“In Eight and a Half Seconds the World Has Changed”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Video Conferencing: Infrastructures, Practices, Aesthetics 9
4. Teaching / Learning
5. A Study Abroad during Covid-19 45
6. Teaching Into the Void 69
7. Presence in Video Conferencing in Teaching Contexts as a Means for Positioning Subjects 89
8. The Anatomy of Zoom Fatigue 109
9. The Need for Intentionally Equitable Hospitality in Video Conferencing 127
10. Infrastructuring / Interfacing
11. Laws of Zoom 135
12. Video Conferencing as Programmatic Relations 149
13. Techniques of the Face 169
14. Performing / Appearing
15. Sociospatiality between Agency and Fixation 189
16. Eye Contact with the Machine 209
17. Performing Video Conferencing and VR for a “Real Virtual Life” 233
18. “In Eight and a Half Seconds the World Has Changed” 259
19. Working / Cooperating
20. Things in the Background 275
21. People Who Stare at Screens 293
22. Video Conferencing and Performance Magic 325
23. Dis/Abling Video Conferences 343
24. Authors 365