Understanding How Immersive Media Enhance Prosociality: A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

F Canet, S Sánchez-Castillo - Communication Research, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The aim of this article is to present a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on
the relationship between immersive media and prosociality, specifically in the discipline of …

[HTML][HTML] Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls

H Farmer - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Recent years have VR deployed in order to change attitudes.•VR may also have
a role in reducing the dehumanisation of other social groups.•Potential routes to this are …

Strategic storytelling in the age of sustainability

L Dessart, W Standaert - Business Horizons, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Sustainability is high on the strategic agenda and is here to stay. While some companies
have been sustainable since inception, others are repositioning themselves to be …

Metaverse engagement and Korea travel intentions: Understanding affordances, presence, and place attachment among Brazilian ZEPETO users

S Yoon, Y Nam - Journal of Destination Marketing & Management, 2024‏ - Elsevier
This study explored the relationship between metaverse experience and travel decisions
through a survey of 459 Brazilian ZEPETO users. The results show that well-organized …

Combating health misinformation on social media through fact-checking: the effect of threat appraisal, co** appraisal, and empathy

M Sun, X Ma - Telematics and Informatics, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Social media users' active fact-checking as a way to restrain health misinformation has
received considerable attention. With the protection motivation theory (PMT), this study …

The auxiliary role of virtual reality in enhancing the effects of disaster news on empathy and fear: The mediating role of presence

J Lee, D Kang, J Kim - Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social …, 2023‏ - liebertpub.com
This study conducted a two-condition between-subjects laboratory experiment (N= 147) to
examine the effects of textual disaster news combined with a 360° video in different modes …

Cohabitant: The design, implementation, and evaluation of a virtual reality application for interfaith learning and empathy building

MR Rifat, R Ayad, AZ Asha, B Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2024‏ - dl.acm.org
Lack of interfaith communication often gives rise to prejudice and group-based conflict in
multi-faith societies. Nurturing this communication via interfaith learning may reduce this …

[HTML][HTML] Insights into the predictors of empathy in virtual reality environments

J Bacca-Acosta, C Avila-Garzon, M Sierra-Puentes - Information, 2023‏ - mdpi.com
The effectiveness of virtual reality (VR) in eliciting empathy lies in the fact that VR offers
possibilities for situating people in a specific context and in the shoes of others. Previous …

Gender and human-machine communication: Where are we?

L Fortunati, A Edwards - Human-Machine Communication, 2022‏ - search.informit.org
The time has come to take stock of the discussion on gender and human-machine
communication (HMC) in terms of where we have come from and where we may go …

Immersive stories: From technological determinism towards narrative determinism

J Vázquez-Herrero - Media and Communication, 2024‏ - ssoar.info
Following the wave of immersive production that occurred between 2015 and 2018, and in
the face of new virtual, augmented, and mixed-reality devices, this article discusses the need …