The workshop aims to bring together and connect scholars of temporality and algorithmic media so as to identify common ground, stimulate exchange, and initiate critical comparative research. Organizing the workshop in connection to this year’s AoIR will allow us to particularly involve researchers from Latin America and interconnect their work and insights with the research drawn out by colleagues joining from other parts of the Global South as well as Europe, Australia, and North America.
This half-day workshop opens up a forum to think theoretically and empirically about digitally mediated temporalities. It features contributions that examine how and under what conditions users experience, assess, and deal with the ambivalent opportunities and constraints of having time and losing time that are an innate element of their daily engagement with algorithmic – or, algo-rhythmic – media.
As a pre-conference workshop of the Annual Meeting of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) in Niteroí, Brazil, the event is scheduled for 15 October 2025. It will be organized by Ludmila Lupinacci, Leeds University, Ignacio Siles, University of Costa Rica, and me.