[Air-L] Social Presence Theory - latest studies?

[Christian Nelson]

That's right, except that the earliest research in the tradition I  
mentioned was about TV phenomena, if memory serves. Lombard and  
Ditton's piece should be checked to confirm this. And I wouldn't be  
surprised to learn that they're now looking at the same issues of   
(tele)presence (they use both words) they've uncovered to analyze  
mobile presence. But clearly, they aren't the only people looking at  
mobile presence.
--Christian

On Dec 8, 2008, at 4:24 PM, Marcela Musgrove wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Andrew Herman <aherman at wlu.ca> wrote:
>> I am very interested in this thread but also find the subject a bit  
>> befuddling.  Aren't almost all interpretive social theories of the  
>> 20th century (symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, ,  
>> ethnomethdology, etc.) theories of social presence? There have been  
>> volumes upon volumes of work rooted in these traditions dealing  
>> with cmc sociality and identity. Or is the subject here a new and  
>> coherently distinctive kind of social theory that is specific to  
>> virtual environments?
>>
>
> I think there are several veins of research labelled presence. The
> folk in presence research group that Christian referred to seem to
> come from more of an experimental psych tradition and did a lot with
> VR and measurement of "being there" , now moving on to other virtual
> environments. This is apparently different kind of presence from
> "mobile presence" and im applications...
>
> Marcela
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