Richard Wohl

Richard Wohl (1921 – November 15, 1957) was an American sociologist who, together with Donald Horton, coined the term parasocial interactions. They introduced the term in their influential 1956 paper, where they defined it as a sense of friendship or relationship that viewers form with media personae. He died of cancer in 1957.

References

• Horton, Donald; R. Richard Wohl (1956). "Mass communication and para-social interaction: Observations on intimacy at a distance". Psychiatry. 19 (3): 215–229. doi:10.1080/00332747.1956.11023049. PMID 13359569. republished Archived 2023-01-03 at the Wayback Machine in Particip@tions 3 (1) ISSN 1749-8716
• Strauss, A. L. (March 1958). "In Memoriam: R. Richard Wohl, 1921-1957". The American Journal of Sociology. 63 (5): 533–534. doi:10.1086/222304. JSTOR 2773080. S2CID 144604708.

External links

• The dictionary definition of parasocial at Wiktionary