The Psychosocial Reality of Digital Travel: Being in Virtual Places

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
	Why Digital Travel?
	The Mind of the Digital Traveller
	A Roadmap for the Book
	References
2 Being Somewhere
	Introduction
		The Nature of Experiences, and of Experiences of Other Places
		The Philosophy of Perceptual Experience
	Four Philosophical Views on the Nature of Perceptual Experiences
		The Representational View
		Relationism
		Enactivism
		The Sense-data View
		Summary of the Four Theories
	Dual Process Theories and Intuitive Judgment
		The Spinozan Model of Rapid Acceptance Response
	Everyday Activities in the World: Transparency and Embodiment
		Heidegger and Modes of Engaging with the World
		Transparency
	Embodiment
	Presence and the Direct Perception Approach
	Summary and Conclusions
	References
3 Feeling Present in Virtual Environments
	Introduction
	Conceptualisations of Telepresence: Being Present at a Distance
		The Illusion of non-Mediation
		Pretending the Digital Is Physical
		Experiencing a Convincing Simulated Semblance (of Physical Reality)
	Telepresence and Perceptual Illusions
	Perception, Imagination and Attention
		Presence as the Feeling of Attending to a Surrounding External World
	Social Interaction and Affordances for Presence
		Interacting with Other People
		Activities in Place: The Role of Affordances
	Implications For Digital Travel
	References
4 Visiting Places
	Introduction
	Sense of Place
		Spaces and Places
		Human Geography and Edwards Relph’s Place Theory
		Marketing and Hedonic Consumption
			Intention to Visit a Place and Word of Mouth
	Experiencing Sense of Place in a Virtual Environment
		Insights from Non-digital Travel and Tourism
	Conclusions
	References
5 The Reality of Digital Travel
	Introduction
	Digital Travel and Sense of Place
	The Use of Video Games and Photo-Realism
	Creating a Sightseeing Experience in a Video Game
	A Virtual Visit to Los Angeles
		The Sightseers’ Experience of Telepresence and Sense of Place
	Results—Virtual Sightseers Had the Feeling of Being There in the City
	Digital Travel Applications—A Survey on Behaviours and Attitudes
	Conclusions
	References
6 When the Virtual Becomes Real?
	Introduction
	Recent Innovations in Digital Travel
		Social Telepresence Robots and Drones
		Immersive VR Approaches and the Use of Holograms
	Rethinking Digital Travel
		Metaphors and the Blending of Physical-Digital Realities
	Reflecting on Our Journey so Far, and Our Plans
	References
Index