Jesse Dibble
Jesse Dibble is the first author of a 2016 paper in Human Communication Research that separates parasocial interaction from parasocial relationship and compares two ways of measuring the first. The experiment had 383 participants.
Who they are
Dibble is first author of the 2016 paper, written with Tilo Hartmann and a colleague. This page rests on that one paper. Their wider career, affiliations and other publications have not been checked against a source here, and no claim is made about them.
Key papers
Key ideas
Two ideas under one word
The paper argues that the field had blurred parasocial interaction and parasocial relationship, in how each is defined and how each is measured. It treats parasocial interaction as a within-viewing experience of mutual awareness.
The measurement experiment
Participants watched a short video of a woman who either addressed the viewer directly or did not, then completed questionnaires. The Experience of Parasocial Interaction Scale better captured the within-viewing experience. The older PSI-Scale may reflect longer-term liking or something else. The authors concluded that researchers need to choose measures more carefully.
Sources
- Dibble, J. L., Hartmann, T., & Rosaen, S. F. (2016). 'Parasocial interaction and parasocial relationship: Conceptual clarification and a critical assessment of measures.' Human Communication Research, 42(1), 21-44. doi:10.1111/hcre.12063