International Conference 2017 "The Mediatization of Time:
New perspectives on media, data and temporality" December 7-8, 2017
ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen, Germany
Recent innovations in the digitalization and datafication of communication fundamentally affect how people conceptualize, perceive and evaluate time to create the kind of world they live in. The conference invites participants to think through the interplay of media and data in respect of the way social time is constructed, modulated, and experienced. This allows to appreciate how new technologies and representations deeply affect the temporal organization of today’s media suffused societies, and it also sheds light on transformations in mediating time. We assume that mediatization as a fundamental societal change that interweaves with the development and spread of communication and information technologies leaves its mark on the ways we process and order the pace, sequence, rhythms and of social reality.
This conference invites to think through the role of media and data people have or had at hand to
time their interactions, relations, and states of being.
Vitalis, A., Tétu, J-F., Palmer, M. and
Castagna, B. (dir.) (2000). Médias, temporalités et démocratie.
Rennes : Apogée.
New perspectives on media, data and temporality" December 7-8, 2017
ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research
University of Bremen, Germany
Recent innovations in the digitalization and datafication of communication fundamentally affect how people conceptualize, perceive and evaluate time to create the kind of world they live in. The conference invites participants to think through the interplay of media and data in respect of the way social time is constructed, modulated, and experienced. This allows to appreciate how new technologies and representations deeply affect the temporal organization of today’s media suffused societies, and it also sheds light on transformations in mediating time. We assume that mediatization as a fundamental societal change that interweaves with the development and spread of communication and information technologies leaves its mark on the ways we process and order the pace, sequence, rhythms and of social reality.
This conference invites to think through the role of media and data people have or had at hand to
time their interactions, relations, and states of being.
_________________ ABSTRACT ____________________
« Recent French perspectives on temporalities in
media and communication research »
Jean-Claude DOMENGET et Carsten WILHELM
In 2016, the French society for information and
communication sciences (SFSIC) held its 20th congress on the theme
« Time and Temporalities in information-communication » in Metz,
France. This nationwide congress, which takes places every two years, is the
major scientific event structuring the field of information and communication
sciences (SIC) in France. This recent edition questioned the advances in
research on the notions of
info-communicational time and temporalities, the necessity of a critical vigilance on the use of time,
on temporalities in their classic form as well as in digital contexts. It
furthermore developed research questions
emerging due to socio-technical evolutions. Following the peer reviewed
selection of contributions, their presentations to the community and the
editorial work following the congress, it appears that the question of
mediatized times (our plural) has
evolved. Our contribution will sketch this evolution and present the themes and
emerging research questions presented in the congress. This will allow us to
pinpoint multiple research perspectives on our shared object of research.
The paradigm of “mediatized time” is one of the oldest
ones in France when it comes to analyzing the relationship between media, time and temporality. From the
sixties onwards, research has addressed live broadcast on television. In the
eighties and nineties, critical approaches have centered on the social and
political consequences of media time (Vitalis, Tétu, Palmer et Castagna 2000),
others on the different forms of the representation of time and its mise en
recit by the media (Lits, 1995), on television flow, programmed media time,
etc. An original approach has been interested in the temporalities of reception
and the use of media inspired by French sociology of use (Thévenin et Wilhelm
2017). These different approaches are
characterized by an international outlook, at least at its beginnings with
Italian inspiration (Domenget et Aroldi, 2003), as well as a rich supply of
paradigms (narratological , socio-technical, socio-political, organizational).
They have, however, never succeeded in becoming a transversal domain of study as
has, at a certain point for example, the question of the territoire.
The 20th congress has allowed us to
identify several current research topics concerning the question of time and
temporality in SIC.The first questions time
and temporalities in mediation devices (dispositifs de médiation) in
relation to social time (Lamy and Carré, 2017). These contributions deal specifically
with the transformation of our relationship to time, its constraints, limits
and potential. We will thus be able to evoke how media space-time shapes our own
relation to time (Lafon). The second theme deals with the links between communication and organizations, through temporal
accelerations, at the heart of the West’s social-liberal modernity (Lépine,
Alemanno and Le Moënne, 2017). Indeed, these transformations are linked to an
"ephemerization of the present", to dyschronias that produce many
tensions. Nevertheless, they also produce adjustments allowing for a
differentiated reappropriation of time. These changes have been addressed in
the field of information and communication technologies for learning (Bessières)
as well as health (Lamy). A third theme focuses on time in arts and culture, transformed by so-called cultural or
culture industries (Bonaccorsi, Collet and Raichvarg, 2017). It is concerned
with the place that communication devices and information systems can claim in
the cultural inscription or de-inscription of cultural objects and phenomena.
Taking into account the place of history in the communicational thought of
culture (Moeglin) should allow to analyze the industrial futures of cultural
objects as well as their patrimonial temporalizations. A final theme
contributes towards an epistemology of information and communication sciences
on temporalities, through concepts and
methods (Domenget, Miège and Pélissier, 2017). This is still work in progress
needs since, as one of the issues raised by researchers states, there is a
tropism of research on the "times of the SIC" (Gallezot and Marty)
for short-time phenomena, taking place in the present or the future at the
expense of taking into account phenomena of a longer duration (George and
Sénécal). However, researchers propose and experiment new research practices
(Mercier), allowing to think collectively about the digital ecosystem
(Zacklad).
After having established these themes and approaches,
our contribution will propose several possible research perspectives. A first
deals with the relationship between a perception of time at the level of the
individual and the long-term history. A second perspective concerns the
analysis of the temporal culture of societies in late modernity, from the point
of view of acceleration (Rosa, 2010). A final perspective aims to reinforce the
consideration of the cultural dimension in the analysis of temporalities and in
the study of our objects of research (Hall, 1984). On arrival, if
interdisciplinarity seems essential, and in contrast to the movement provoked
by academic institutionalization which has meant for most humanities and social
sciences an increased specialization and a closure from neighboring
disciplines, present info-communicational approaches would benefit from an
ecological or ethical effort, which constitutes the basis of a new collective
representation of our relationship to time (Grossin, 1996).
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