Deals with cross-cultural similarities and differences in using digital technology with a display in everyday life (ranging from the use of mobile phones, tablets, laptop computers, and computers, to the watching of television) and via the use of app’s (health, well-being, transportations, games, and so on). People from different cultures have different views of time or the way persons deal with time. Events may occur on regular basis or on-off-basis (e.g., tourist events and sports events). Different cultures have different time horizons, which refer to the length of the planning horizon and the length of time a person uses to think about the past or the future.
Published in Chapter:
The Screens of Our Time: On “Time” – Implications for Screen Time Research
Mikael Wiberg (Umeå University, Sweden) and Britt Wiberg (Umeå University, Sweden)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8163-5.ch006
Abstract
Despite the increasing interest in understanding screen time and its effects, there are very few papers published on how the notion of “screen time” is conceptualized – both in terms of what “time” refers to in this context and in terms of what a “screen” denotes nowadays. In an attempt to contribute to this lack of theoretical grounding, the authors outline four theoretical grounds for understanding time. Further, they suggest that the notion of “screen” needs to be problematized in similar ways. In this chapter, the authors illustrate how the four different conceptualizations of “time” in relation to this broader understanding of screens open up for a new range of studies of “screen time,” and they suggest that this conceptualization is necessary in order to move toward.