CC BY 4.0Entschew, Elisa MariaElisa MariaEntschew2022-03-0611.2.20212021https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/26616910.24406/publica-r-26616910.1007/s41463-020-00103-9Digital communication between humans fundamentally changes the nature of communication. One inherent change is the acceleration of communication as a systematic change in societal life, particularly in the workplace. Often, the aim is to release time resources. However, the acceleration of communication also leads to the opposite: a lack of time. This paradoxical development can be based on an acceleration cycle whereby technologies seem to be a solution on the micro-level, but they are also a significant part of the problem on the meso-level.endigital communicationDigitalizationaccelerationpermanent availabilitytimerebound effectethicsMoraljournal article