Jesse Fox

This researcher studies how digital technologies—social media, dating apps, video games, and virtual environments—shape human relationships, self-image, and social behavior. Work spans topics like online romantic relationship formation, parasocial attachments (one-sided emotional bonds people form with media figures), objectification in social media images, and prosocial/antisocial conduct in online gaming communities. Note that some publications in the provided record (e.g., cancer research abstracts) appear unrelated to this core research area and may reflect a name-matching issue in the data source.

Publication output has been relatively steady but modest over the last five years, averaging about 4 papers per year, down from a higher peak (12 in 2019) earlier in the decade.

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