Immersed in media
Subtitle: telepresence in everyday life
By: edited by Cheryl Campanella Bracken & Paul D. Skalski.
Contributors: Bracken, Cheryl Campanella.; Skalski, Paul D.
Series: Routledge communication series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780415993395; 9780415993401; 9780203892336
Subjects: Mass media -- Technological innovations; Telepresence
Description: "Immersed in Media highlights the increasing significance of telepresence in the media field. With contributions representing diverse disciplines, this volume delves into the topic through considerations of popular media types and their effects on users. Chapters in the work explain how the experience of presence can be affected by media technologies, including television, video games, film, and the Internet. They also discuss how presence experience mediates or moderates commonly studied media effects, such as enjoyment, persuasion, and aggression. These discussions are accompanied by overviews of the current state of presence research and its future. Ultimately, this work establishes the crucial role of telepresence in gaining a complete understanding of the uses and effects of popular media technologies."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Popular media and telepresence : an introduction / Cheryl Campanella Bracken & Paul D. Skalski; title: Telepresence and film / Kimberly Neuendorf & Evan Lieberman; title: Telepresence and television / Cheryl Campanella Bracken & Renée A. Botta; title: Telepresence and computers : a ghost in the machine? / David Westerman & Paul D. Skalski; title: Telepresence and video games / Ron Tamborini & Nicholas D. Bowman; title: Telepresence and persuasion / Terry Daugherty, Harsha Gangadharbatla, Laura Bright; title: Telepresence and media enjoyment / Tilo Hartmann, Christoph Klimmt & Peter Vorderer; title: Telepresence and media effects research / Paul D. Skalski, James Denny & Ashleigh K. Shelton; title: Mediated presence in the future / John A. Waterworth & Eva L. Waterworth; title: The promise and peril of telepresence / Matthew Lombard; title: Popular media and telepresence : summary and conclusion / Cheryl Campanella Bracken & Paul D. Skalski.