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temporarily expanding the boundaries of the self: a standalone construct

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Entertainment media

people enter story worlds partly to escape the limits of their own identity and experience other selves for a while.

In entertainment media, temporarily expanding the boundaries of the self refers to people enter story worlds partly to escape the limits of their own identity and experience other selves for a while. This meaning comes from Slater (2014) in Journal of Communication.[1]

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experience4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs escape2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs identity6 fields · 14 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Slater, M. D., Johnson, B. K., Cohen, J., Comello, M. L. G., & Ewoldsen, D. R. (2014). Temporarily Expanding the Boundaries of the Self: Motivations for Entering the Story World and Implications for Narrative Effects: Temporarily Expanded Boundaries of the Self. Journal of Communication, 64(3), 439-455. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcom.12100

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