COVID-19 Pandemi Sürecinde Ortaya Çıkan Yeni Bir Kavram: Zoom Yorgunluğu

Year 2022, Volume: 12 Issue: 3, 47 - 71, 18.09.2022

Tuğba Turgut Sinan Okur

https://doi.org/10.12658/M0661

Abstract

COVID-19 nedeniyle tüm dünyada ilan edilen ve yaklaşık iki yıldır devam eden pandemi süreci, bireylerin hayatını derinden etkileyerek birçok yaşam alanında değişiklikler yaşanmasına sebep olmaktadır. Özellikle eğitim alanında yüz yüze eğitime ara verilerek uzaktan eğitime geçilmiş ve uzaktan eğitim süreci yaygınlaşarak pandeminin getirdiği hayatın yeni normali haline gelmiştir. Bu yeni normal içerisinde bireyler günlük hayatın büyük bir kısmını teknolojik aletlerin başında çevrim içi olarak geçirmeye başlamıştır. Her türlü aktiviteyi çevrim içi platformlar üzerinden gerçekleştiren bireylerin son zamanlarda sıklıkla Zoom uygulamasını kullandıkları ve Zoom’un bireylerin yaşamının önemli bir bileşeni olduğu belirlenmiştir. Bireylerin Zoom’da farklı sebepler ile günün büyük bir çoğunluğunu geçirmesi fiziksel, bilişsel ve psikolojik açıdan sorunların ortaya çıkmasına neden olmuştur. Aşırı, bilinçsiz ve kontrolsüz Zoom kullanımı sonucunda yaşanan tüm sorunlar alanyazında Zoom yorgunluğu olarak ifade edilmiştir. Bu çalışmada dijital çağın yeni problemi olarak görülen Zoom yorgunluğu kavramı, alanyazın çerçevesinde ele alınmaktadır. Özellikle Zoom yorgunluğu kavramının ortaya çıkışı, tanımlanması, temel sebepleri, biyolojik ve nöropsikolojik açıdan açıklanması ve bireyler üzerindeki etkileri ile bu etkilerin azaltılabilmesi için neler yapılması gerektiği detaylı olarak incelenmektedir. Güncel ve özgün bir konu olduğu düşünülen bu çalışmanın ulusal alanyazına önemli katkılar sağlayacağına inanılmaktadır.

Keywords

COVID-19, pandemi süreci, uzaktan eğitim, Zoom, Zoom yorgunluğu

A New Concept Emerging During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Zoom Fatigue

Abstract

The pandemic process, which has been announced all over the world due to COVID-19 and has been going on for about two year, has profoundly affected the lives of individuals, causing changes in many areas of life. Especially in the field of education, face-to-face education was suspended, and distance education was started, and the distance education process became widespread and became the new normal of life brought by the pandemic process. In this new normal, individuals have started to spend a large part of their daily life online in front of technological devices. It has been determined that individuals who carry out all kinds of activities through online platforms use the Zoom application most frequently and Zoom is an important component of the lives of individuals. The fact that individuals spend most of the day on Zoom for different reasons has led to the emergence of physical, cognitive and psychological problems. All the problems experienced as a result of excessive, unconscious and uncontrolled use of Zoom are expressed as Zoom fatigue in the literature. In this study, the concept of Zoom fatigue, which is seen as the new problem of the digital age, is discussed within the framework of the literature. In particular, the emergence of the concept of Zoom fatigue, the way it is defined, its basic causes, its biological and neuropsychological explanation, its effects on individuals and what should be done to reduce these effects are examined in detail. It is believed that this study, which is thought to be a current and original subject, will make significant contributions particularly to the national literature.

Keywords

COVID-19, pandemic, distance learning, Zoom, Zoom fatigue.

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