scholarly journals Presence, flow, and narrative absorption: an interdisciplinary theoretical exploration with a new spatiotemporal integrated model based on predictive processing

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federico Pianzola ◽  
Giuseppe Riva ◽  
Fabrizia Mantovani ◽  
Karin Kukkonen
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Media Design ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
The Media

Presence, flow, narrative absorption, immersion, transportation, and similar phenomena are studied in many different disciplines, mostly in relation to mediated experiences (books, film, VR, games). Moreover, since real, virtual, or fictional agents are often involved, concepts like identification and state empathy are often linked to engaging media use. Through a scoping review we identify similarities in the wording of various questionnaire items conceived to measure different phenomena, categorize items into the most relevant psychological aspects, and use this categorization to propose an interdisciplinary systematization. Then, based on a framework of embodied predictive processing we present a new cognitive model of presence-related phenomena for mediated and non-mediated experiences, integrating spatial and temporal aspects and also considering the role of the media design. Key processes described within the model are: selective attention, enactment of intention, and interoception.

scholarly journals Presence, flow, and narrative absorption: an interdisciplinary theoretical exploration with a new spatiotemporal integrated model based on predictive processing

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Federico Pianzola ◽  
Giuseppe Riva ◽  
Karin Kukkonen ◽  
Fabrizia Mantovani
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Media Design ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
The Difference

Presence, flow, narrative absorption, immersion, transportation, and similar subjective phenomena are studied in many different disciplines, mostly in relation to mediated experiences (books, film, VR, games). Moreover, since real, virtual, or fictional agents are often involved, concepts like identification and state empathy are often linked to engaging media use. Based on a scoping review that identified similarities in the wording of various questionnaire items conceived to measure different phenomena, we categorize items into the most relevant psychological aspects and use this categorization to propose an interdisciplinary systematization. Then, based on a framework of embodied predictive processing, we present a new cognitive model of presence-related phenomena for mediated and non-mediated experiences, integrating spatial and temporal aspects and also considering the role of fiction and media design. Key processes described within the model are: selective attention, enactment of intentions, and interoception. We claim that presence is the state of perceived successful agency of an embodied mind able to correctly enact its predictions. The difference between real-life and simulated experiences (“book problem,” “paradox of fiction”) lays in the different precision weighting of exteroceptive and interoceptive signals.

scholarly journals Presence, flow, and narrative absorption: an interdisciplinary theoretical exploration with a new spatiotemporal integrated model based on predictive processing

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Federico Pianzola ◽  
Giuseppe Riva ◽  
Karin Kukkonen ◽  
Fabrizia Mantovani
Keyword(s):  
Selective Attention ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Cognitive Model ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Integrated Model ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Media Design ◽  
Temporal Aspects ◽  
The Difference

Presence, flow, narrative absorption, immersion, transportation, and similar subjective phenomena are studied in many different disciplines, mostly in relation to mediated experiences (books, film, VR, games). Moreover, since real, virtual, or fictional agents are often involved, concepts like identification and state empathy are often linked to engaging media use. Based on a scoping review which identified similarities in the wording of various questionnaire items conceived to measure different phenomena, we categorize items into the most relevant psychological aspects, and use this categorization to propose an interdisciplinary systematization. Then, based on a framework of embodied predictive processing, we present a new cognitive model of presence-related phenomena for mediated and non-mediated experiences, integrating spatial and temporal aspects and also considering the role of fiction and media design. Key processes described within the model are: selective attention, enactment of intentions, and interoception. We claim that presence is the state of perceived successful agency of an embodied mind able to correctly enact its predictions. The difference between real-life and simulated experiences (“book problem,” “paradox of fiction”) lays in the different precision weighing of exteroceptive and interoceptive signals.

