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Digitally Traversing Social Distances: Zoom Trivia with Friends

Title (Dublin Core)

Digitally Traversing Social Distances: Zoom Trivia with Friends

Disclaimer (Dublin Core)

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Description (Dublin Core)

This photo depicts me and my university friends catching up over Zoom and playing trivia. We played trivia multiple times over zoom, usually most Fridays, as a regular way to socialise while we were all apart during university holidays and Melbourne's second lockdown. The rules of our trivia games were as follows: every player would contribute $5, different people would volunteer to make trivia questions on whatever category they choose (including memes, dog breeds, logos etc.) and the overall winner that week would use the prize money to buy alcohol of their choice (we are students after all). We also had dress-up themes like sports and beach-wear, and bonus points would be allocated to best-dressed. These nights were the highlight of my week and gave me something to look forward to, breaking up the monotony of university assignments and lockdown. At the time this photo was taken, I had left Melbourne and was in hotel quarantine in Brisbane. This is also why zoom trivia worked well, because whilst some of my friends stayed in Melbourne, many of us moved out of the city to do lockdown with family in places like rural Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, and Queensland. Social media and video chats like Zoom functioned to connect us in new ways during the pandemic, and shows how the barriers of physical distance could be traversed via digital realms.
HIST30060.

Date (Dublin Core)

August 9, 2020 21:28 +10:00

Creator (Dublin Core)

Jasmine Stephens

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Jasmine Stephens

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HIST30060

Partner (Dublin Core)

University of Melbourne

Type (Dublin Core)

Photograph, personal

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Education--Universities
English Home & Family Life
English Technology
English Social Distance
English Travel

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

Zoom
friend
trivia
game
socialize
travel
internet
connect

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

Zoom
friends
trivia
games
socialising
social distance
travel
digital
internet
video

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HIST 30060 University of Melbourne Syllabus

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

11/10/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

02/17/2021
03/09/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

08/09/2020

Item sets

Covid 19
Australian Collection

This item was submitted on November 10, 2020 by Jasmine Stephens using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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