Are "holistic overview", "insight", "global awareness", "feeling of interconnectedness" properties of "presence"??

I have identified the problem here, but haven't had the chance to write down my thoughts about it.

There are a lot of obfuscated, surprising and unclear factors about multimedia experience (which is good, not everything can or should be explained); to contrive terms like "presence" and "immersion" seems like a desperate attempt to tame those unbridled qualitative, soft and artistic tacit factors ... the quality without a name. Some ideas work - others do not.

Presence:

"[an experience] “ that seems truly "natural," "immediate," "direct," and "real," a mediated experience that seems very much like it is not mediated; a mediated experience that creates for the user a strong sense of presence.”
Matthew Lombard, Theresa Ditton, (1997) "At the Heart of It All: The Concept of Presence; Temple University"

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue2/lombard.html

Immersion:

"Presence as immersion also includes a psychological component. When users feel immersive presence they are involved [(Palmer, 1995)], absorbed [(Quarrick, 1989)], engaged, engrossed. This psychological state typically is best measured via subject self-report (although observation of involved media users might also be a useful indicator). For example, a factor analysis of responses to items used by [Heeter (1995)] in a study of user reactions to consumer virtual reality systems resulted in an "involvement" factor containing the items "intense," "fun," "competitive," "addictive," and "exciting"; scores on this factor were the highest of all factors (8.7 out of 10)."

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Einige Notizen zu Medialität, Medium und sensorischen Modalitäten

Diese Sammlung zu "Medium" bedürfen einer eigenen Seite um dieses Verhältnis zu entwirren.

Ein link zu einer etymologisch-epistemologischen Analyse des Begriffs "Medium" von Wolfgang Hagen hier: http://www.formatlabor.net/blog/?p=160 (Vortrag auch als pdf)

Links:
Etymologie von 'presence' vorgenommen vom Presence Project
Eine ganz andere Herangehensweise mit dem 'A Presence Dictionary ebenfalls vom Presence Project.