The Psychosocial Reality of Digital Travel : : Being in Virtual Places.

• Author: Tjostheim, Ingvar.
• TeilnehmendeR: Waterworth, John A.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2021.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 pages)

Table of Contents

• Intro
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• 1 Introduction
• Why Digital Travel?
• The Mind of the Digital Traveller
• A Roadmap for the Book
• References
• 2 Being Somewhere
• Introduction
• The Nature of Experiences, and of Experiences of Other Places
• The Philosophy of Perceptual Experience
• Four Philosophical Views on the Nature of Perceptual Experiences
• The Representational View
• Relationism
• Enactivism
• The Sense-data View
• Summary of the Four Theories
• Dual Process Theories and Intuitive Judgment
• The Spinozan Model of Rapid Acceptance Response
• Everyday Activities in the World: Transparency and Embodiment
• Heidegger and Modes of Engaging with the World
• Transparency
• Embodiment
• Presence and the Direct Perception Approach
• Summary and Conclusions
• References
• 3 Feeling Present in Virtual Environments
• Introduction
• Conceptualisations of Telepresence: Being Present at a Distance
• The Illusion of non-Mediation
• Pretending the Digital Is Physical
• Experiencing a Convincing Simulated Semblance (of Physical Reality)
• Telepresence and Perceptual Illusions
• Perception, Imagination and Attention
• Presence as the Feeling of Attending to a Surrounding External World
• Social Interaction and Affordances for Presence
• Interacting with Other People
• Activities in Place: The Role of Affordances
• Implications For Digital Travel
• References
• 4 Visiting Places
• Introduction
• Sense of Place
• Spaces and Places
• Human Geography and Edwards Relph's Place Theory
• Marketing and Hedonic Consumption
• Intention to Visit a Place and Word of Mouth
• Experiencing Sense of Place in a Virtual Environment
• Insights from Non-digital Travel and Tourism
• Conclusions
• References
• 5 The Reality of Digital Travel
• Introduction
• Digital Travel and Sense of Place.
• The Use of Video Games and Photo-Realism
• Creating a Sightseeing Experience in a Video Game
• A Virtual Visit to Los Angeles
• The Sightseers' Experience of Telepresence and Sense of Place
• Results-Virtual Sightseers Had the Feeling of Being There in the City
• Digital Travel Applications-A Survey on Behaviours and Attitudes
• Conclusions
• References
• 6 When the Virtual Becomes Real?
• Introduction
• Recent Innovations in Digital Travel
• Social Telepresence Robots and Drones
• Immersive VR Approaches and the Use of Holograms
• Rethinking Digital Travel
• Metaphors and the Blending of Physical-Digital Realities
• Reflecting on Our Journey so Far, and Our Plans
• References
• Index.