a weird parasocial relationship a lot of people have with him where everything wrong he does is just an oopsie
This is interesting, as there are plenty of other celebrities who have a sort of “cult of personality” like this. I could be misinformed but Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey come to mind. I wonder what kind of phenomenon causes this and if there is any psychological research behind that.
gaming, like every media has always been political
Good point! The way technology itself is designed can even be political. I’d highly recommend reading Langdon Winner’s essay Do Artifacts Have Politics? about this.
I wonder what kind of phenomenon causes this and if there is any psychological research behind that.
I never seen any research on that, but I hope there is. I’ll take a wild guess and say that it’s probably linked to both, the way internet changed how we interact with people, and the hyper-individualization of capitalism.
And thanks for the link to the essay comrade, I’ll certainly read it!
This is interesting, as there are plenty of other celebrities who have a sort of “cult of personality” like this. I could be misinformed but Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey come to mind. I wonder what kind of phenomenon causes this and if there is any psychological research behind that.
Good point! The way technology itself is designed can even be political. I’d highly recommend reading Langdon Winner’s essay Do Artifacts Have Politics? about this.
I never seen any research on that, but I hope there is. I’ll take a wild guess and say that it’s probably linked to both, the way internet changed how we interact with people, and the hyper-individualization of capitalism.
And thanks for the link to the essay comrade, I’ll certainly read it!