![]() As this platform becomes the new default of interaction, we also have to contend with it as a means of self-expression, which primarily occurs in the background of the window-the Zoom frame or FaceTime square. During the pandemic, communication, particularly professional communication, has turned to video chat for many of us. For early-internet forum posting it was the avatar or the signature for instant-messaging it was the evocative away message for Instagram the like-grabbing selfie and for Slack the emoji response or aggressive DM. In COVID-19 quarantine, our constant video chats come with an added, sometimes involuntary, edge of domestic voyeurism and exhibitionism.Īdvances in digital technology have a way of inducing new habits that in turn create new forms of social etiquette and signaling, because humanity can’t seem to help itself when it comes to claiming individuality. A friend reclines in bed, talking just before going to sleep, against a backdrop of wrinkled sheets. Your parents cook dinner in your nostalgic childhood kitchen. A coworker’s houseplants look unhealthy, their room messy. The owner of your company sits in a mansion during an all-office Zoom town hall.
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