Parasocial

Parasocial relationships are imagined relationships with celebrities and media characters. Learn how parasocial relationships develop and whether they are healthy.

ParasocialPower Distribution law was part of LongTail theory in the early days of the Internet and my own Cultural Diffusion. “Parasocial relationships” are a modern transmutation of Power Law. The perils of P. Diddy are a present-day paradigm of the pitfalls of Parasocialism. What Is a Parasocial Relationship?Parasocial relationshipsbrowardbroward

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I published “The Cultural Diffusion” on my website in 2004. The Longtail theory [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_tail] was a prominent idea then, that the transition from monolithic, one-way communication systems to granular, interactive systems would create small but profitable niche markets. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----------------------------

This is a semantic model for quantifying relationships. It was a sudden epiphany during an nine-hour drive from Boulder to Kansas City over Thanksgiving weekend. I’d hoped to turn it into working software but my employer was more interested in converting me to Jesus and didn’t perceive its value. And

Over twenty years ago I created this concept which may finally be coming into its own, like the Vertical Web, the Cultural Diffusion and the Gold-backed Digital Currency. The S-Curve: A graph showing the rate of growth of an entity like a business, animal population, etc. It has three important