Chapter 13

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1. Visit the NPR website below and listen to the program “Developing Fictional Relationships” on parasocial relationships. Listen for direct and indirect tie-ins to what Duck and McMahan have to say in the chapter about these relationships. Make notes as you listen to get a solid handle on how these relationships develop and how we view them in everyday life.
2. Using the Internet Wayback Machine, track the development of a cell phone company's website and analyze the shifts in the way the company or organization attempted to portray relationships in connection with the development of cell phones.
3. Visit the site titled “Technological Determinism: How Technology Causes Social Change in Africa.” As you read, think about how this article and the tie-in to Africa might apply to other culture or maybe did apply to the larger United States at some time.