Video Conferencing Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2023
• Series: Digitale Gesellschaft
• Subjects: Audiovisual Communication; Digital Culture; Digital Media; Media; Media Aesthetics; Media History; Media Studies; Media Theory; Platforms; Society; Technology; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies; Videoconferencing
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (374 p.)
• ISBN: 9783732862283; 9783837662283; 9783839462287
• Access: Open Access

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.