Social Media Use Among Olympians and Sport Journalists in Hungary

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-199
Author(s):  
Agnes Kovacs ◽  
Tamas Doczi ◽  
Dunja Antunovic
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Media ◽  
Hungarian Case ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into

The Olympic Games are among the most followed events in the world, so athletes who participate there are exceptionally interesting for the media. This research investigated Olympians’ social media use, sport journalists’ attitudes about Olympians’ social media use, and the role of social media in the relationship between Olympians and sport journalists in Hungary. The findings suggest that most Hungarian Olympians do not think that being on social media is an exceptionally key issue in their life, and a significant portion of them do not have public social media pages. However, sport journalists would like to see more information about athletes on social media platforms. The Hungarian case offers not only a general understanding of the athlete–journalist relationship, and the role of social media in it, but also insight into the specific features of the phenomenon in a state-supported, hybrid sport economy.

Traumatization, Not Habituation: The Impact of a Long Lockdown on Mental Health and the Role of Media Use (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Grygarová ◽  
Petr Adámek ◽  
Veronika Juríčková ◽  
Jiří Horáček ◽  
Eduard Bakštein ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Late Phase ◽  
Anxiety And Depression ◽  
Continuous Exposure ◽  
Czech Population ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Impact ◽  
News Use

BACKGROUND Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Czech population experienced a second lockdown lasting for about half a year, restricting free movement, and imposing social isolation. It is not known whether the impact of the long lockdown resulted in habituation to the adverse situation or in the traumatization of the Czech population, and whether the media and its specific use contributed to these processes. OBJECTIVE This study aimed at elucidating the effect of the long lockdown on the mental health of the Czech population, and the role of exposure to COVID-19 news reports and specific forms of media news use in mental health. METHODS We conducted two consecutive surveys in the early (November 2020) and late (March/April 2021) phases of the nationwide lockdown on the same nationally representative group of Czech adults (N = 1,777) participating in a longitudinal panel study. RESULTS Our findings show that the self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression increased in the second observed period, whereby confirming the negative effect of the pandemic lockdown as it unfolded, suggesting that restrictive measures and continuous exposure to a collective stressor did not result in strengthening of resilience but rather in ongoing traumatization. The results also suggest a negative role of the media’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in mental health during the early, and particularly late phase of the lockdown. Furthermore, we found several risk and protective factors of specific media news use. The media practice in news consumption connected to social media use was the strongest predictor of exacerbated mental health symptoms, particularly in the late phase of the lockdown. Also, news media use characterized by internalization of information learned from the news, as well as negative attitudes towards media news, were associated with higher levels of anxiety and depression. On the other hand, the use of infotainment, together with an in-depth and contextual style of reading news articles, were related to improvement of mental health. CONCLUSIONS Our study showed that the long lockdown resulted in traumatization rather than habituation, and in more pronounced effects (both negative and positive) of media use in mental health.

Buses and Ballots: The Role of Media Images in a Local Election

1994 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald M. Kosicki ◽  
Lee B. Becker ◽  
Eric S. Fredin
Keyword(s):  
Media Use ◽  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Special Interests ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Local Election ◽  
The Media

This study examines the role of media in a local election using media use and public perceptions of media and their interactions as key independent variables. Some support is found for the notion that media do not exert direct effects on behavioral outcomes, but rather this process depends on how people perceive the media they use in terms of their ties to special interests in the community and the interaction of this perception with media use.

scholarly journals Assessing the role of media in crisis management in Afghanistan: A case study of crisis caused by coronavirus outbreak

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ragheb Eftikhari
Keyword(s):  
Media Use ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Statistical Population ◽  
The Media ◽  
High Level ◽  
Control And Management ◽  
The Relationship

