Social actor within medium

Details:

The definitions under this heading explicitly involve technology; the phenomenon is an objective property of a mode of communication, i.e., a technological medium; and the aspect of the phenonenon that is of primary interest is related to social entitites (human, electronic and otherwise), specifically social entities who appear within media.

Sample defintion(s):

Zhao (2003):
"Corporeal telecopresence is a form of human co-location in which both individuals are present in person at their local sites, but they are located in each other's electronic proximity rather than physical proximity. ... "