Immersed in Media: Telepresence in Everyday Life

by Bracken; Cheryl Campanella

• ISBN13: 9780415993401
• ISBN10: 0415993407
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-12-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Cheryl Campanella Bracken (Ph.D., Temple University) is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Cleveland State University. Her research interests include psychological processing of media content, and her work has been published in Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, PsychNogy, Media Psychology, and Journal of Communication. She is on the Board of Directors of the International Society for Presence Research. Paul D. Skalski (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Cleveland State University. His research interests include video games, new media technologies, and media effects. His work has been published in Media Psychology, Journal of Broadcasting Electronic Media Communication Research, and the book Playing Video Games: Motives Responses and Consequences. He is a charter member of the International Society for Presence Research.

Table of Contents

Figures and Tables	p. vii
Contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Preface	p. xvii
Telepresence and Entertainment Media	p. 1
Telepresence in Everyday Life: An Introduction	p. 3
Film: The Original Immersive Medium	p. 9
Telepresence and Television	p. 39
Computers and Telepresence: A Ghost in the Machine?	p. 63
Presence in Video Games	p. 87
Telepresence and Effects of Media	p. 111
Telepresence and Persuasion	p. 113
Telepresence and Media Entertainment	p. 137
Telepresence and Media Effects Research	p. 158
The Future of Telepresence	p. 181
Mediated Presence in the Future	p. 183
The Promise and Peril of Telepresence	p. 197
Popular Media and Telepresence: Future Considerations	p. 229
Author Index	p. 237
Subject Index	p. 247
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