Infrastructuring Leap Seconds

Abstract

“Enjoy the moments of your life.” With this slogan, the video app Leap Second promises to keep a special kind of diary: App users are invited to create one-second videos, select the best second for each day, and compile the individual seconds of the day into video diaries. This way they are able to review the days of a month or a whole year in seconds, and finally share these quotidian, yet outstanding moments of their lives via social media. On Instagram the app is advertised with small example videos: In seconds, outdoor and indoor shots alternate, slower and more...