Time, Media and Modernity

JOHN CORNER Visiting Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Leeds and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Liverpool, UKDAVID DEACON Professor of Communication and Media Analysis and Head of Department, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University, UKAMANDA KEARNEY Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales, AustraliaALISON LANDSBERG Associate Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USAMARTIN LISTER Professor Emeritus in Visual Culture, in the Department of Culture, Media, and Drama, Faculty of Creative Arts, UWE, Bristol, UK SCOTT MCQUIRE Associate Professor and Reader in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, AustraliaMICHAEL PICKERING Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UKSARAH PINK Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UKANNA READING Professor of Communication at the University of Western Sydney, Australia

• List of Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Note on Contributors Introduction: Time, Media, Modernity; E.Keightley PART I: TIMES OF MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES Sonic Horizons: Phonograph Aesthetics and the Experience of Time; M.Pickering The Times of Photography; M.Lister PART II: TIMES OF MEDIA CONTENT Temporality and Documentary; J.Corner Cinematic Temporality: Modernity, Memory and the Nearness of the Past; A.Landsberg Hello to All That: 'Credit Crunches', 'Great Depressions' and Journalistic Retrojection; D.Deacon PART III: GLOBAL TEMPORALITIES City Times: Negotiating Public Space in the 21st Century City; S.McQuire Globital Time: Time in the Digital Globalised Age; A.Reading PART IV: LOCAL TEMPORALITIES Present Memories: Indigenous Memory Constructs and Cross-generational Knowledge Exchange in Northern Australia; A.Kearney Domestic Time in the Sensory Home: the Textures and Rhythms of Knowing, Practice, Memory and Imagination; S.Pink Conclusion Making Time: The Social Temporalities of Mediated Experience; E.Keightley References Index