Conferencing together in social virtual reality: Bringing agency back into affordances-based approaches in communication scholarship
通过28人半结构化访谈，研究用户如何在社交虚拟现实中策略性地利用媒介可供性，克服物理和虚拟世界的限制，强调用户能动性在媒介选择中的作用。
Technological advancements allow embodied and synchronous communication via social virtual reality (VR), where multiple users interact as avatars in a shared virtual space. However, the affordances of social VR and how users interact with them have been underexplored. We expand the discourse on media affordances by emphasizing user agency in strategic media choices for overcoming constraints in physical and virtual worlds. We qualitatively investigated user experiences of a social VR platform. Findings from semi-structured interviews (N = 28) revealed that media selection is determined through a dynamic relationship between platforms designed to encourage action possibilities and users strategically leveraging media affordances to overcome situational constraints of their physical environment.