Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2023

Video Conferencing

Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics

Edited by: Axel Volmar , Olga Moskatova and Jan Distelmeyer
Funded by: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and Open Library Medienwissenschaft 2023

Volume 53 in the series Digitale Gesellschaft

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839462287

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Axel Volmar is currently a guest professor at the Institute for Music and Media at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research is on media history, media theory, and the praxeology of media, intersecting with the history of science, infrastructure studies, and disability studies.
Olga Moskatova is professor for media theory at University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main. Her fields of research include theory and aesthetics of visual media, materiality of media, networked images and media of immunization.
Jan Distelmeyer is a professor of media history and media theory in the European Media Studies program of Fachhochschule Potsdam and Universität Potsdam. His current research focuses on the relationship between mediality and digitality with a special interest in interface processes as well as questions of automation and autonomy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics An Introduction Axel Volmar, Olga Moskatova and Jan Distelmeyer Open Access Download PDF	9
Teaching / Learning
A Study Abroad during Covid-19 Kalani Michell Open Access Download PDF	45
Teaching Into the Void Reflections on “Blended” Learning and Other Digital Amenities Donatella Della Ratta Open Access Download PDF	69
Presence in Video Conferencing in Teaching Contexts as a Means for Positioning Subjects Andreas Weich, Irina Kaldrack and Philipp Deny Open Access Download PDF	89
The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue Geert Lovink Open Access Download PDF	109
The Need for Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Video Conferencing Maha Bali Open Access Download PDF	127
Infrastructuring / Interfacing
Laws of Zoom Kim Albrecht Open Access Download PDF	135
Video Conferencing as Programmatic Relations Conditions, Consequences, and Mediality of Zoom & Co Jan Distelmeyer Open Access Download PDF	149
Techniques of the Face The Art and Politics of Video Conferencing (Inter)Faces Christian Ulrik Andersen and Søren Bro Pold Open Access Download PDF	169
Performing / Appearing
Sociospatiality between Agency and Fixation Framing the Fixed View in Video Conferencing Arrangements Laura Katharina Mücke Open Access Download PDF	189
Eye Contact with the Machine Gaze Correction in Video Conferencing Robert Rapoport and Vera Tollmann Open Access Download PDF	209
Performing Video Conferencing and VR for a “Real Virtual Life” A Warm Welcome to Distant Socializing! Martina Leeker Open Access Download PDF	233
“In Eight and a Half Seconds the World Has Changed” An Interview with Telecommunication Art Pioneer Bill Bartlett Tilman Baumgärtel Open Access Download PDF	259
Working / Cooperating
Things in the Background Video Conferencing and the Labor of Being Seen Alexandra Anikina Open Access Download PDF	275
People Who Stare at Screens Winfried Gerling Open Access Download PDF	293
Video Conferencing and Performance Magic Will Houstoun and Katharina Rein Open Access Download PDF	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 Open Access Download PDF	343
Authors Open Access Download PDF	365

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 374
Keywords: Digital Culture; Media; Platforms; Videoconferencing; Technology; Society; Digital Media; Media Aesthetics; Media History; Media Theory; Media Studies

eBook

Published: November 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783839462287