Parasocial Interaction is a psychological relationship experienced by an audience in their encounters with mass media, Viewers or listeners come to consider media personalities as friends, despite having no or limited interactions with them. for example if you feel like you're one of the gang while watching the characters from Friends spend time together at the Central Perk.
Clay Shirky argues that audiences in today’s online age are no longer passive consumers of media content. How far is this true of online audiences ? An active audience engages, interprets and responds to a media text in different ways and is capable of challenging the ideas encoded in it. A passive audience is more likely to accept the messages encoded in a media text without challenge and are therefore more likely to be directly affected by the messages. Prosumer= someone who both consumes and produces media what is the theory? For the first time young audiences are watching less TV due to the fast, interactive media that they have become exposed to The most important part of networking is our access to each other- social media allows us to be connected to each other Social media allows us to not only share media but create it, the lack of quality in a lot of posts allows us to make it quickly and share it quickly as well, the fact that it is ...