Perceived co-location (shared space/we are together)

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 social entitites (human, electronic and otherwise), specifically perceptions that one is with other(s) in a shared space.

Sample defintion(s):

Sallnas, Rassmus-grohn et al. (2000) in Biocca, Harms, & Burgoon (2003):
“Social presence refers to the feeling of being socially present with another person at a remote location.”

Lombard & Ditton (1997):
"'We are together,' in which two (or more) communicators are transported together to a place that they share. " (see also Transportation)