Overview
Presents a key intervention in the emerging research field of media and time
Collects prominent experts in Sociology, Media Studies, and Science and Technology Studies
Combines an historical overview of the subject and interviews with leading researchers with new, cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Categories, Norms and More: The Philosophy of Time—An Interview
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Materialities and Places of and in Intermediate Time
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Power and Datafication of Time: A Dialogue
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Always Already On: Perspectives on Media and Time over Time
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About this book
Exploring mediated time, this book contemplates how far (and in what ways) media and time are intertwined from a diverse set of theoretical and empirical angles. It builds from theoretical discussions concerning the question of mediation and the normative framing of time (especially acceleration) and works its way through questions of time for/of one’s own, resisting temporalities, polychronicity, in-between-time, simultaneity and other time concepts.
It further examines specific time frames, imaginations of a media future and the past, questions of online journalism and multitasking or liveness. Bringing together authors from diverse backgrounds, this collection presents a rich combination of milestone articles, new empirical research, enriching theoretical work and interviews with leading researchers to bridge sociology, media studies, and science and technology studies in one of the first book-length publications on the emerging field of media and time.
Reviews
“The accelerated pace of everyday life has become a major topic for the social sciences in recent decades. All too often, digitalization is seen as the cause. So a volume such as this, that examines the mediation of time from a number of theoretical and empirical perspectives, is a welcome addition [to the social sciences]. The range of excellent contributors and breadth of topics covered ensures that it will be read widely.” (Judy Wajcman, Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maren Hartmann is Professor of Communication and Media Sociology at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Germany. She has published widely on media and time; appropriation, especially domestication; media and mobilities; and home and homelessness.
Elizabeth Prommer is Professor and Chair for Communication and Media Studies and Director of the Institute for Media Research at the University of Rostock, Germany. Her research circulates around the ‘moving picture’ across platforms; converging media environments; and gendered media production.
Karin Deckner is a researcher at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Germany, where she is currently working on her Ph.D. about the dematerialization of 'keys'.
Stephan Oliver Görland is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Media, Communication & Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen, Germany, and associate member of the Berlin Institute for Integration and Migration Research (BIM) at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mediated Time
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on Time in a Digital Age
Editors: Maren Hartmann, Elizabeth Prommer, Karin Deckner, Stephan O. Görland
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24950-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24949-6Published: 13 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-24952-6Published: 13 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-24950-2Published: 04 November 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 365
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Studies, Culture and Technology, Media Sociology, Sociological Theory, Sociology of Culture, Digital/New Media