Autor/-in: Johanna L. Degen

Dr. Johanna L. Degen is a social and media psychologist affiliated with the Europa-Universität Flensburg, Germany. She is studying relationships, intimacy, and sexuality with a focus on the meanings of digitalization for subjects and society. Besides academia, she is a couple and family counselor and sex therapist. In this book, she combines insights from both world -empirical findings, the current state of research, and observations from clinical practice- to theorize contemporary parasociality and its evolving significance.