SOCIAL PRESENCE/TELEPRESENCE

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The definitions under this heading can involve technology or not involve technology; the phenomenon is a subjective property of an individual person; the source of the stimuli in the experience is external and/ or internal; there is either an accurate perceptioon that there is no technology involved in the experience or an inaccurate perception that technology is not involved when it is.; and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of primary interest is related to social entitites (human, electronic and otherwise).

Sample defintion(s):

Conant (1993, 1996):
"[W]idows' ongoing attachments to their deceased husbands and a sense of their presence."

Zhou (2003):
"The sense of copresence is an individual's subjective experience of being together with other people."

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