Contact Via Other Media
In addition to work on the parasocial contact hypothesis, additional research has examined the effects of exposure to characters in children's literature, for instance, using Wright et al.'s extended contact idea. Other work has examined whether online interaction has similar effects as direct face-to-face interaction. Some attempts have been made to provide integrated frameworks for examining intergroup contact across a wide variety of mediated contexts and discussing how the process might differ from direct face-to-face contact
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