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The mediality of transmission and the materiality of communication result today more than ever in “acting at a distance” – an action whose agency lies in a medium. This book provides an overview into this crucial phenomenon, thereby introducing urgent questions of human interaction, the binding and breaking of time and space, and the entanglement of the material and the immaterial. Three vivid inquiries deal with histories and theories of mediality and materiality.

Media studies --- Nonbooks, PBS / Medien, Kommunikation/Medienwissenschaft --- Medienwissenschaften: Internet, digitale Medien und Gesellschaft --- Digitalisierung --- materiality --- mediality --- transmission --- communication --- Computernetzwerke und maschinelle Kommunikation --- Computermodellierung und -simulation

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Digital media everyday inscribe new patterns of time, promising instant communication, synchronous collaboration, intricate time management, and profound new advantages in speed. The essays in this volume reconsider these outward interfaces of convenience by calling attention to their supporting infrastructures, the networks of digital time that exert pressures of conformity and standardization on the temporalities of lived experience and have important ramifications for social relations, stratifications of power, practices of cooperation, and ways of life. Interdisciplinary in method and international in scope, the volume draws together insights from media and communication studies, cultural studies, and science and technology studies while staging an important encounter between two distinct approaches to the temporal patterning of media infrastructures, a North American strain emphasizing the social and cultural experiences of lived time and a European tradition, prominent especially in Germany, focusing on technological time and time-critical processes.

Philosophy. --- digital technology, infrastructures, media, temporal politics, time. --- digital technology, infrastructures, media, temporal politics, time.