Abstract
With the higher education system’s full transition to online learning platforms during the coronavirus pandemic, cameras in classes have become incredibly prominent in academic and media discourse. Media, Facebook groups, and virtual events in academic settings often dealt with the learning and teaching experiences with cameras in classes. Dealing with cameras, they also described the difficulties and disappointments from academic teaching. This article will examine these discussions of camera activity in academic classes to understand students’ and professors’ different positions concerning studies and academic teaching. Based on ethnographic observations in virtual discussions and analysis of the media discourse on the subject, I will point out the paradoxical connection between the discussion of cameras and the critique of the higher education system in general. Finally, I will analyze the emotional and therapeutic language in which this critique is formulated.
Translated title of the contribution | Black Screens: The Transition to Online Learning in the Higher Education System: A Look through the Camera Lens |
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Original language | Hebrew |
Pages (from-to) | 16-23 |
Journal | סוציולוגיה ישראלית: כתב-עת לחקר החברה הישראלית |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 2 |
State | Published - 2021 |