This study evaluated the relationship between media use and citizens' awareness of coronavirus. The method of this research was quantitative-survey, and the data collection tool was a questionnaire. The sample size was 383 people and determined using the Cochran's formula. The questionnaire was distributed online and conducted within 30 days from the 3 rd April to the 3 rd May of 2020. SPSS software was used to analyze the data. The statistical population of the study was Facebook users. In the present study, the independent variable was media use and the dependent variable was the level of public awareness in three dimensions; awareness, speed of information and fading of traditional beliefs have been measured. Findings showed that the media, especially Facebook, due to the characteristics of availability, decentralization, time and frequency, as well as the role of awareness and information in crisis control and management has been impressed in Afghanistan. Based on the results, the first and second hypotheses of the research that there is a relationship between access to media and high level of awareness as well as the relationship between access to media and increasing the speed of information are confirmed, but the third hypothesis due to the low intensity of the relationship between its variables was somewhat ruled out.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN SHAPING THE IMAGE OF A POLITICIAN

World Science ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (11(51)) ◽  
pp. 34-37
Author(s):  
Vladyslav Buinitskyi ◽  
Anatolii Yakovets
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Creation

This article discusses the ability of the media to influence the political culture and consciousness of society, in particular through the creation of stereotypical symbolic constructs such as political images and political myths. The features and the role of each type of media in the formation of the images of political leaders and parties are presented, as well as some techniques that the media use in the process of updating political images are presented. It is known that the main goal of the media in the process of constructing political images is the creation and dissemination of political myths. The article discusses in detail four main topics from all possible plots of political myths: “the myth of the conspiracy”, “the myth of the golden age”, “the myth of the hero-savior”, “the myth of unity”.

scholarly journals MEDIA PUBLIKASI HUMAS DALAM PENDIDIKAN

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-149
Author(s):  
Hannah Mahfuzhah ◽  
Anshari Anshari
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Good Relationship ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media

The effort to build good relations with the media is one way to make the institution's image better. Media use activities are carried out to influence the public to achieve organizational goals. Mass media is usually used by organizations or educational institutions to build the image of the institution.In order to be able to perform its functions properly, the role of public relations must be carried out by competent people in their fields. A publicist must be smart in choosing publications, so that the intent to be conveyed to the public can be appropriate and on target. Although the public relations and mass media have a mutually beneficial relationship, there are some things that need to be considered so that especially for educational institutions that have the aim of publishing educational institutions so that a good relationship between public relations and mass media is maintained.

scholarly journals Introducing the Media Use Behaviour Conceptual Framework

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Parry ◽  
Daniel B. le Roux
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Reciprocal Relations ◽  
Communications Media ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Media

In an increasingly digitally connected world researchers have sought to understand behaviour associated with digital communications media. We argue that a more consistent conceptualisation of media use behaviour and its etiological foundations is a necessary basis for research in this regard to progress. To this end, through the adoption of an affordances approach, we propose the Media Use Behaviour Conceptual Framework to describe the reciprocal relations between users (described in relation to personal characteristics and cognitive factors), the situations (consisting of social, physical, and technological dimensions) in which they use media, their media use behaviour, and the outcomes (both realised and expected) of this behaviour. This framework seeks to integrate the behaviourist and cognitivist approaches to action and, additionally, acknowledges the socially constructed and deterministic role of media in action. It is argued that such a framework will provide a useful basis upon which researchers can consider various individual differences in observed media use behaviours and associated outcomes and, importantly, understand why particular media use behaviours occur.

scholarly journals Symbolic Spaces of Everyday Life

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stina Bengtsson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Media Use ◽  
The Media ◽  
Symbolic Construction ◽  
Social Interactionist ◽  
Material Space ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
At Home

Abstract This article presents an analysis of the role of the media in the symbolic construction of work and leisure at home. Dealing with individuals who represent a post-industrial and cultural labour market and who work mainly at home, the analysis focuses upon the ritual transformations of everyday life and the role of the media within it. Leaning on social interactionist Erwin Goffman and his concepts of regions and frames, as well as a dimension of the materiality of culture, this analysis combines a perspective on media use as ritual, transformations in everyday life and the organization of material space From this perspective, the discussion penetrates the symbolic dimension of media use in defining borders of behaviour and activities in relation to work and leisure at home.

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