Do you leave your camera on at academic workshops? I rarely do with lectures or seminars but I usually do at workshops, largely because I realise how draining it is to face unresponsive blank screens in a putatively interactive session. It feels strange to me that we’ve yet to establish clear professional norms about this, hinting at a possible break down in the process through which norms emerge and are enforced. I suspect this has to be a much more explicit process in online interaction, unlike the organic way in which norms can coalesce through in person interaction. But it leaves me pessimistic about digital academic culture. In spite of my concerns about hybrid events, as actually practiced rather than in principle, I’m a huge supporter of online organisation and it’s probably my preferred mode. But to fully take advantage of this we need to better account for what we do in these spaces and why.
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