Presumed intimacy: para-social interaction in media, society and celebrity culture

Abstract

Living with statistical men and women -- Chimerical risk management -- The shockwaves of trauma -- The lost neighbour proposition and the collateral damage problem -- Horizontal frontierism: the juggernaut of character -- The accentuation of personality -- Vertical frontierism: four case studies -- Cracks in the mirror -- The gestural economy -- Institutional and counter-institutional gestural economies -- Nuda veritas