As the United States moves closer to its 250th birthday next year, a local company continues defining generations and ...

Mindy Seu's latest work, 'A Sexual History of the Internet,' is a participatory lecture that intersects with a 700-page book ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship has already influenced pop culture, sports, fashion, and now the English language dictionary’s word of the year. Reportedly, the Cambridge Dictionary has ...

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s relationship has already influenced pop culture, sports, fashion, and now the English ...

TV was the initial cause of the phenomenon, which has been expanded and intensified with the development of social media.

“Now I’m helping keep it alive for future generations, and it’s pretty cool,” Lewis said.

The term "parasocial" dates back to 1956, when University of Chicago sociologists Donald Horton and Richard Wohl "observed television viewers engaged in 'para-social' relationships with on-screen ...

Cambridge Dictionary has named parasocial as the Word of the Year for 2025. The year was marked by interest in the one-sided parasocial relationships that people form with celebrities, influencers and ...

The dictionary said searches for its Word of the Year spiked as online celebrity moments intensified public interest in ...

Cambridge Dictionary has named its word of the year for 2025, alighting on “parasocial,” used to describe a connection that people feel with someone they don’t know, or with an artificial intelligence ...

Merriam-Webster, the country’s oldest dictionary publisher which is headquartered in Springfield, just released an updated ...

If you look up “microaggression” or “sheeple” or “safe space” on the website of the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the entries won’t have a byline—but their author is Stefan Fatsis. A longtime journalist ...