Polychronicity During Simultaneity: Mediated Time and Mobile Media

Prommer, Elizabeth

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“…Further, social app use represents only a subset of social connection; how participants engage in other forms of social connection (e.g. face-to-face, video calling) during and between checks of social apps is also crucial to overall perceptions of time (see Prommer, 2019). Future research can adopt complementary methodological approaches to untangle these processes.…”

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Tracking the temporal flows of mobile communication in daily life

Ross¹,

Bayer²,

Rhee³

et al. 2023

New Media & Society

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Prior theoretical perspectives assert that mobile media and communication accelerate time perception. To test this hypothesis, we coupled mobile app logs and experience sampling to capture social app use and time perception in daily life. Participants ( N = 132) provided self-reports of time perception ( n = 9,081) and recordings of social app use ( n = 2,193,655). Although people perceived time as relatively fast on average, results did not support an overall link between social app use and accelerated time perception. Conversely, social media use—but not messaging use—was associated with decelerated time perception. In addition, observed relationships between social app use and time perception were consistent across individuals. We conclude by considering how future mobile communication research will be challenged to measure and model how temporal flows are interwoven with mobile connection in the background of daily life.

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Tracking the temporal flows of mobile communication in daily life

Ross¹,

Bayer²,

Rhee³

et al. 2023

New Media & Society

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“…New media devices offer us a plurality of times, as they themselves operate at temporalities de‐ and re‐synchronizing online within the network. Indeed, modernism's acceleration and societal/global immediacy themselves create a plurality of tempos in which our activities take place (Prommer, 2019; Sharma, 2014a). We may combine media in the space of a moment, such as messaging while we watch TV, or social media scrolling while we listen to music; this intensifying the plurality of temporalities at play within that moment, in what can be seen as polychronicity (Prommer, 2019).…”

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“…Indeed, modernism's acceleration and societal/global immediacy themselves create a plurality of tempos in which our activities take place (Prommer, 2019; Sharma, 2014a). We may combine media in the space of a moment, such as messaging while we watch TV, or social media scrolling while we listen to music; this intensifying the plurality of temporalities at play within that moment, in what can be seen as polychronicity (Prommer, 2019). These plural temporalities are of evident relevance to our dealing with information and documents (see, e.g., McKenzie & Davies, 2022); they are referenced in components C and D of the model.…”

Section: The Nature Of Timementioning

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“…We can view Floridi's infosphere as where these multiple times great and small meet and take place, within the experience of onlife. The situation of onlife, and the polychronicity identified by Lee (1999), enforce Rosa's intensification of any given moment (Rosa, 2015), itself sometimes exacerbating concerns of shortness of time (Prommer, 2019; Wajcman, 2015). To consciously consider reality as informational in an always‐on societal scenario is a shift that risks an automatic anxiety of exhaustion at the idea of having to be absorbing and processing at all times, and the phenomena of information overload (Bawden & Robinson, 2021).…”

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“…Prommer discusses doing media , which is to say our continual interactions with ICTs, and the tasks logistics involved with the use of them. All this at both the local and global level, as users roaming both physically and online and for whom this makes a contemporary sense, so much so that even to avoid media (or attempt to), is an information practice: “Doing media in a mediatised world means you cannot NOT do media; even if you avoid media or social media, you have to actively avoid media and actively not do media, so therefore, you still do media” (Prommer, 2019, p. 303). There is “a polychronic flow of [media] use” (Prommer, 2019, p. 302) which is as much a thing of interruptions and disruptions as anything else.…”

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Times new plural: The multiple temporalities of contemporary life and the infosphere

Mason

Bawden

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Experiences of time and temporalities in contemporary life are analysed, with Floridi's conception of the infosphere as a central concept. The effects of instantaneous communication and digital information are shown to result not simply in the obvious acceleration of many aspects of life, but in multiple temporalities. The informational spaces of Floridi's hyperhistorical time form a new time‐based society, with our informational activities expressed in linear, cyclic, re‐cyclic, and iterative processes. Examples from the information sciences, particularly information seeking and “slow information,” are given, and an outline model for time literacy is presented.

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Tracking the Temporal Flows of Mobile Communication in Daily Life

Ross¹,

Bayer²,

Rhee³

et al. 2022

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Prior theoretical perspectives assert that mobile media and communication accelerate time perception. To test this hypothesis, we coupled mobile app logs and experience sampling to capture social app use and time perception in daily life. Participants (N = 132) provided self-reports of time perception (n = 9,081) and recordings of social app use (n = 2,193,655). Although people perceived time as relatively fast on average, results did not support an overall link between social app use and accelerated time perception. Conversely, social media use – but not messaging use – was associated with decelerated time perception. Additionally, person-specific analyses revealed that observed relationships between social app use and time perception were consistent across individuals. We conclude by considering how future mobile communication research will be challenged to measure and model how temporal flows are interwoven with mobile connection in the background of daily life.

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Polychronicity During Simultaneity: Mediated Time and Mobile Media

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Tracking the temporal flows of mobile communication in daily life

Tracking the temporal flows of mobile communication in daily life

Times new plural: The multiple temporalities of contemporary life and the infosphere

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