A 'culture of celebrity'began to emerge in the twentieth century, profoundly impacting the
social world. Recent years have seen the publication of an increasing wealth of literature …

Fans used to be seen as an overly obsessed fraction of the audience. In the last few
decades, shifts in media technology and production have instead made fandom a central …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that influence mainland
Chinese film tourists' behavioural intention in accepting an augmented reality (AR) feature …

Social media has opened an avenue for reciprocal interactions between celebrities and their
fans, encouraging individuals with a tendency to become obsessed with celebrities to …

This research explores the effect of celebrity components–entertainment, attractiveness,
intense attachment, and celebrity-product congruence–on consumers' value transfer and …

Objectives Research into adolescent mental health has tended to focus on primary
attachment relationships. However, the effect of secondary attachment relationships and the …

This article investigates the link between media coverage of celebrity suicides and the
nation's suicide rate. The instrumental variable regression is applied to suicide data from …

Past literature mostly focused on fictitious brand and celebrities to understand their
relationship with purchase intention. However, there is a recent call for studies to look at …

Parasocial interactions (PSIs; one-sided communication imagined with a media figure) in
adolescence and imaginative activities in childhood, such as imaginary companions and …

Presence and copresence in Goffman's sense are some of the main building blocks of
fandom groups in online spaces. This article provides a definition of both especially …