Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
M/C Journal
Publisher
Media and Culture
School
School of Arts and Humanities
RAS ID
30418
Abstract
In the contemporary West, experiences of time are shaped by—and inextricably linked to—the nature of media production and consumption. In Derrida and Steigler’s estimation, teletechnologies bring time “into play” and thus produce time as an “artifact”, that is, a knowable product (3). How and why time becomes “artifactually” produced, according to these thinkers, is a result of the various properties of media production; media ensure that “gestures” (which can be understood here as the cultural moments marked as significant in some way, especially public ones) are registered. Being so, time is constrained, “formatted, initialised” by the matrix of the media system (3). Subsequently, because the media apparatus undergirds the Western imaginary, so too, the media apparatus undergirds the Western concept of time. We can say, in the radically changing global mediascape then, digital culture performs and generates ontological shifts that rewrite the relationship between media, time, and experience. This point lends itself to the significance of the role of both new media platforms and new media texts in reconfiguring understandings between past, present, and future timescapes...
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Comments
Glitsos, L. (2019). From rivers to confetti: Reconfigurations of time through new media narratives. M/C Journal, 22(6). http://www.journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/issue/view/time