Video Conferencing : Practices, Politics, 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 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: Axel Volmar, Olga Moskatova, Jan Distelmeyer

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Publication Date: Apr 23, 2024

Number of Pages: 400 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 3837662284

ISBN-13: 9783837662283