Why distance matters: effects on cooperation, persuasion and deception
CSCW '02 Proceedings of the 2002 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Toward a more robust theory and measure of social presence: review and suggested criteria
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
A Cross-Media Presence Questionnaire: The ITC-Sense of Presence Inventory
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
Perceptions of trustworthiness online: the role of visual and textual information
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Intentions to use social media in organizing and taking vacation trips
Computers in Human Behavior
Influence of personality on travel-related consumer-generated media creation
Computers in Human Behavior
Consumer processing of virtual experience in e-commerce: A test of an integrated framework
Computers in Human Behavior
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The Internet has radically decreased the influence of physical distance by allowing people to share images and information about distant places at the click of a button. But we still do not understand how exposure to this information influences our mental conception of places that are far away, and how these effects may change our attitudes towards distant locations. This has implications for both tourism marketers and travelers consulting social media sites for information on destinations. We conducted an experiment to see if exposing participants to one of four mediated representations of an unfamiliar environment impacted their attitudes towards the location. We found that mediated exposure to a distant place positively influenced desire to visit the location through different routes: 3D panoramas heightened feelings of spatial presence which translated into more positive attitudes towards the place, while textual descriptions decreased psychological distance which in turn was associated with more positive attitudes.