transportation |
Working Definition:
The state of being transported, conveyed from an actual space/time context into a virtual space/time context.
Disciplinary Definitions:
"psychological transportation [is] defined ... as a state in which a reader becomes absorbed in the narrative world, leaving the real world, at least momentarily, behind" (Green/Brock "In the Mind's Eye," 317) "we conceived of transportation as a convergent pro¬cess, where all of the person's mental systems and capacities become fo¬cused on the events occurring in the narrative" (Gren/Brock "In the Mind's Eye," 324)
Comments:
" Being "transported" means having a virtual experience during which you lose track of where you are, a similar phenomenon surely occurs, if of shorter duration, during an experience transfer (Dilthey's "transposition").
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Transportation may be a series of transpositions. ??
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June 13, 2007
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