ABSTRACT Why do we entertain ourselves with media narratives? Although the most recent answer to this question (Oliver et al., 2018) provides a far more complex understanding of entertainment use compared to earlier theorizing, it still leaves important questions unanswered. Our primary ambition here is to introduce a new theoretical perspective that may be used to explain entertainment experiences on the basis of the sociological theory of resonance (Rosa, 2018). This theory focusses on genuine, ‘vibrant’ connections individuals can have with others and with the world. Our thesis is that this form of connection resembles what in more recent theories of entertainment is labelled eudaimonic experiences. But while these eudaimonic experiences are often seen as complementing hedonic ones, we propose to categorically distinguish between the two with only regarding the hedonic dimension as entertaining and the eudaimonic one as ‘resonant’ relationship. From this point of view, media narratives are selected either for their impact on a user’s affective states or for their potential to provide a user with a resonant connection. This conceptualization not only allows to answer some of the still open questions in entertainment theory but to also include the social and historical context of entertainment use.

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为什么我们用媒体叙事来娱乐自己？娱乐体验的共振视角理论

摘要 为什么我们用媒体叙事来娱乐自己？尽管与早期的理论相比，这个问题的最新答案（Oliver 等人，2018 年）提供了对娱乐使用的复杂得多的理解，但它仍然留下了未回答的重要问题。我们在这里的主要目标是引入一种新的理论视角，可用于在共振社会学理论的基础上解释娱乐体验（Rosa，2018）。该理论侧重于个人与他人和世界之间真正、“充满活力”的联系。我们的论点是，这种联系形式类似于在最近的娱乐理论中被称为 eudaimonic 体验的东西。但是，虽然这些幸福体验通常被视为对享乐体验的补充，我们建议对两者进行明确区分，只将享乐维度视为娱乐性，而将享乐维度视为“共鸣”关系。从这个角度来看，媒体叙事的选择要么是因为它们对用户情感状态的影响，要么是因为它们有可能为用户提供共鸣。这种概念化不仅允许回答娱乐理论中一些仍然悬而未决的问题，而且还包括娱乐使用的社会和历史背景。