Making Time for Digital Lives: Beyond Chronotopia - Hardcover

Kaun, Anne; Pentzold, Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786612976 ISBN 13: 9781786612977

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020

Synopsis

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 biopolitical social control necessary to contemporary global capitalism. Problematic paradoxes emerge where a successful slow down and digital detox ultimately are only successful if the individual returns to the world as a more productive, labouring neoliberal subject. Is there another way? The chapters in this collection, broken up into three parts, ask that question.

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About the Authors

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 on media society at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Sciences. Prior to joining 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786612976
• ISBN 13: 9781786612977
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 206