ABSTRACT
The following is a brief introduction to the themed issue on presence. This issue includes four articles representing a variety of methodologies. Each piece in this issue explores a norm or assumption of presence research.
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Notes
1 Kelly, Stephanie E. and David K. Westerman. “18. New Technologies and Distributed Learning Systems.” Handbook of Communication and Learning 16 (2016): 455–80.
2 Matthew Lombardand Theresa Ditton. “At the Heart of it All: The Concept of Presence.” Journal of Computer-Mediated communication 3, no. 2 (1997): JCMC321.
3 Kyle R. Vareberg and David Westerman. “A little Goes a Long Way: Examining the Limits of Immediacy Cues on Students’ Perceptions of Instructor Credibility, Immediacy, Liking, and Clarity.” Review of Communication (2023): 1–18.
4 Stephanie Kelly and Hamlet Autman. “Effective Computer-Mediated Business Communication: Fostering Immediacy.” Journal of Research In Business Education 56, no. 2 (2014): 42–58.
5 Stephanie Kelly, Christopher Rice, Bryce Wyatt, Johnny Ducking, and Zachary Denton. “Teacher Immediacy and Decreased Student Quantitative Reasoning Anxiety: The Mediating Effect of Perception.” Communication Education 64, no. 2 (2015): 171–86.