Perceived salience of others

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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), specifically a medium user's perception of the salience of other people and relationships with them.

Sample defintion(s):

Short, Williams, Christie (1976) in Biocca, Harms, & Burgoon (2003):
“The degree of salience of the other person in the interaction and the consequent salience of the interpersonal relationships…it is a subjective quality of the communications medium…(p. 65); “a single dimension representing a cognitive synthesis of all the factors” (p. 65); “attitudinal dimension of the user, a ‘mental set’ towards the medium” (p. 65); “it is a phenomenological variable…affected not simply by the transmission of single nonverbal cues, but by whole constellations of cues which affect the ‘apparent distance’ of the other.” (p. 157)

Jung & Lee (2004):
"Lee (2004) defines social presence as “a psychological state in which virtual (para-authentic or artificial) actors are experienced as actual social actors in either sensory or nonsensory ways.”"