"Loading, please wait" – Temporality and (bodily) presence in mobile digital communication. (27th April 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sebald, Gerd
• Is Part Of: Time & society. Volume 29:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 990
• Page End: 1008
• Publication Date: 2020-04-27
• Subjects: Mobile digital communication -- waiting -- (bodily) presence -- temporality -- digital technology; Time -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Time -- Sociological aspects -- Periodicals; 304.23
• DOI: 10.1177/0961463X20916566
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-463X

Abstract

Mobile digital communications, as currently the most complex forms of communication, offer a broad view on the phenomenon of communication. The last ten years have seen the addition of new forms of communication (WhatsApp, Facebook, etc.) and the restructuring of a (growing?) share of traditional communication into digitalized forms. Taking these changes as a guideline, this article examines the concept of communication in its temporality, (use of) technology, and physicality and attempts to adapt this concept to current forms.