Mediated 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.

1. Introduction: Introducing Mediated Time.- 2. The Categorical Imperative of Acceleration: Speed as Moral Duty.- 3. The Normative Framework of (Mobile) Time: Chrononormativity, Power-Chronography and Mobilities.- 4. Exploring "Heterochronias".- 5. Eigenzeit. Revisited.- 6. An interview with Kristof Nyiri (Budapest, Hungary).- 7. Doing Time: The Data Temporalities in the Prison Context.- 8. Past and Future Media Homes: Digital Imaginaries of Early TV Homes and Homes of the Future.- 9. Emplacing (Inter)Mediated Time.- 10. An interview with Sarah Sharma (University of Toronto, CAN), commented upon by Judy Wajcman (London School of Economics, UK).- 11. Time as Key Category for Cultural Change.- 12. Synchronizing the Nation: History of Time Signals in Russia.- 13. Communication Efficiency: A New Perspective to Understand the Communication Technology Progress and Its Impacts on the National Economy.- 15. The Unfolding of Digital Journalism - Embodied Time(s) and News Events.- 16. ReallyDead Time?: Mobile Media Use in Interstices.- 17. Simultaneity during Polychronicity: Mediated Time and Mobile Media.- 18. Philip Auslander (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) in conversation with Karin van Es (Utrecht University, Netherlands).- 19. Conclusion.