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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.

"Through the frame of Zoom, this collection of essays examines the rapid emergence of videoconferencing in everyday life under COVID-19, its preexisting performative logic, and the ongoing implication of these practices for millions of individuals and institutions. The twelve chapters in this collection explore how videoconferencing platforms in general, and Zoom in particular, have provided individuals and institutions new modes of "engagement," while at the same time reifying, normalizing, and domesticating modes of surveillance, control, and marginalization that have been part and parcel of a networked-based performative logic for nearly a century"--

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 EmbodimentsIntroductionMark 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 BorderlandsJacquelyne Thoni Howard (Tulane University, USA)Part 2: Staging ZoomIntroductionMark 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 ConstraintsDaniel 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 UniversityIntroductionMark 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 ConnectionsIntroductionMark 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 ErrorsMark Nunes (Appalachian State University, USA) and Cassandra Ozog (University of Regina, Canada)Index