[Day 3 was spent in meetings, and PCM Business Meeting]
9:00 AM-10:15 AM, Agate B+C (Regency 3), Parasocial Relationships and/or Fan Engagement, Standard Paper Session, Popular Media & Culture, Chairs: Andrew Ledbetter, Texas Christian U
The Character’s Curse of When a Character Follows an Actor: Introducing and Understanding the Phenomenon of Character Baggage Caleb G. Hubbard; Lindsey Meeks
- Character baggage as the association (ongoing relationship) with characters
- Parasocial relationships: across multiple roles, across multiple mediums
- Research participants n=249, results suggest the top three characters emerged
- Positive character baggage is stronger than negative
- Impacts on how we relate with characters and personal sense of self (?)
Parasocial Relationship, Loneliness, and Well-Being Among Older Adults in Korea Y. Kim; R.J. Lee-Won
- Parasocial relationships with favourite characters can improve one’s self wellness
- Parasocial relationship: the illusion of meaningful emotional bond with a media figure (Hartmann, 2016)
- n=934, South Koreans over the age of 60, analysed against the Social and Emotional Loneliness Scale for Adults
- Theory implications: loneliness is a complex construct through multidimensional construct
- Practical implications: media based interventions can be used to mitigate loneliness and enhance well-being among older adults
A Semantic Network Analysis of Symbolic Convergence and Fan Engagement With Taylor Swift’s Songs Andrew Ledbetter
- Why? economic impact, cultural impact. Communicative accomplishment (songs, social media)
- Symbolic convergence theory (Bormann et al., 2001) – inside knowledge, shared group identity
- Quant: Semantic network analysis on song lyrics, co-occurance matrix (common words), songs can be connected if they share 13 words, creates four song groups
- Qual: Fantasy theme analysis: characters, plots, scenes, sanctioning agent – construct a rhetorical vision of the universe
- Regression to examine song popularity, expert opinion, social media conversation (Twitter:17,000)
- Group 1: heroes and villains; Group 2: Longing and Regret; Group 3: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary; Group 4: Empowered Voice
- Published article here
10:30 AM-11:45 AM, Aspen Ballroom (Grand 2), HIGH-DENSITY: From Data to Design: Methods for Understanding Adolescents’ Social Media Ecosystems, High-Density Paper Session, Children, Adolescents and Media, Chairs: Samantha Vigil, U of California, Davis
A Seat at the Design Table: A Mixed-Method Examination of Impacts of the Co-Design Process on Black and Latino Youth Perspectives on Social Media L.J. Arnold; L. Xie; K. Fischer; K. Jang; R. Stevens
- Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR)- inquiry based, participatory, transformational, design justice
- n=14 13-17 year old, use IG regularly
- Recruiting, 4 X co-design workshops, final showcase. in -depth interviews, weekly journaling
- Both positive and negative metal health, users worried about cyberbullying, but also noted positive connection aspects (creativity, connection)
Who Is Posting What on Social Media? Insights From Adolescents’ Data Donations in Three European Countries L. Schreurs; I. Boeckxstaens; A.Y. Lee; T. Tabruyn; S.X. Liu; K. Fitzgerald; J. Hancock; L. Vandenbosch
- I sadly missed the start of this presentation, but the final call was that there is much research about young people and their mental health, but young people rarely talk about it.
- The call suggested we would be better understanding the impact of platforms and the cultures – I think our research addresses this ‘gap’ perfectly.
Navigating the Challenges and Opportunities of Using Ecological Momentary Assessment Methods to Study Social Media Use in Adolescent Samples J. Shawcroft; D.P. Cingel; S. Vigil; A.L. Snyder
- EMA – longtitudinal social media research that prompts data collection of participants, group down not person up
Prioritizing Places Over Features: Studying Personal Social Media Ecosystems in the Context of the Personal Social Media Ecosystem Framework Michael C. Carter; N. Powell; M. Rich; D. Bickham
- [sidenote – Children and Adolescent research seems to assume all young people are experiencing strong mental health issues. I’m not sure that’s the case and often this work feels disconnected form young people – I suspect there is an opportunity to connect the more social science approaches with stronger qualitative research (with young people about young people)].
- Dynamics of Change (digital macrosystems), expand the literature on this approach
- top down and bottom up pressures: platform envelopment as a means of shifting user behaviour.
Identifying Profiles of Tween and Teen Media Users: A Differential Susceptibility Approach to the 2019 and 2021 Waves of the Common Sense Census C. Sada Garibay; M.A. Lapierre; L. Dajches
- Differential Susceptibility to media effects model: susceptibilities > media use > response
- Latent Profile Analysis – check out explanation here
- They discovered two new profiles of youth media users compared between 2019 and 2021
12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Agate B+C (Regency 3), Explorations of K-Pop, Standard Paper Session, Popular Media & Culture, Chairs: Yongliang Gao, Communication University of China
Weaponized K-Pop in China: The Analysis of Chinese Nationalism Discourse in K-Pop Cultural Appropriation and Humiliating China Disputes From 2020 to 2024 Z. Wang; C. Zhou; Y. Huang; Z. Yang
- Nationalism in Weibo – content analysis of K-pop celebrity disputes
- Using K-Pop in Chinese videos and claiming elements to be their own
- global popularity – check events in Weibo – collect data across 3-4 days after last appearance limit 50 pages max – 20,000 comments data corpus
- Coding scheme: based on levels of offence across three levels: none, moderate, high offence
Defining Fandom Culture: How K-Pop Fans NegoPlace in Distinct Public Spaces S. James; S. Lee
- BTS tour of Las Vegas – paint the town purple
- Frames as prosumers (convergence), boundary work (authenticity, legitimacy, fandom utopia),
- Dual ethnography (Korean in America/American in South Korea)
Mediated by Light: The Dazzling History of the K-Pop Light Stick as Cultural Medium A. Kim
- The way that a particular kind of technology impacts on the communication – fans and artists
- James Carey (1989) Cultural Approach towards Communication– transmissive and ritualistic
- The Social Life of Things, Appadurai
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