Anne (Hrsg.) Kaun

Making Time for Digital Lives

Beyond Chronotopia

Buch

It is said that the ontology of data resists slowness and also that the digital revolution promised a levelling of the playing field. Both theories are examined in this timely collection of chapters looking at time in the digital world. Since data has assumed such a paramount place in the modern neoliberal world, contemporary concepts of time have undergone radical transformation. By critically assessing the emerging initiatives of slowing down in the digital age, this book investigates the role of the digital in ultimately reinforcing neo-liberal temporalities. It shows that both speed-up and slow down imperatives often function as a form of… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Lohmeier, Christine (Hrsg.) / Pentzold, Christian (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-78661-297-7
EAN: 9781786612977
Produktnummer: 33427913
Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 218 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D1.7 cm 494 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 494

Über den Autor

Anne Kaun is associate professor in media and communication studies, director of studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School - BEEGS and programme director of the master's programme in media, communication and cultural analysis at Sodertorn University. She is the author of Crisis and Critique. A History of Media Participation. Christian Pentzold is associate professor of media and communication studies with a focus onmedia society at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Sciences. Prior tojoining the University of Bremen in 2016, he was a lecturer at Technische Universität Chemnitz. Christine Lohmeier is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg. Her research interests are transcultural communication, media in everyday life, memory studies and qualitative approaches in general and ethnographic research methods in particular.