Title: Immersed in media
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.
Subjects: Technological innovations, Telepresence, Mass media, Television, psychological aspects, Telematics, Médias, Innovations, Téléprésence, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Media Studies, Informationsteknik, Sociala aspekter, Telepräsenz, Massenmedien, Mass media, technological aspects