Ola Ola On 2020-07-03 11:27, Geert Lovink wrote: > Dear nettimers, > > I suppose many of you who’re into teaching have had an intense and > exhausting period of giving online classes. > > I am trying to gather experiences of what’s now called ‘Zoom > fatigue’. Of course this is by no means limited to Zoom and extends > to Microsofts Teams and Skype, Google Classrooms etc. The experience > also shows up in the cultural sector, in businesses and in the busy > everyday or freelancers that have to speak to clients. We all made > long hours. > > My question is a strategic one. Should we, in the near future, refuse > to give online classes and have management meetings like this? The IT > management class is already promoting the ‘blended’ model, > expecting a backlash of the excessive video conferencing hours of the > past months. > > Do you want to send me (or post here) some sentences or paragraph how, > exactly, you experienced the move to video conferencing and the > fatigue? > > Is there something wrong with the user interface? Is the ‘live’ > aspect important or should we rather return to pre-produced videos? As > you all know, the relation (or tension) between ‘streaming’ and > ‘online video’ is an old one.
Well, on that one, methink Giorgio Agamben (him again!) had the definitive answer: https://eutopiainstitute.org/2020/05/requiem-for-the-students-giorgio-agamben/ (there are more sites carrying the same translantion by Alan Dean, I choose the one with the nicest pic) > Some of us also made remarkably positive experiences. When the people, > the content and context is right, an online conference that matters > turned out really interesting. There are so many things to discuss, > new connections to be made, hearing from those who have been excluded > from the dialogues and discourses so far. The ‘stack of crises’ > may be distressing but the resistance, worldwide, also grows. Under > what circumstances it is desirable to come together like this? > > This much is clear. We need to gather and organize, mobilize. How > should ‘our’ Zoom look like? One that is inspiring, very likely > limited in time, more focussed dialogues, perhaps even voting, > facilitating both consensus AND debate? > > Is there a top limit to the use of video as community tool? > > Best, Geert > > ps. Here at the Institute of Network Cultures we made some experiences > ourselves with the MoneyLab #8 event, organized by Aksioma in > Ljubljana, originally scheduled for late March 2020, that was quickly > turned into an 8 part lecture series: > https://vimeo.com/networkcultures. Let's be frank here: there were interesting talks/interventions, but in term of outreach/public impact/participation, it was an unmitigated disaster. Beter then to revert to purely literary text exchanges - like nettime. Cheers to all, and take care: The Winter is Coming. p+7D! # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
