Open this publication in new window or tab >>2020 (English)In: Making Time for Digital Lives: Beyond Chronotopia / [ed] Anne Kaun, Christine Lohmeier & Christian Pentzold, London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020, p. 43-62Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The aim of this chapter is to empirically explore, understand, and discuss the digitalization of society as part of the shared and negotiated experience among older non-and seldom-users of networked technologies (ICT). More specifically, it focuses on how older people reflect upon social change brought by the so-called waves of mediatization, with a particular focus on digitalization (Couldry and Hepp, 2017). Digitalization is understood here as the third wave of mediatization that relates to the computer, internet, and mobile phone. Of particular interest here is the internet, namely the contemporary infrastructure that links media devices with computers and large data centers. It is also an infrastructure that has undergone rather fast transformation from a “closed, publicly funded and publicly oriented network for specialist communication into a deeply commercialized, increasingly banal space for the conduct of social life itself”(Couldry and Hepp, 2017, 50, emphasis in the original). Mediation and the communicative organization of time are usually approached in terms of clocks, calendars, and timetables. However, being an older person is a specific position in the life course, which allows people to reflect back upon the social change prompted by technological development. It also offers a perspective on the lived experience of different waves of mediatization, including digitalization. This chapter departs from the idea that there is not one universal and straightforward experience of time, speed, and technology but rather assumes multiple temporal landscapes, which come into play in different contexts and situations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2020
Keywords
Temporality, Time, Digital Lives, Practices, Disconnection
National Category
Sociology (excluding Social Work, Social Psychology and Social Anthropology) Media Studies
Research subject
Research Profiles 2009-2020, Intercultural Studies
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:du-35375 (URN)978-1-78661-297-7 (ISBN)978-1-78661-298-4 (ISBN)
2020-11-052020-11-052021-11-12Bibliographically approved