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Digital media perpetuates every aspect of our lives, including our temporal perceptions. Time and attention have become one of the most precious resources, for users as well as corporate business. This book sheds light on these critical connections and how they influence not only our daily lives, but also how they exist in emerging power structures. It brings advances in the anthropological thinking about time into conversation with theorisations of media to develop an understanding of how media and time affect each other while keeping human experiences at the heart of the conversation.
“The book offers an in-depth examination of the entanglements of media and time. A significant contribution of the edited volume is the multiplicity of contributions and perspectives exploring how time regimes and pressures affect people from different parts of the world.” • Alica Repenning, Institute for Geography and Geology
Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include media and digital anthropology; conflict and peace studies; environmental anthropology; activism and brokerage. She is the author and editor of numerous books, including Cyberidentities at War (2005, Transcript), Theorising Media and Practice (2010, Berghahn),The Cultural Dimension of Peace (2015, Palgrave), and Theorising Media and Conflict (2020, Berghahn).
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Introduction. Theorising Media and Time
Birgit Bräuchler and Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
SECTION 1. TIME REGIMES
1. Communalising the Future: Indigenous Media and their Expansion of Calendar Time Across the US-Mexican Border
Ingrid Kummels
2. Temporal (De)Hierarchisations: Modernist Tropes and Islamic Media Practices
Martin Slama
SECTION 2. PRESENTISM AND BEYOND
3. From Presentism to Long Time: The New Regime of Historicity Caught Between the Anthropocene and Longtermism
Olivier Driessens
4. Working in the Never-Ending Now: Presentism in Digital Journalism
Gudrun Rudningen
SECTION 3. CRISIS TEMPORALITIES
5. Media, Time and Polycrisis in a Hybrid Media World
Birgit Bräuchler and John Postill
6. Polymedia and the Remediation of an Iranian Conflictual Past: An Exile Photo Archive as a Form of Resistance
Cathrine Bublatzky
SECTION 4. ARCHIVING TEMPORALITIES
7. The Affect of Media-Time: Reflections from a Sociocultural Anthropologist in Audio-Visual Archives in Contemporary Cairo
Ali Yasser Atef
8. Entangled Archives and Infrastructures: Tracing and Reconstructing Sociotechnical Histories, Biographies and Digital Sovereignty in Northwestern Ontario, Canada
Philipp Budka
SECTION 5. ALGORITHMIC TIME 221
9. Colonising Digital Time: A Study of Users’ Temporal Experience on Digital Platforms
Riccardo Pronzato
10. Can the Worker- as- Platform- User Flex?
Simiran Lalvani
Afterword. Untimely Mediations
Ann Rigney
Index