Technologies advance and evolve in ways that outpace how we analyze and understand them academically. Here, provocations from established and early career scholars ponder ways in which we can generate, challenge, and accelerate our understanding of emerging technologies.

Nicholas David Bowman: The Purpose of these Provocations – Matthew Klein/Sun Joo (Grace) Ahn: The Utility of Presence in Communication Scholarship – Haley Hatfield: Radicalizing Social Virtual Realities – Miguel Barreda-Ángeles/Tilo Hartmann/Nicholas David Bowman: Merging Presence and Narrative Engagement: Is VR Storytelling the Response to the Challenges of Climate Change Communication? – Tony Liao: Startup Supernovas: Lessons Learned from the Rapid Rise and Demise of the Next Big Augmented Reality Solution – Jaime Banks: The Perceived Robot Mind: Considerations and Directions for Meaning-Making Between Humans and Machines – Jessica M. Szczuka/Marco Dehnert: Sexualized Robots: Use Cases, Normative Debates, and the Need for Research – Julienne A. Greer: All the Worlds a Stage: Health/Art Techniques for Humans and Robots – Vivian Hsueh Hua Chen/Valerie Yu: Emerging Issues in Video Games and Live Streaming – Andrew Phelps/Mia Consalvo/Kelly Boudreau/Nicholas David Bowman: Perspectives on Microstreaming: Labor, Interactivity and Authenticity – Christine L. Cook: Creative Media Misuse: Trolling and Cybercrime in Competitive and Casual Gaming – David Westerman/Nicholas David Bowman: On the Emergence of Cyborgic Face-to-Face Communication: Augmented Reality, Augmented Sociality, and Extra- Dyadic Cues – Bridget Rubenking: Second-Screening and Streaming: Determining the Relevant Affordances of Changing Television Viewing Behaviors – Notes on Contributors – Index.