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March 15, 2021
During the 2021 Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns, held March 11–13, participants explored the topic of “Truth (and Lies) in Our Time.”
The Shasha Seminar is an annual educational forum for Wesleyan alumni, parents, and friends that provides an opportunity to explore issues of global concern in a small seminar environment. Endowed by James Shasha ’50, P’82, the Shasha Seminar supports lifelong learning and encourages participants to expand their knowledge and perspectives on significant issues.
David McCraw, vice president and deputy general counsel for
The New York Times, presented the Shasha Seminar’s keynote address titled “Lies and Liberty: The Future of Free Speech in a Divided America.”
Canadian researcher Dr. Jeff Hancock of the Stanford Social Media Lab walks us through the reasons for so-called “Zoom fatigue” - and gives us a few pointers on how we might alleviate it in a world where video conferencing has become a huge part of our daily lives
Four Reasons Why Zoom Can Be Exhausting
A new paper explains why videoconferencing exhausts the mind and body and how to protect yourself. By Vignesh Ramachandran | March 10, 2021
Even as more people are logging on to popular video chat platforms to connect with colleagues, family, and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford researchers have a warning for you: Those video calls are likely tiring you out.
Prompted by the recent boom in videoconferencing, communication professor Jeremy Bailenson, founding director of the Stanford Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL), examined the psychological consequences of spending hours per day on these platforms. Just as “Googling” is something akin to any web search, the term “Zooming” has become ubiquitous and a generic verb to replace videoconferencing. Virtual meetings have skyrocketed, with hundreds of millions happening daily, as social distancing protocols have kept people apart physically.
4 Causes of ‘Zoom Fatigue’ and What You Can Do about It
Video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body, leading to Zoom fatigue. But there are easy ways to mitigate the effects.
Videoconferencing platforms like Zoom can really lead to real fatigue, researchers warn.
A new study looks at the psychological consequences of spending hours per day on these platforms.
In the first peer-reviewed article that systematically deconstructs Zoom fatigue from a psychological perspective, Jeremy Bailenson, communications professor and founding director of the Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL) at Stanford University, took the medium apart and assessed Zoom on its individual technical aspects. The paper appears in