Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics
Bielefeld: transcript (2023), 372 pp.
Series: Digitale Society, 53
ISBN 978-3-8394-6228-7 (pdf); 978-3-8376-6228-3 (print)
CC BY-SA
"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." (Publisher description)
Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics: An Introduction / Axel Volmar, Olga Moskatova, and Jan Distelmeyer, 9
TEACHING | LEARNING
A Study Abroad during Covid-19 / Kalani Michell, 45
Teaching Into the Void: Reflections on “Blended” Learning and Other Digital Amenities / Donatella Della Ratta, 69
Presence in Video Conferencing in Teaching Contexts as a Means for Positioning Subjects / Andreas Weich, Irina Kaldrack, and Philipp Deny, 89
The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue / Geert Lovink, 109
The Need for Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Video Conferencing / Maha Bali, 127
INFRASTRUCTURING | INTERFACING
Laws of Zoom / Kim Albrecht, 135
Video Conferencing as Programmatic Relations: Conditions, Consequences, and Mediality of Zoom & Co / Jan Distelmeyer, 149
Techniques of the Face: The Art and Politics of Video Conferencing (Inter)Faces / Christian Ulrik Andersen and Søren Bro Pold, 169
PERFORMING | APPEARING
Sociospatiality between Agency and Fixation: Framing the Fixed View in Video Conferencing Arrangements / Laura Katharina Mücke, 189
Eye Contact with the Machine: Gaze Correction in Video Conferencing / Robert Rapoport and Vera Tollmann, 209
Performing Video Conferencing and VR for a “Real Virtual Life”: A Warm Welcome to Distant Socializing! / Martina Leeker, 233
“In Eight and a Half Seconds the World Has Changed”: An Interview with Telecommunication Art Pioneer Bill Bartlett / Tilman Baumgärtel, 259
WORKING | COOPERATING
Things in the Background: Video Conferencing and the Labor of Being Seen / Alexandra Anikina, 275
People Who Stare at Screens / Winfried Gerling, 293
Video Conferencing and Performance Magic / Will Houstoun and Katharina Rein, 325
Dis/Abling Video Conferences: A Video- and Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Remote Collaboration Situations / Tom Bieling, Beate Ochsner, Siegfried Saerberg, Robert Stock, and Frithjof Esch, 343
TEACHING | LEARNING
A Study Abroad during Covid-19 / Kalani Michell, 45
Teaching Into the Void: Reflections on “Blended” Learning and Other Digital Amenities / Donatella Della Ratta, 69
Presence in Video Conferencing in Teaching Contexts as a Means for Positioning Subjects / Andreas Weich, Irina Kaldrack, and Philipp Deny, 89
The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue / Geert Lovink, 109
The Need for Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Video Conferencing / Maha Bali, 127
INFRASTRUCTURING | INTERFACING
Laws of Zoom / Kim Albrecht, 135
Video Conferencing as Programmatic Relations: Conditions, Consequences, and Mediality of Zoom & Co / Jan Distelmeyer, 149
Techniques of the Face: The Art and Politics of Video Conferencing (Inter)Faces / Christian Ulrik Andersen and Søren Bro Pold, 169
PERFORMING | APPEARING
Sociospatiality between Agency and Fixation: Framing the Fixed View in Video Conferencing Arrangements / Laura Katharina Mücke, 189
Eye Contact with the Machine: Gaze Correction in Video Conferencing / Robert Rapoport and Vera Tollmann, 209
Performing Video Conferencing and VR for a “Real Virtual Life”: A Warm Welcome to Distant Socializing! / Martina Leeker, 233
“In Eight and a Half Seconds the World Has Changed”: An Interview with Telecommunication Art Pioneer Bill Bartlett / Tilman Baumgärtel, 259
WORKING | COOPERATING
Things in the Background: Video Conferencing and the Labor of Being Seen / Alexandra Anikina, 275
People Who Stare at Screens / Winfried Gerling, 293
Video Conferencing and Performance Magic / Will Houstoun and Katharina Rein, 325
Dis/Abling Video Conferences: A Video- and Auto-Ethnographic Exploration of Remote Collaboration Situations / Tom Bieling, Beate Ochsner, Siegfried Saerberg, Robert Stock, and Frithjof Esch, 343
