[Commlist] New book: Theorising Media and Time: Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics of Time

New edited volume:

Theorising Media and Time: Temporalities, Media Practices and Politics 
of Time in a Digital Era
Edited by Birgit Bräuchler and Nina Grønlykke Mollerup
Afterword by Ann Rigney

https://www.berghahnbooks.com/title/BraeuchlerTheorising
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October 2026

"The book offers an in-depth examination of the entanglements of media 
and time. A significant contribution of the edited volume is the 
multiplicity of contributions and perspectives exploring how time 
regimes and pressures affect people from different parts of the world." 
. Alica Repenning, Institute for Geography and Geology


Contents

Introduction: Theorising Media and Time Birgit Bräuchler and Nina 
Grønlykke Mollerup
SECTION 1. TIME REGIMES 1. Communalising the Future: Indigenous Media 
and their Expansion of Calendar Time Across the US-Mexican Border Ingrid 
Kummels
2. Temporal (De)Hierarchisations: Modernist Tropes and Islamic Media 
Practices Martin Slama

SECTION 2. PRESENTISM AND BEYOND 3. From Presentism to Long Time: The 
New Regime of Historicity Caught Between the Anthropocene and 
Longtermism Olivier Driessens
4. Working in the Never-Ending Now: Presentism in Digital Journalism 
Gudrun Rudningen

SECTION 3. CRISIS TEMPORALITIES 5. Media, Time and Polycrisis in a 
Hybrid Media World
Birgit Bräuchler and John Postill
6. Polymedia and the Remediation of an Iranian Conflictual Past: An 
Exile Photo Archive as a Form of Resistance
Cathrine Bublatzky

SECTION 4. ARCHIVING TEMPORALITIES 7. The Affect of Media-Time: 
Reflections from a Sociocultural Anthropologist in Audio-Visual Archives 
in Contemporary Cairo
Ali Yasser Atef
8. Entangled Archives and Infrastructures: Tracing and Reconstructing 
Sociotechnical Histories, Biographies and Digital Sovereignty in 
Northwestern Ontario, Canada Philipp Budka

SECTION 5. ALGORITHMIC TIME 9. Colonising Digital Time: A Study of 
Users' Temporal Experience on Digital Platforms Riccardo Pronzato
10. Can the Worker- as- Platform- User Flex?
Simiran Lalvani

Afterword. Untimely Mediations Ann Rigney


About the editors:
Birgit Bräuchler is Associate Professor at the Department of 
Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Her research interests include 
media and digital anthropology; conflict and peace studies; 
environmental anthropology; activism and brokerage. She is the author 
and editor of numerous books, including Cyberidentities at War (2005, 
Transcript), Theorising Media and Practice (2010, Berghahn), The 
Cultural Dimension of Peace (2015, Palgrave), and Theorising Media and 
Conflict (2020, Berghahn).

Nina Grønlykke Mollerup is Associate Professor at the Department of 
Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her 
research investigates how images of violence are produced and how they 
are used to establish truths and narratives by following shifting 
understandings of images over time, particularly in relation to human 
rights and justice.

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