{"resolved":true,"match_type":"uuid","source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","requested_by":"printed_page","book":{"source_type":"original_book","book_id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","id":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","uuid":"0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title":"Pressed for Time The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism","normalized_title":"pressedfortimetheaccelerationoflifeindigitalcapitalism","author":null,"edition":null,"publisher":null,"year":null,"isbn":"9780226196473","isbns":["9780226196473","9780226196503"],"parsed":true,"ai_readable":true,"document_type":"book","page_count":228,"navigation_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","title_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/title/Pressed%20for%20Time%20The%20Acceleration%20of%20Life%20in%20Digital%20Capitalism","fixed_page_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","path_api_url_template":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/book/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page/{printed_page}","read_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/read/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50","page_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/page","search_url":"https://workshop.closeclaw.top/api/ai/books/0cf5c9df-7116-426e-ae21-ce72b2ccbe50/search"},"page":{"printed_page":154,"pdf_page":166,"physical_index":166,"physical_index_base":0,"printed_page_status":"recognized","page_sha256":"69739d7b2cc0b06c9fb232e3fe33537a2244991e1bbe9659e68e68a28ec84ad5"},"chapter":"Pressed for Time","content":"New Media Consumption\n\nThe salience for my argument of considering young people’s use of new media is not solely because they represent the future. Doing so immediately calls into question the stereotype that everyone has busy lives. As Richard Harper remarks, “Teenagers don’t bewail the fact that they have too many messages.”36 They communicate the most and yet delight in it.\n\nMoreover, rather than always being used with an eye to saving time, mobile devices like television can fill time when there are few other options. Technologies provide an important escape route for youth who feel trapped in situations not of their making. Leslie Haddon and Jane Vincent’s British study of children’s use of mobile phones found that long car journeys were often cited as examples of phone use.37 But children also cited times when they were with others—like parents—but wanted to be elsewhere. In such circumstances, using the mobile phone to play a game or listen to music are ways to mitigate a sense of boredom. It ofers new sites for separation and autonomy, allowing the person to be present but also absent or withdrawn. Children send texts because there is nothing else of interest to do, as well as for positive reasons. For them, intensive media use helps time pass more quickly. The fact that adults, who receive far fewer communications, often complain of being overloaded reflects cultural narratives about ICTs speeding up life rather than simply being a function of the absolute number of mediated communications.\n\nThis narrative, in turn, is predicated on portraying past decades as less media infused and less rushed than our time today. But such comparisons are very hard to make. Let’s take, for example, the time we used to spend watching television. Certainly, ownership of televisions has increased markedly, from 1.5 per average US household in 1970 to nearly 3 in 2010.38 This is not necessarily a good indicator of how much time we actually spend watching television and how this relates to the time we now spend on new media.\n\nA key issue is the extent to which new media displaces other ways of spending free time, and thus intensifies the pace of life. Yet there is little consensus about this. Even the figures on whether Internet use (for both communicating and informating) decreases television watching are disputed. According to most estimates, the amount of time given over to watching television seems remarkably large, on average accounting for about half of all leisure time. When this figure is added to estimates of Internet usage, there are not enough hours in the day for this to be plausible.\n\nChapter six\n\n154","previous_page":153,"next_page":155}