Time, Media and Modernity

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1 Time, Media and Modernity

2 Also by Emily Keightley CREATIVE MEMORY (with Michael Pickering) RESEARCH METHODS FOR MEMORY STUDIES (with Michael Pickering)

3 Time, Media and Modernity Edited by Emily Keightley Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University

4 Introduction, selection and editorial matter Emily Keightley 2012 Individual chapters Contributors 2012 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act First published 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress

5 Contents List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors vii ix x Introduction: Time, Media, Modernity 1 Emily Keightley Part I Times of Media Technologies 1 Sonic Horizons: Phonograph Aesthetics and the Experience of Time 25 Michael Pickering 2 The Times of Photography 45 Martin Lister Part II Times of Media Content 3 Temporality and Documentary 69 John Corner 4 Cinematic Temporality: Modernity, Memory and the Nearness of the Past 85 Alison Landsberg 5 Hello to All That: Credit Crunches, Great Depressions and Journalistic Retrojection 102 David Deacon Part III Global Temporalities 6 City Times: Negotiating Public Space in the Twenty-First Century City 123 Scott McQuire 7 Globital Time: Time in the Digital Globalised Age 143 Anna Reading v

6 vi Contents Part IV Local Temporalities 8 Present Memories: Indigenous Memory Construct and Cross-Generational Knowledge Exchange in Northern Australia 165 Amanda Kearney 9 Domestic Time in the Sensory Home: The Textures and Rhythms of Knowing, Practice, Memory and Imagination 184 Sarah Pink Conclusion: Making Time The Social Temporalities of Mediated Experience 201 Emily Keightley References 224 Index 238

7 List of Figures and Tables Figures 1.1 Son House with what appears to be a National Duolian. Photo by Dick Waterman View outside the Southern Gate of Palermo towards Monreale, Detail of Fig Detail of Fig Detail of Fig Park and trees outside the Porta Nuova, Palermo, Sicily, from Google Earth Europa Technologies Tele Atlas Map of a section of Palermo, Undated. Unknown. Postcard showing the Porta Nuova, Palermo (at the end of the street) Frequency of appearance of the terms Great Depression and/or Wall Street Crash 1 January 2007 to 31 October Number of articles referring to Great Depression and/or Wall Street Crash in British national newspaper coverage 1 September to 30 September Average number of items per day referring to Great Depression or Wall Street Crash by newspaper title (1 September to 30 September 2008) The dynamic of dis embedding The dynamic of dis connecting The dynamic of dis embodying Yanyuwa homelands, southwest Gulf of Carpentaria, northern Australia Still from the Crow and Chicken Hawk Malarrkarrka kulu a-wangka animation 177 vii

8 viii List of Figures and Tables 8.3 Still from the Crow and Chicken Hawk Malarrkarrka kulu a-wangka animation Still from the Brolga Kurdarrku animation Still from the Dugong Hunters li-maramaranja animation 178 Tables 5.1 Extent of references to the Great Depression or Wall Street Crash in British press coverage (September 2007 and September 2008) Nature of comparisons to contemporary events made in items referring to the Great Depression and/or Wall Street Crash The percentage of items where items referring to The Great Depression or Wall Street Crash were attributed directly to a news-source (September 2007 and September 2008) News sources with an attributed reference to either the Wall Street Crash or the Great Depression by whether a comparison with the 2008 Crisis was accepted, rejected or not made 116

9 Acknowledgements I would like to thank a number of people and institutions who have been instrumental in the production of this volume. My thanks go to the Leverhulme Trust who, by awarding me a three-year research grant, have enabled me to pursue my research interests in time and memory in everyday life from which this book emerged (grant reference F/00 261/ AC). I have benefited from innumerable discussions on this topic with my excellent colleagues from across the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. I am especially indebted to Professor Mike Pickering in this regard. Conversations with him about the issues dealt with in this book have been invaluable in the process of planning and compiling it. His willingness to comment on drafts of my own chapters has been incredibly helpful and his patience in this task is deeply appreciated. Thanks also go to all of the contributors to the book whose chapters have been both stimulating and insightful. Lastly, I am grateful to Felicity Plester, Catherine Mitchell and all of the staff at Palgrave Macmillan for facilitating the production of this book. ix

