The Curving Mirror of Time

In cultural research the notion of time is a recurring phenomenon; temporality, timing and memory is a multilayered field of research. In journalism and media studies time has remained on the periphery of academic attention. Barbie Zelizer notes that the issue of temporality, especially for cultural scholars, was frequently used as a background variable for the shaping of the cultural inquiry of journalism. In addition, numerous scholars tracked the cultural parameters of journalism over time or in a given period (Zelizer 2004, 211-212).