“You're Muted"

Mark Nunes is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Appalachian State University. His publications include Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures (Bloomsbury, 2012) and Cyberspaces of Everyday Life (2006). Cassandra Ozog is an instructor in the Department of Sociology and Social Studies at the University of Regina, in Treaty 4 Territory, Canada.

After the Zoom hegemony during Covid, this rich collection describes the unfolding of a diverse techno culture. How should remote social interaction be designed? Breaking out of the spectator grid is one. Less performative self-monitoring, more critical engagement another. Listening carefully to users, as the authors have done, turns out to be key if we want to create hybrid togetherness--so necessary in this divisive techno-world.

• List of FiguresList of TablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Performative Logic of ZoomMark Nunes (Appalachian State University, USA) and Cassandra Ozog (University of Regina, Canada)Part 1 : Zoom EmbodimentsIntroduction Mark Nunes (Appalachian State University, USA) and Cassandra Ozog (University of Regina, Canada)1. The Face of the Network: Subjectivity, Securitization, and the Production of Sad Affect on ZoomRicky D. Crano (University of California, Irvine, USA)2. Mediating the Death of a Parent: Zoom and the Deathbed VigilSusan A. Sci (Regis University, USA)3. Zoom Etiquette Guides: Negotiating Between Workplace Professionalism and Gendered Homeplace Surveillance in the Videoconferencing Borderlands Jacquelyne Thoni Howard (Tulane University, USA)Part 2: Staging ZoomIntroduction Mark Nunes (Appalachian State University, USA) and Cassandra Ozog (University of Regina, Canada)4. Proxemics and Nonverbal Communication Dilemmas on ZoomJohn A. McArthur (Furman University, USA)5. Zoom’s Performative Window: Affordances and Constraints Daniel Paul O’Brien (University of Essex, UK)6. Eigengrau: Reimagining Videoconferencing as a “Slow Platform”Craig Fahner (New York University, USA)Part 3: Transverse Networks and the Neoliberal UniversityIntroduction Mark Nunes (Appalachian State University, USA) and Cassandra Ozog (University of Regina, Canada)7. The Zoom Machinic in Postdigital Learning Ecologies: An Exploration of Educators’ Experiences via Three Case StudiesKathryn Grushka (The University of Newcastle, Australia), Rachel Buchanan (The University of Newcastle, Australia), Michael Whittington (The University of Newcastle, Australia), and Rory Davis (The University of Newcastle, Australia)8. “Networked Togetherness, I Guess ¯\_(?)_/¯”: Subverting the Academic Zoom Chat through the Subcultural CollectiveAlexis-Carlota Cochrane (McMaster University, Canada) and Theresa N. Kenney (McMaster University, Canada)9. Stage Directions and Snarky Comments: Shadow Networks in Zoom Meetings Throughout the COVID-19 PandemicHeather J. Carmack (Mayo Clinic, USA), Heather M. Stassen (Daemen University, USA), Tennley A. Vik (University of Nevada, Reno, USA), and Jocelyn M. DeGroot (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA)Part 4: Unstable ConnectionsIntroduction Mark Nunes (Appalachian State University, USA) and Cassandra Ozog (University of Regina, Canada)10. Locked In or Locked Out? Aging Migrants Enacting Autonomous and Dependent Co-presence on Zoom during the PandemicEarvin Charles B. Cabalquinto (Monash University, Australia) 11. “Zoom Saved All Our Lives”: A Case of Nonprofit Resilient Organizing During the COVID-19 PandemicEvgeniya Pyatovskaya (University of South Florida, USA)12. (Un)expected Errors Mark Nunes (Appalachian State University, USA) and Cassandra Ozog (University of Regina, Canada)Index