Video Conferencing : Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors:	Distelmeyer, Jan (Editor), Moskatova, Olga (Editor), Volmar, Axel (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	In English.
Published:	Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, [2023]
Series:	Digitale Gesellschaft ; 53
Subjects:	Digital Culture. Digital Media. Media Aesthetics. Media History. Media Studies. Media Theory. Media. Platforms. Society. Technology. Videoconferencing. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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
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