Title: Time, media and modernity /
Authors: Keightley, Emily, 1981-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Time perception Social aspects.; Time perception Psychological aspects.; Time in mass media.; Time perception in mass media.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.; Time perception.; Time Social aspects.; Mass media Social aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE Human Geography.; Media studies.; Media Studies.; Mass media Social aspects; Time perception; Time Social aspects
Abstract: " A wide ranging, interdisciplinary exploration of media time and mediated temporalities. The chapters explore the diverse ways in which time is articulated by media technologies, the way time is constructed, represented and communicated in cultural texts, and how it is experienced in different social contexts and environments."--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction; E. Keightley ; PART I: TIMES OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Sonic Horizons: Phonograph Aesthetics and the Experience of Time; M. Pickering The Times of Photography; M. Lister PART II: TIMES OF MEDIA CONTENT Temporality and Documentary; J. Corner Cinematic Temporality: Modernity, Memory and the Nearness of the Past; A. Landsberg Hello to All That: 'Credit Crunches', 'Great Depressions' and Journalistic Retrojection; D. Deacon PART III: GLOBAL TEMPORALITIES City Times: Negotiating Public Space in the 21st Century City; S. McQuire Globital Time: Time in the Digital Globalized Age; A. Reading PART IV: LOCAL TEMPORALITIES Present Memories: Indigenous Memory Constructs and Cross-generational Knowledge Exchange in Northern Australia; A. Kearney ; Domestic Time in the Sensory Home: the Textures and Rhythms of Knowing, Practice, Memory and Imagination; S. Pink ; Conclusion Making Time: The Social Temporalities of Mediated Experience; E. Keightley.