Halliki Harro-Loit and Katrin Kello (eds), The Curving Mirror of Time

摘要

At the start of this book, Halliki Harro-Loit notes that time and temporal phenomena have remained on the periphery of media and journalism studies. This relative neglect is beginning to be rectified, following the publication of Emily Keightley's edited collection, Time, Media and Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), which explored the ways in which communications media are closely involved in a range of modern experiences of time, and not only those associated with speed and acceleration. More particularly, the book considered how time is structured by media technologies, how it is represented in cultural texts, and how it is experienced in different social contexts and environments. This more recent edited collection has a more specific focus, looking at the relations between time, memory and commemoration in news journalism. It is concerned with the temporal structures of news journalism, the connections between past and present in day-to-day news stories, and the influence of journalistic discourse on collective memory.