Social realism

Details:

The definitions under this heading explicitly involve technology; the phenomenon is a subjective property of an individual person; the source of the stimuli in the experience is only external (outside the body); and there is an inaccurate perceptioon that technology is not involved in the experience when it is; and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of primary interest is related to perceived realism (i.e., the correspondence between a technology-mediated experience and a similar experience not mediated by technology), specifically social aspects of experience.

Sample defintion(s):

Lombard & Ditton (1997):
"[T]he extent to which a media portrayal is [perceived as being] plausible or 'true to life' in that it reflects events that do or could occur in the nonmediated world" (Presence as realism)