Mutual understanding

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 of mutual understanding.

Sample defintion(s):

Savicki and Kelley (2000) in Biocca, Harms, & Burgoon, (2003):
“[S]ocial presence; that is, the ability to make one's self known under conditions of low media richness”