Social developments from digital environments
12. The Media Equation
- Media equal real life.
- People expect new media to follow the natural rules of interpersonal interaction, as though the rules apply in and to media as well.
- People respond
socially and naturally to media even though they believe it is not reasonable to do so and though they don't think they themselves do.
- People can
think through this
and avoid it but when they don't (when tired, distracted, busy, "normal," on autopilot),
they follow the equation.
- People can
think through this
- New media, old brain
- People like most that which is present, simple,social, natural, easy.
- Summary of some of their findings, in categories
Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
http://ict.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/overviews/Post%20Traumatic%20Stress%20Disorder_Overvie
Using Virtual Reality to Treat PTSD
Article for Concept Application Note:
Do you Take this Robot?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/style/sex-robots.html
want to learn more?
Yuval Noah Harari. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harper-Collins, 2017.
Watch this presentation:
Games Move Us - An Exploration of Design Innovations that Lead to Player Emotions
Check out these two student projects at Penn St:
The identity and avatar similarity in games: an exploration of flow and enjoyment
and
or the advanced work at
