1. On some of these points, see the interesting remarks by Viv Groskop, “Zoom In on Your Meeting Techniques,” Financial Times, April 7, 2020.
2. See Spencer Kornhaber, “Celebrities Have Never Been Less Entertaining: Top Singers and Actors Are Live-Streaming from Quarantine, Appearing Equally Bored and Technologically Inept,” Atlantic, March 21, 2020.
3. For an interesting discussion of online teaching, see Jeanne Suk Gersen, “Finding Real Life in Teaching Law Online,” The New Yorker, April 23, 2020.
4. On celebrities, see Gal Beckerman, “What Do Famous People’s Bookshelves Reveal?,” The New York Times, April 30, 2020. On British parliamentarians, see Sebastian Payne, “Zoom with a View: The Pitfalls of Dressing for ‘Virtual Parliament,’” Financial Times, April 29, 2020.
5. On Zoom fatigue, see Julia Sklar, “‘Zoom Fatigue’ Is Taxing the Brain. Here’s Why That Happens,” National Geographic, April 24, 2020, and also Kate Murphy, “Why Zoom Is Terrible,” The New York Times, April 29, 2020.
6. See Daniel’s short essay “Communication in World 2.0,” April 2020, https://dcgross.com/communication-in-world-20.
7. On the history of confession, see John Cornwell, The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession (New York: Basic Books, 2015), especially xiii–xiv and 44–45.
8. For one survey of views on the therapeutic couch, including some skeptical remarks, see Ahron Friedberg and Louis Linn, “The Couch as Icon,” Psychoanalytic Review 99, no. 1 (February 2012): 35–62.
9. Alex Schultz, “How to Go on a Digital First Date,” GQ, March 20, 2020.
10. On this point, see “Fever When You Hold Me Tight: Under Covid-19 Casual Sex Is Out. Companionship Is In,” The Economist, May 9, 2020.
11. Lori Leibovich, “Turning the Tables on Terry Gross,” Salon, June 22, 1998.
12. See Giovanni Russonello and Sarah Lyall, “In Phone Surveys, People Are Happy to Talk (and Keep Talking),” The New York Times, April 18, 2020.
13. On this “dressing up” phenomenon, see Schultz, “How to Go on a Digital First Date.”
14. On this general point, see Jim Hollan and Scott Stornetta’s seminal article “Beyond Being There,” CHI ’92: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (New York: ACM, 1992), 119–125.