Seeing and Viewing Through a Postdigital Pandemic: Shifting from Physical
Proximity to Scopic Mediation
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Tschaepe M
Postdigit Sci Educ
2020[]; 2
(3
): 757-771
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This paper addresses a particular area of concern regarding our habits that
pertains to embodied experience and education through the Covid-19 pandemic: the
shift from comfort to discomfort regarding face-to-face social interaction within
the same physical space. To explore this transition, I use the related concepts
of seeing and viewing from Isaac Asimov's novel, The Naked Sun (1957), which are
useful tools for investigating a probable collateral effect of rapid social
distancing for the sake of avoiding contagion and includes replacing physically
proximate interaction and procedures with a scopic mediation. Seeing and viewing
provide concepts for understanding how values change in the midst of fears
concerning contagion through physical contact that are mollified through the use
of technology analogous to video conferencing. Postdigital education and the
concepts of we-think, we-learn, and we-act provide critical tools for helping us
understand this transition of perspective regarding educational and social
practices in the midst of a pandemic.
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