[ecrea] Call for Abstracts: Special Issue on “Making time in digital societies” in New Media & Society

Call for Abstracts

Special Issue on “Making time in digital societies: Considering the 
interplay of media, data and temporalities” in New Media & Society

Guest Editors: Christine Lohmeier (University of Bremen), Anne Kaun 
(Södertörn University), & Christian Pentzold (University of Bremen)

Studying media and communication processes through the lens of time and 
temporality enjoys a long history. Waves of technological innovation 
such as mechanization and electrification have come with a profound 
reconfiguration of social time. This holds true for datafication too. 
Datafication – referring to processes of quantification and the 
transformation of evermore objects into data, as well as the automation 
of judgements, evaluations, and decision-making – requires us to 
rethink, once again, the relationship between media, data, and temporality.
The special issue of New Media & Society will address the continuities 
and disruptions emerging in the nexus of time and media. It addresses 
the challenges of acting in the present, acceding to the future, and 
mobilizing the past in increasingly datafied societies. We assume that 
the changing mediations of time leave their mark on the ways we process 
and order the pace, sequence, and rhythms of intersecting lives.
Contributions to this special issue will explore changes in the 
perception and conception of time that go hand in hand with 
technological change and provide a discussion on how to grasp these 
empirical variations theoretically. They are invited to scrutinize the 
frictions between a plurality of social temporalities and the tendencies 
to establish dominate modes of creating, keeping, and managing time. 
While the focus is on current developments, the issue also seeks to 
includecontributions that encompass a historically grounded and 
contextualizing discussion of the interplay between media, data, and 
temporality.

Papers could address but are not limited to the following themes:
• media use and the management of time • mediation and the communicative 
organization of time (e.g., through clocks, calendars, timetables)
• digital media technologies in relation to acceleration, 
(de)synchronization, or deceleration
• data-based modes of time making and time keeping • embodiment, affect, 
and temporality
• media, time, and material objects
• power struggles around mediated time and temporalities in movements of 
resistance or social change; temporal insurgency
• cultural and social negotiations of media and time
• temporal and technological arrangements between the past, present, and 
future
• interrelations between time, media, and other activities

Abstract submission: 1 May 2018
Notification of selected proposals: 1 June 2018
Full paper submission: 15 January 2019
Publication planned for 2020

Submissions:
Submissions should include name and affiliation of the author(s), an 
abstract of 500 words, and 3 to 5 keywords. They should be sent to the 
e-mail address no later than 1 May 2018: (mediatizedtime /at/ uni-bremen.de) 
Invited paper submission will be due 15 January 2019 and will be 
submitted directly to the submission site for New Media & Society: 
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nms where they will undergo peer review 
following the usual procedures of the journal. The invitation to submit 
a full article does not guarantee acceptance into the special issue. The 
special issue will be published in 2020.

In case you have any questions or suggestions, please get in touch: 
(mediatizedtime /at/ uni-bremen.de)
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