Download or read book Parasocial Politics written by Jason Zenor and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasocial Politics explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between the real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies analyzes how actual consumers read the text and the overt and covert political messages encoded in popular culture.