Abstract Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a tingling, static-like sensation in response to specific triggering audio and visual stimuli. Within recent years, ASMR has mostly been associated with videos on YouTube (technologically mediated ASMR) dedicated to make the users “tingle”, relax, and feel at ease. In this article, I explore the ambiguity of technology in relation to the ASMR experience and theoretically investigate how viewer-listeners might struggle to obtain an intimate and parasocial interaction in a technologically mediated ASMR context. The article introduces four types of intimacies as well as theoretical concepts of mediated intimacy, immediacy, and parasocial interaction, and I discuss these intimacies and concepts in relation to illustrative comments by some of the pacesetting power users of ASMR.

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ASMR 体验中技术的模糊性：YouTube 用户评论中的四种亲密关系和挣扎

摘要 自主感觉经络反应 (ASMR) 是对特定触发音频和视觉刺激的一种刺痛、类似静态的感觉。近年来，ASMR 主要与 YouTube 上的视频（以技术为媒介的 ASMR）相关联，这些视频致力于让用户“兴奋”、放松和放松。在本文中，我探讨了技术与 ASMR 体验相关的模糊性，并从理论上研究了观众-听众如何在以技术为媒介的 ASMR 环境中难以获得亲密和准社会的互动。这篇文章介绍了四种类型的亲密关系以及中介亲密关系、即时性和准社会互动的理论概念，我讨论了这些亲密关系和概念，并结合一些 ASMR 领先的高级用户的说明性评论。