Bernhard Schieber

Media persona (parasocial interaction)

Knowledge

A media persona is the stable public presence through which a performer becomes recognizable and seemingly available to audiences. Repeated encounters build familiarity with that presentation, without making it reliable evidence of the person’s motives, sincerity, or moral character.

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Key concept

Key concepts are the working vocabulary of the field: the terms that the models and tools rely on and that a decision about communication has to use precisely. Each entry defines the term and sends you to the brief or the self-guided audit where it is put to work.

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Concepts & Constructs

Delimits an entity, property, relation or condition relevant to understanding communication. Its principal contribution is to clarify what something means, which features constitute it, and how to recognize or distinguish it.

Executive Insight BriefParasocial Interaction: Build Familiarity Without Pretending to Know the AudienceRead the brief →

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