Immersed in Media: Telepresence in Everyday Life

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.

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.