Summary Of Scannell's Article 'Dailiness'

Despite finding Harley’s article easier to absorb, I will be providing insight and knowledge of Scannell’s article “Dailiness” as I drew interest into his concepts and ideas behind the notion of temporality of everyday life. After Scannell’s reading, I could see myself reflecting different notions of time and ‘media time’, through his concepts of routinisation and the ‘care structures’ of dailiness I became exposed to the recurring cycle we live in.

The topic of routinisation and what Scannell refers to as “dailiness” has no doubt been influenced and characterised heavily by media. Through the “industrialisation of time”, Scannell argues that the temporal structure of broadcasting are fundamental to how it relates to our everyday life. This

I was able to understand this idea through Scannell’s use of the news to still be a recurring aspect for most families’ daily rituals. As Scannell says, ‘the care structures of news are designed to routinise eventfulness’ and in this way “news is part of the fabric of days for us’. This has allowed me to acknowledge and comprehend the nature and extent as to which these temporal qualities impact our life. It has given me reason to believe that these ‘care structures’ is actually something that provides us with order and organises out daily routines to sync up with media events, this is how our private life, through mediation connects to the public sphere. However, one could bring up the argument to Scannell as to whether technologies as the internet which allows live s=and 24/7 streaming of television programs, is resulting in a time shift to which traditional daily counties is moving away from television broadcasting structures. In this contemporary sense, I found that Scannell’s analysis of these broadcasting technologies is gradually becoming expired in light of these new “time shifting technologies” such as Netflix and