It can be painful to learn that a beloved celebrity doesn't share our political views. Here's how media users attempt to reconcile the resulting cognitive dissonance.
Many media users form parasocial relationships with celebrities, seeing them as beloved "super-peers."
Conversely, where we stand on some of the more controversial political issues tend to be intertwined more closely with individuals’ core values and moralof alienating some of their fans. Yet some celebrities do speak out.
Only when the political issue is of great importance—and the initial levels of the parasocial relationship are low—is it easy for the media users to"break up" with the celebrity. Some will still be able to separate the art from the artist, while others attempt to focus solely on the entertainment value of the celebrity while ignoring them as a person—or as Fox News's anchor Laura Ingraham said in response to LeBron James’s political commentary: “Shut up and dribble.”Gabriel, S.
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