Mediated Time: Perspectives on Time in a Digital Age

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.

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.