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This chapter delivers a reflection of the work of the Hungarian philosopher Kristóf Nyíri. He is one of the very few philosophers who regarded mobile communication and time. In Nyíri’s view, the mobile phone is the single unique instrument of mediated communication, and in this sense, time in mediated communication changes. He stresses the changing of time and the relevance of before and after. The mediated technological communication influences time, with cyclical elements leading to global time flow. Nyíri’s concepts offer important theoretical insights into the various forms of mediated time.
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The “Communications in the 21st Century” project was a joint interdisciplinary social science project, which was coordinated by T-Mobile Hungary—formerly Westel Mobile Telecommunications—and the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It was first launched in January 2001.
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My title for this project would be “The Mobile Phone as a Security Blanket”.
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Nyíri, K., Hartmann, M. (2019). It Began with an Interview…and Ended with a Text. In: Hartmann, M., Prommer, E., Deckner, K., Görland, S. (eds) Mediated Time. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24950-2_6
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