Making Time for Digital Lives

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Anne Kaun, Christine Lohmeier & Christian Pentzold: Making time for digital lives: Sketching the field and history of resisting dominant temporal regimes

Part I: Making time for….Disconnection

Chapter 1 Tim Markham
Subjective Recognition in a Distracted World: The Affordances of Affective Habuts and Temporal Discontinuities

Chapter 2 Ingrid Forsler & Carina Guyard
Screen time and the young brain – a contemporary moral panic?

Chapter 3 Magdalena Kania-Lundholm
The waves that sweep away: older Internet non- and seldom-users’ experiences of new technologies and digitalization

Chapter 4 Christian Schwarzenegger & Manuel Menke
Who are the New Men in Grey? Making sense of time, time-theft and temporal autonomy in the (non-)use of digital media

Part II: Making time for… Synchronization

Chapter 5 Martin Hand
Making Time, Configuring Life: smartphone synchronization and temporal orchestrationIntroduction

Chapter 6 Roxana Morosanu Firth, Sean Rintel & Abigail Sellen
Everyday time travel: Temporal mobility and multitemporality with smartphones

Chapter 7 Hannah Ditchfield & Peter Lunt
Re-Configuring Synchronicity and Sequentiality in Online Interaction: Multicommuniciation on Facebook Messenger

Part III: Making time for… Commodification

Chapter 8 Alex Beatti
Move slow and contemplate things: an app that drops users out from distracting aspects of the internet

Chapter 9 Mikolaj Dymek
‘Life Hacking’ Everyday Temporality – Project Managing Digital Lives of Tasks

Chapter 10 Carla Ganito & Catia Ferreira
Managing the flow of time: Disconnection through apps