ABSTRACT
Slow food. Fast company. Real time. Live-stream. Quik Stop (or In-N-Out). Stop action. Slofie. Slow travel. The forms, tempos and rhythms of time are ever-present in contemporary socio-cultural life. The temporalities of contemporary experience are often heavily mediated by a range of socio-technical interventions. Through a range of human and digital processes, time is contested, enhanced, stretched, shrunk, played with and reconfigured. What do our perceptions, imaginations, experiences, practices of time do to the way we experience a given moment? And how do we subsequently represent that temporal experience to others? Through comparative digital ethnographic analysis across several two livestreaming travel experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, this chapter investigates the roles played by time in the process of practicing, producing and presenting momentary experiences to others through social media. In doing so, it seeks to explain how human sociality is altered by the mediation of time and space via digital platforms, novelly co-opting subjectivities of experience and its subjective representations.
