Abstract:

The digital transformation, which has been incredibly accelerated by the COVID-19 crisis, is leading to a new type of communication. Communication is evolving towards the use of video conferencing platforms such as Zoom / Google Meet and others. The thesis that COVID-19 has changed the way we communicate is becoming more and more important.

In fact, this trend of replacing personal face-to-face communication and the whole wealth of nonverbal cues with impersonal online communication is not since 2020 and with the emergence of the threat of infection. In recent decades, communication has increasingly become on-screen, dominated, and mediated by social networks. These fluctuations in communication lead to depersonalization, depersonalization, and so on. But the focus of this study is on the positives that can be gleaned from online communication through Zoom / Google Meet.

The report presents an online initiative to celebrate International Book and Copyright Day. On the occasion of April 23, L. Parijkova created an event at Google Meet, where mainly students from the University of Library Science and Information Technology, but also from other universities were invited. Based on the recording of the meeting, an analysis was made of the topics that excited the participants in the online forum. Conclusions have been drawn regarding books and reading during a pandemic, but not only how books affect readers emotionally.

The other topic, which is examined in the report, is dedicated to a project by K. Petrova, who shot videos examining the psychological status of those interviewed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The author is developing a questionnaire that examines how people felt during a lockdown. The means of video recording are used to look for a trend in dealing with alienation and the consequences of imprisonment on the mental state of the respondents.

Keywords:

Communication, Reading Books, Psychological Status, Pandemic.