{"id":5500,"date":"2025-04-27T12:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T04:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/?p=5500"},"modified":"2025-04-27T12:17:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T04:17:13","slug":"parasocial-relationships-are-a-driving-force-behind-the-success-and-cohesion-of-online-fandom-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5500\/parasocial-relationships-are-a-driving-force-behind-the-success-and-cohesion-of-online-fandom-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Parasocial Relationships are a driving force behind the success and cohesion of online fandom communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\nAbstract:In the contemporary digital age and the transition to the Web 2.0 in which many Web platforms followed the trend of becoming participatory instead of media syndicate-like, fandoms have become participatory. In fandoms where the subject is a media figure community have become a place in which fans actively engage with the media figure, whether is through social media interaction or even content creation. This paper explores how parasocial relationships (one-way emotional relationships between <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/csm\/5500\/parasocial-relationships-are-a-driving-force-behind-the-success-and-cohesion-of-online-fandom-communities\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract:In the contemporary digital age and the transition to the Web 2.0 in which many Web platforms followed the trend of becoming participatory instead of media syndicate-like, fandoms have become participatory. In fandoms where the subject is a media figure community have become a place in which fans actively engage with the media figure, whether is through social media interaction or even content creation. This paper explores how parasocial relationships (one-way emotional relationships between &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":510,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/510"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5501,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5500\/revisions\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}