A mechanism or tactic · 1950 · Broadcast
The local news anchor
One person on your own television, in your own town, for twenty years, who is leaving and everybody is upset.
Rubin's longitudinal work is on exactly this bond. When a local anchor retires the grief is measurable and there is no word for it, because a parasocial relationship with a local figure is assumed to be about the news rather than about the person.
Application. One-sided attachment put to work on purpose. Creator economies, community, fandom as infrastructure, and the things that genuinely help people. Not automatically good - a tool with an obvious use is a tool that will also get a bad one.
Where it sits
1950 1950-1999 · 1950 1999
Provenance · 1 source record(s)
- unverifiedNo specific claim is recorded against this source. The record is a pointer to the work in general; the entry's own prose is the argument and is not sourced line by line.Rubin et al., 1985
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