PARASOCIALIZE

An event or moment · 2023 · Television

The finale that moved the schedule

A soap opera ends after decades and national broadcast schedules were rearranged around it.

Application

Not an attachment to a character but to a piece of shared civic infrastructure, and grief measured academically in the same weeks. It is the clearest evidence that parasocial bonds can attach to a place, not a person.

SOURCE

ABC News, 2023

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