Anne Kaun is associate professor in media and communication studies, director of studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School – BEEGS and programme director of the master’s programme in media, communication and cultural analysis at Sodertorn University. She is the author of Crisis and Critique. A History of Media Participation. Christian Pentzold is associate professor of media and communication studies with a focus onmedia society at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Sciences. Prior tojoining the University of Bremen in 2016, he was a lecturer at Technische Universität Chemnitz. Christine Lohmeier is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg. Her research interests are transcultural communication, media in everyday life, memory studies and qualitative approaches in general and ethnographic research methods in particular.

This thoughtful book explores how we actively construct, negotiate and transform digital timescapes. In particular, it highlights how practices of non-use, disconnection and resistance can be read as expressions of critical hope that enact versions of a concrete utopia. The book thus provides us with original and riveting material with which to challenge the cultural imperative of a fast-paced modernity.Judy Wajcman, author of Pressed for Time and The Sociology of Speed

• Table of ContentsIntroductionAnne Kaun, Christine Lohmeier & Christian Pentzold: Making time for digital lives: Sketching the field and history of resisting dominant temporal regimesPart I: Making time for….DisconnectionChapter 1 Tim MarkhamSubjective Recognition in a Distracted World: The Affordances of Affective Habuts and Temporal Discontinuities Chapter 2 Ingrid Forsler & Carina GuyardScreen time and the young brain – a contemporary moral panic?Chapter 3 Magdalena Kania-LundholmThe waves that sweep away: older Internet non- and seldom-users’ experiences of new technologies and digitalizationChapter 4 Christian Schwarzenegger & Manuel MenkeWho are the New Men in Grey? Making sense of time, time-theft and temporal autonomy in the (non-)use of digital mediaPart II: Making time for… SynchronizationChapter 5 Martin HandMaking Time, Configuring Life: smartphone synchronization and temporal orchestrationIntroduction Chapter 6 Roxana Morosanu Firth, Sean Rintel & Ab

Anne Kaun is associate professor in media and communication studies, director of studies at the Baltic and East European Graduate School – BEEGS and programme director of the master’s programme in media, communication and cultural analysis at Sodertorn University. She is the author of Crisis and Critique. A History of Media Participation. Christian Pentzold is associate professor of media and communication studies with a focus onmedia society at ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Sciences. Prior tojoining the University of Bremen in 2016, he was a lecturer at Technische Universität Chemnitz. Christine Lohmeier is a professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Salzburg. Her research interests are transcultural communication, media in everyday life, memory studies and qualitative approaches in general and ethnographic research methods in particular.

This thoughtful book explores how we actively construct, negotiate and transform digital timescapes. In particular, it highlights how practices of non-use, disconnection and resistance can be read as expressions of critical hope that enact versions of a concrete utopia. The book thus provides us with original and riveting material with which to challenge the cultural imperative of a fast-paced modernity.Judy Wajcman, author of Pressed for Time and The Sociology of Speed

• Table of ContentsIntroductionAnne Kaun, Christine Lohmeier & Christian Pentzold: Making time for digital lives: Sketching the field and history of resisting dominant temporal regimesPart I: Making time for….DisconnectionChapter 1 Tim MarkhamSubjective Recognition in a Distracted World: The Affordances of Affective Habuts and Temporal Discontinuities Chapter 2 Ingrid Forsler & Carina GuyardScreen time and the young brain – a contemporary moral panic?Chapter 3 Magdalena Kania-LundholmThe waves that sweep away: older Internet non- and seldom-users’ experiences of new technologies and digitalizationChapter 4 Christian Schwarzenegger & Manuel MenkeWho are the New Men in Grey? Making sense of time, time-theft and temporal autonomy in the (non-)use of digital mediaPart II: Making time for… SynchronizationChapter 5 Martin HandMaking Time, Configuring Life: smartphone synchronization and temporal orchestrationIntroduction Chapter 6 Roxana Morosanu Firth, Sean Rintel & Ab