Not So Imaginary Interpersonal Contact With Public Figures on Social Network Sites: How Affiliative Tendency Moderates Its Effects

Communication Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-51

  Lee, Eun Ju ^a   Jang, Jeong woo ^b  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

affiliative tendency; parasocial interaction; social network sites (SNSs); social presence; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872009586     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650211431579     Document Type: Article

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