SOCIAL TELEPRESENCE

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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).

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.”

Nass & Steuer (1993):
"[I]nteractions with technologies that possess social characteristicis may best be thought of as phenomena in the domain of interpersonal communication."

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