Virtual reality and videogames: immersion, presence, and the performative spatiality of 'being there'in virtual worlds

T Blackman - Social & Cultural Geography, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Virtual worlds and their numerous digital geographies are ubiquitous in everyday life. This
article addresses the intersection of two increasingly popular mediums: virtual reality and …

Embodied virtual geographies: Linkages between bodies, spaces, and digital environments

T Osborne, P Jones - Geography Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Within an ongoing debate about the relationships between the body and technological
experiences within virtual reality (VR), there has hitherto been limited consideration of the …

Interviewing in the metaverse: The renewed importance of location and embodiment

M Rzeszewski, T Osborne, P Jones, L Evans… - Applied …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we explore the methodological implications of conducting online qualitative
interviews in the metaverse through virtual reality (VR). Technology companies have …

“You're fired”: the influence of heuristic-systematic processing in communication and termination decisions in organizational environments

A Atkins, AL Lancaster, MK Ault - Journal of Communication …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose Decisions regarding the termination of organizational members are not only
common but also represent difficult actions for managers. Despite their importance and …

The Future of Religion Is Virtual Reality: Authenticating Religious Practice in the Coming Metaverse Through an Examination of Religion in Second Life

J Fernandez - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Utilizing previous ethnographic scholarship of the early 21 st century, virtual-world platform
of Second Life, this thesis examines the phenomenon of religious communities in virtual …

Wearable biosensors: An agenda for digital embodied methods

T Osborne, P Morgado, D Paiva… - A Research Agenda for …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
The body is an essential aspect of contemporary geographical scholarship (Longhurst,
1997; Longhurst et al., 2008), especially within cultural, social, and digital geography (Pink …

[PDF][PDF] Impact of Fully-Immersive Teaching (FIT) vs. conventional communicative language teaching on the articulation skills of EFL learners with Expressive Language …

M Khaki, HH Tabrizi, S Shafiee - Language and Translation, 2024 - journals.iau.ir
Based on the tenets of the cognitive theory of multimedia learning, the purpose of this
research was to investigate the impact of Fully-Immersive Teaching (FIT) vs. conventional …

Virtual reality, place and affect

Z Gardner, K Bennett, S De Sabbata - A Research Agenda for …, 2023 - elgaronline.com
Virtual reality (VR) technologies create the illusion that users are placed within wholly
digitally created worlds and have been around in different forms for many decades (Evans …

Researching Digital Life: Orientations, Methods and Practice

J Ash, A Leszczynski, R Kitchin - 2024 - torrossa.com
Since the birth of digital computing in the 1950s, how society operates and is managed, and
the ways in which social relations take place, have become ever more entwined with the …

Virtual Reality and Geography

D Bos - The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2024 - Springer
In the last decade, virtual reality (VR) technologies have grown significantly in commercial,
public, and scholarly interest. Increasing accessibility and affordability have seen VR …