“I just called”

  “I just called”: The medium, remediation, convergence & the workplace Read the articles on the “retro art” of the phone call (links below) and use your weekly readings (at least 2) and materials to analyze the change in “human affairs.” Millennials are widely held to hate phone calls, but Gen Z and the switch to seemingly endless Zoom sessions have people thinking phone calls might be better. While this is clearly a kind of remediation, there is more that is happening, including the extensions making work instead of saving labour, and in particular, there is a change in “human affairs.” So, how would you combine your readings, topics raised in class and elsewhere to develop an approach that would analyze and hopefully explain the situation detailed therein. In particular, keep in mind how the medium is the message actually works and following from that, what are the social, political, cultural and/or economic ramifications? Who benefits? You MUST refer specifically to no fewer than two (2) of the assigned required readings from the COURSE MATERIALS folder up to and including the week the essay is due. External research is not a requirement and should be done judiciously, with an eye to relevance. Links https://www.inc.com/melissa-angell/zoom-fatigue-phone-calls-worker-preference-hy brid-work-from-home.html https://slate.com/technology/2022/02/no-more-zooms-please.html https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/16/stop-watching-me-how-z oom-helped-me-overcome-my-dread-of-phone-calls