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spir-13927	Depounti, Iliana; Saukko, Paula	‘YOU CANNOT EXPECT SUCH VALIDATION IN REAL LIFE:’ HISTORICAL CONTINUITIES AND CHANGE IN WOMEN’S ROMANCING WITH AI CHATBOT REPLIKA	2025.0	5	.pdf	application/pdf	1907	121	51	While the idea is not new, since Radway suggested that the Smithton women in the 1980s found romance reading ‘therapeutic, a tranquilizer and tension reliever’ (Radway, 1984), there is a change from ‘the therapeutic’ as an abstract concept to a more organized experience of self-help in female users of contemporary media and in this case, AI companion chatbots. However, it has also been pointed out that many women do not seek to change the world but simply aim to survive in or bear with it (Berlant, 2008).	cache/spir-13927.pdf	txt/spir-13927.txt