Mediated Time

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Mediated Time

   • Maren Hartmann, Elizabeth Prommer, Karin Deckner, Stephan O. Görland

   Pages 1-21

3. Norms and Categories of Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. The Categorical Imperative of Speed: Acceleration as Moral Duty

      • Thomas Sutherland

      Pages 25-43

   3. The Normative Framework of (Mobile) Time: Chrononormativity, Power-Chronography, and Mobilities

      • Maren Hartmann

      Pages 45-65

   4. Eigenzeit. Revisited

      • Helga Nowotny

      Pages 67-85

   5. Exploring “Heterochronias”

      • Karin Deckner

      Pages 87-109

4. Categories, Norms and More: The Philosophy of Time—An Interview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. It Began with an Interview…and Ended with a Text

      • Kristóf Nyíri, Maren Hartmann

      Pages 113-125

5. Materialities and Places of and in Intermediate Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127

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   2. Doing Time/Time Done: Exploring the Temporalities of Datafication in the Smart Prison

      • Anne Kaun, Fredrik Stiernstedt

      Pages 129-147

   3. Media Futurism: Time Warps of Future Media Homes in Speculative Films and Corporate Videos

      • Deborah Chambers

      Pages 149-171

   4. Emplacing (Inter) Mediate Time: Power Chronography, Zones of Intermediacy and the Category of Space

      • Emily Keightley

      Pages 173-193

6. Power and Datafication of Time: A Dialogue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. “I’m Not Looking for a Singular Conception of Time”: An Interview with Sarah Sharma

      • Sarah Sharma

      Pages 197-216

7. Always Already On: Perspectives on Media and Time over Time

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 217-217

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   2. As Time Goes By: Tracking Polychronic Temporalities in Journalism and Mediated Memory

      • Irene Neverla, Stefanie Trümper

      Pages 219-237

   3. Local News Time on the Web

      • Henrik Bødker, Niels Brügger

      Pages 239-256

   4. Synchronising the Nation: Media Networks and Russian Time Reforms of the 1920s and 2010s

      • Maria Rikitianskaia

      Pages 257-272

8. The Time of (Your) Live: A Dialogue

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 273-273

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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.

• time
• mediated time
• data temporalities
• chronography
• (de)synchronicity
• mobile media
• digital communication
• cultural change

“Mediated Time is a theoretically ambitious deep-dive into the role and meaning of time as articulated through the lens of contemporary media. Joining an emerging literature on the reorganisation of time and space in post-industrial society, the volume explores not only the changing pace of everyday life due to mobile and digital technologies, but also the concept of mediated temporality itself. A must-read for those interested in the changing nature of time in our increasingly mediated lives.” (Laura Grindstaff, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis, USA)

“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)

• Berlin University of the Arts, Berlin, Germany

  Maren Hartmann, Karin Deckner

• University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

  Elizabeth Prommer

• University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  Stephan O. Görland

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. 

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