Understanding audience involvement: Conceptualizing and manipulating identification and transportation

Two central avenues for audience involvement in entertainment are identification and transportation. This study conceptually and empirically differentiated between these processes by manipulating information about the hero of a film and about the plot in order to affect the ways viewers respond to t...

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Published in:Poetics (Amsterdam) 2010-08, Vol.38 (4), p.402-418
Main Authors: Tal-Or, Nurit, Cohen, Jonathan
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