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As Time Goes By: Tracking Polychronic Temporalities in Journalism and Mediated Memory

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This chapter provides an analytical framework of mediated time that converges theoretical concepts from sociology and communication research. Late-modern digital societies are characterised by polychronicity: a temporality that is defined by the core mode acceleration and which is both constraining and emancipatory. Mediated memory is the example used to demonstrate the coping with abstract temporalities and processes of acceleration in public communication. Journalism acts as an agent of memory and may create and alter frames of relevance by connecting past, present and future. We finally argue that to a certain degree journalism seems to possess chronological flexibility and is able to shape processes of acceleration as well as deceleration in public communication. This research perspective still needs further investigation.

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  1. University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Irene Neverla

  2. German Climate Association, Berlin, Germany

    Stefanie Trümper

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Neverla, I., Trümper, S. (2019). As Time Goes By: Tracking Polychronic Temporalities in Journalism and Mediated Memory. In: Hartmann, M., Prommer, E., Deckner, K., Görland, S. (eds) Mediated Time. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24950-2_11

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