Social TV viewers’ symbolic parasocial interactions with media characters: A topic modelling analysis of viewers’ comments

To identify the involvement outcomes of viewers’ symbolic parasocial interactions with media characters and to measure the impact on series popularity, we capitalized on big data in the form of social TV viewers’ comments, sampled from nine Korean TV series with different popularity levels broadcast...

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Main Authors: Jinju Kim, Jordi López Sintas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021-01-01
Series:Social Sciences and Humanities Open
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590291121000255