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Record Nr.

UNISA996565567103316

Titolo

Video Conferencing : Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics / / ed. by Axel Volmar, Jan Distelmeyer, Olga Moskatova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023]

2023

ISBN

3-8394-6228-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (374 p.)

Collana

Digitale Gesellschaft ; ; 53

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCEĀ / Media Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics -- Teaching / Learning -- A Study Abroad during Covid-19 -- Teaching Into the Void -- Presence in Video Conferencing in Teaching Contexts as a Means for Positioning Subjects -- The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue -- The Need for Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Video Conferencing -- Infrastructuring / Interfacing -- Laws of Zoom -- Video Conferencing as Programmatic Relations -- Techniques of the Face -- Performing / Appearing -- Sociospatiality between Agency and Fixation -- Eye Contact with the Machine -- Performing Video Conferencing and VR for a "Real Virtual Life" -- "In Eight and a Half Seconds the World Has Changed" -- Working / Cooperating -- Things in the Background -- People Who Stare at Screens -- Video Conferencing and Performance Magic -- Dis/Abling Video Conferences -- Authors

Sommario/riassunto

The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means for web-based forms of remote communication and collaboration without physical copresence. Taking the recent mainstreaming of videoconferencing as its point of departure, this anthology examines the complex mediality of this new form of social interaction. Connecting theoretical reflection with material case studies, the contributors question practices, politics and aesthetics of



videoconferencing and the specific meanings it acquires in different historical, cultural and social contexts.