposed a model for future research that places parasocial interaction within ordinary social interaction instead of treating it as a separate kind of experience.
Sources
- Giles, D. C. (2002). 'Parasocial interaction: A review of the literature and a model for future research.' Media Psychology, 4(3), 279-305. doi:10.1207/S1532785XMEP0403_04