视频会议应用与工作的“媒介化”

视频会议作为一种新媒介,推动了工作的"媒介化"。它导致原有的工作场景边界被打破,带来各种场景的混融,人们的行为模式因此而发生变化。在一定意义上,人们的工作行为变成一种基于屏幕的表演,这种表演时时受到来自他人和自我的审视,与此同时,人们在交流中获得的来自他人的反馈却可能减少。视频会议系统支持下的会议,削弱了仪式感和社交感。但因其成本相对较低,反而可能进一步盛行。屏幕上的劳动也是一种数字劳动,视频会议使得人们的劳动变成了多线程与永远在线的状态,劳动强度在无形中加大,组织或行业的内卷现象也可能进一步加剧。

Application of Video Conferencing and Mediatization of Work

As a kind of new media,video conferencing technology promoted the mediatization of work.The application of video conferencing system in work breaks the boundary of work scene,bringing about the fusion of various scenes and the changes in people’s behavior patterns.To some extent,people’s work behavior through video conferencing becomes a kind of play on screen under the monitoring of others and themselves.However,the feedback from others in the communication through the system may be reduced.In those conferences supported by this technology,sense of ritual and sense of social interactions are also weakened,but online conference may be more popular since the costs are relatively low.The labor on screen is also a kind of digital labor.Video conferencing makes people’s labor multi-threaded and always online,which means the increase in labor intensity and the further aggravation of the involution in organizations or industries.