A plasma display window?—The shifting baseline problem in a technologically mediated natural world

@article{Kahn2008APD,
  title={A plasma display window?—The shifting baseline problem in a technologically mediated natural world},
  author={Peter H. Kahn and Batya Friedman and Brian T. Gill and Jennifer Hagman and Rachel L. Severson and Nathan G. Freier and Erika Feldman and Sybil Carr{\'e}re and Anna Stolyar},
  journal={Journal of Environmental Psychology},
  year={2008},
  volume={28},
  pages={192-199}
}
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