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Social presence reconsidered: moving beyond, going back, or killing social presence [PDF]
Distance Education, 2017 AbstractOnline education research has long employed the concept of social presence to study interactions in technologically mediated spaces. Yet, a precise shared definition of social presence does not exist. This article traces how the concept of social presence has been developed and appropriated in the online and distance education literature. We do
Murat Öztok, Benjamin A. Kehrwald
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Smoking Bans in the Presence of Social Interaction [PDF]
, 2009 This paper analyzes the welfare effects of a public smoking ban in bars. We construct a model that captures crucial features of bar life: competing bars, social interaction, and heterogenous preferences for a smoking ban.
Bauer, Christian, Lingens, Jörg
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Online Learning, 2022 During the COVID-19 pandemic, from early 2020 onwards, the adoption of synchronous online learning increased rapidly. It offers students a unique learning experience, utilizing communication modes from both in-person and asynchronous online classes ...
Ying Cai +4 more
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International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2009 Adult learners value the flexibility and convenience offered to them as online learners, and many learners are required to absent themselves from their online classes during courses in order to accommodate demanding schedules.
Dianne Conrad
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Social facilitation has been researched for decades, but in the face of the development of virtual reality technology, new questions arise regarding the possibility of its occurrence in this environment —in the presence of computer-generated agents. Past
Paweł M. Strojny +7 more
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Creating a Social Presence Measure: Self-Rated Behaviors that Indicate Mediated Presence
Online Learning, 2022 This study involved the creation and validation of a self-rated social presence measure. Study 1 utilized focus groups to create items. The focus group participants were presented with a set of items based upon past literature; through discussion of ...
Scott Christen +2 more
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The live social semantics application: A platform for integrating face-to-face presence with on-line social networking [PDF]
, 2010 We describe a novel application that integrates real-world data on the face-to-face proximity of individuals with their identities and contacts in on-line social networks.
Alani, Harith +5 more
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J. Comput. Mediat. Commun., 2022 Initially the province of telecommunication and early computer-mediated communication (CMC) literature, multiple systematic reviews suggest “social presence” is now used for an increasingly diverse set of phenomena across various communication settings.
James J. Cummings, Erin Wertz
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An item response theory analysis of the Community of Inquiry Scale
International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2015 The aim of this study is to examine validity and reliability of Community of Inquiry Scale commonly used in online learning by the means of Item Response Theory.
Mehmet Barış Horzum +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Consumers mainly acquire information through social learning in online shopping environment, and social presence as a media attribute generated by real-time interactions in live streaming commerce is more conducive for consumers’ social learning ...
Miao-miao Li, Ying Hua
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