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Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Thom Kennon — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:05:51 -0000

This is rich, JP --- the academic made real and applicable. As in our tweet exchange today, dunderhead poseurs at Forrester need to stop listening to themselves long enough to check back into the constantly evolving fabric of media with all of its meanings, applications, nuance & expressions.

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Erkka Peitso — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:37:23 -0000

The NY Times writes about "ghost Twittering".

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Henri Weijo — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:27:19 -0000

good read, and will definitely spy on those studies you posted =)

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Stefan Constantinescu — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 10:09:07 -0000

that's always the case with any technology, the unintended uses.

you think the guy who invented SMS expected people in Africa to setup bank accounts with it?

you think the guy who invented the combustion engine expected it to power airplanes?

the most interesting twitter usage, to this day, for me personally at least, was that woman who wore a device while she was pregnant so that every time the baby inside her kicked, he tweeted.

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Jussi — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:37:26 -0000

I like your analogue with Idols and other similar reality show where people can have limited interaction, like SMS-voting.

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Jussi — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:36:26 -0000

Happy to hear that you found it interesting. It is also quite interesting to see how people are using social media services. like Twitter, for totally different purposes. The new use cases are usually also a surprise for the developers.

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Jussi — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:32:04 -0000

I tried to dig up some research done on this field, but it seems there hasn't been much activity. On late 90s there has been some uses and gratifications research done for webpages, but web has come a long way after that.

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

DaGood — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:36:36 -0000

Great stuff. Definitely Twitter is being used by many celebrities as a push medium with little real interactivity.

I think it is somewhat the same in mass media: The most successful show of recent times has been American Idol. It is part passive experience and part user-engagement voting thing.

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Stefan Constantinescu — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:20:36 -0000

thanks for getting into the physoclogical reasons people use Twitter, and for the sources on the bottom so i can look up some more information about these new terms i learned today.

Re: Parasocial relationships and Twitter

Aku — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:51:01 -0000

Someone should really do some uses and gratifications research on social media!

Also the notion of parasocial relationships is quite intereresting. Interestingly people can use the same medium (Twitter) in completely different ways (their motives being differen too, I suppose). That is not the case with traditional mass media.