10 Notes on Contributors John Corner is currently Visiting Professor in Communication Studies at the University of Leeds and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Liverpool. He has published widely in books and journals, including internationally influential work on media theory, documentary film and television, media-political relations and cultural analysis. Books authored by him include Television Form and Public Address (1995); The Art of Record (1996), Critical Ideas in Television Studies (1999); the coauthored volume Public Issue Television (with Peter Goddard and Kay Richardson, 2007) and Theorising Media: Power, Form and Subjectivity (2011). Currently he is working with colleagues on a book exploring media genre and politics. David Deacon is Professor of Communication and Media Analysis and Head of Department, Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. He has published many articles on the sociology of news, media history and political communication. His recent work includes The British News Media and the Spanish Civil War: Tomorrow May Be Too Late (2008) and Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Media and Cultural Analysis (2007): with Michael Pickering, Peter Golding and Graham Murdock. Amanda Kearney is a senior lecturer in Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia. She has published in relation to Indigenous Australian anthropology, emotional geography, emerging ethnicities and intangible cultural heritage. Most recently her work involves a comparative analysis of ethnicity in the postcolonial spaces of Australia and Brazil. Her book Before the Old People and Still Today: An Ethnoarchaeology of Yanyuwa Places and Narratives of Engagement focuses on the emotional geographies of indigenous homelands in northern Australia and how this articulates across the lives of younger and older generations of Indigenous people. Emily Keightley is a Senior lecturer in Communication and Media Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. She has published her research in the areas of time, memory and everyday life in a number of international journals including International Journal of Social Research Methodology, European Journal of Cultural Studies x

11 Notes on Contributors xi and Media History. She is currently working on the book Creative Memory with Michael Pickering. She is also an assistant editor of Media, Culture and Society. Alison Landsberg is an Associate Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Her teaching is divided between the History and Art History Department and the Cultural Studies Ph.D. programme. She is the author of Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (2004) as well as numerous articles published in journals such as Body and Society, New German Critique, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society and Rethinking History. Her research has focused on the ethical and political potential of massmediated memories in the public sphere. Martin Lister is Professor Emeritus in Visual Culture in the Department of Culture, Media, and Drama, Faculty of Creative Arts, UWE, Bristol. He published some of the earliest work on the relationship of photography to new media technologies, including The Photographic Image in Digital Culture (1995) and From Silver to Silicon: A CD-ROM about Photography, Technology and Culture (1996). He has a particular interest in the place of photography within a new media ecology and recent work includes A Sack in the Sand: Photography and Information (2007) and the first and second editions of New Media: A Critical Introduction (2003 and 2008). He curated Images of Europe for Heresies, an online world retrospective of Pedro Meyer s photography (2008). He is an editor of the journal Photographies. Scott McQuire is Associate Professor and Reader in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he co-founded the Spatial Aesthetics programme for interdisciplinary research linking media, urbanism, art and social theory. He is the author and editor of seven books including The Media City: Media, Architecture and Urban Space (2008), which won the 2009 Jane Jacobs Publication Award presented by the Urban Communication Foundation, and the Urban Screens Reader (2009, co-edited with Meredith Martin and Sabine Niederer) (available at: Michael Pickering is Professor of Media and Cultural Analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. He has published in the areas of social and cultural history, the sociology of art and culture, and media and communication studies. His recent books include History, Experience and Cultural Studies (1997); Stereotyping: The Politics of Representation (2001); Creativity, Communication and Cultural

12 xii Notes on Contributors Value (2004), co-written with Keith Negus; Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour (2005/2009), co-edited with Sharon Lockyer; Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain (2008); Research Methods for Cultural Studies (2008); and Popular Culture, a four-volume edited collection (2010). He is currently working on a book titled Creative Memory with Emily Keightley, and a study of music in the workplace with Marek Korczynski and Emma Robertson. Sarah Pink is Professor of Social Sciences at Loughborough University. Her work, rooted in anthropological approaches is usually interdisciplinary and bridges theoretical and applied scholarship. Her more recent books include Situating Everyday Life: Practices and Places (2012) and the edited volume Advances in Visual Methodology (2012). Her current research focuses on theoretical, methodological and practical questions concerning media, energy, sensory experience, consumption, knowledge and sustainability. Anna Reading is Professor of Communication at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. She is a research associate at the University of Glasgow and a visiting professor at the University of Loughborough, UK. She is the author and editor of a number of books including Polish Women, Solidarity and Feminism, (1992); Communism, Capitalism and the Mass Media (1998), with Colin Sparks; The Media in Britain (1999), edited with Jane Stokes; The Social Inheritance of the Holocaust: Gender, Culture and Memory (2002); and Save As Digital Memories (2009), co-edited with Andrew Hoskins and Joanne Garde-Hansen. She is on the boards of Memory Studies, the Journal of Qualitative Communication Research, and the Journal of the Philosophy of Photography. She is a joint editor and Chair of the Board of Media, Culture and Society. She has written eight plays for the stage performed in the UK, Ireland, the US, Poland and India.