Video Conferencing: Practices, Politics, Aesthetics (Digital Society) - Softcover

Axel Volmar

 
9783837662283: Video Conferencing: Practices, Politics, Aesthetics (Digital Society)

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Axel Volmar is a postdoctoral researcher at the Collaborative Research Center 1187 Media of Cooperation at the University of Siegen.

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