Category Research studies

Parasocial Interaction Does Not Function as a Relationship Mediator between the Influencer’s Online Content and the Adolescent’s Prosocial Moral Reasoning and Behaviour

ABSTRACT:Parasocial interaction (PSI) is a term describing an audience’s false belief of ​​a social experience with a media persona. Among adolescents, influencers are the most respected media personas. Through social networking sites (SNS), they act as models representing specific value…

Philosophical Meta-Story about The Little Prince as a Synergy of Book and Film Industries: On the Possibilities of Film Adaptation of Literature for Children and Youth

ABSTRACT:The present study explores the ways in which children’s and young adult literature is adapted to film, as these stories allow the autonomous world of childhood, distinctly different from the adult perspective, to emerge. At the same time, however, literary…