ISBN:
9781032004488
,
9781032004471
Language:
English
Pages:
ix,127 Seiten
Series Statement:
Routledge focus
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Pond, Philip, 1981- Digital media and the making of network temporality
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Information technology Social aspects
;
Time Sociological aspects
;
Digital media Social aspects
Abstract:
Network time theory -- The scientific and the subjective positions -- Systems, interaction and perspective -- Time recoded, time recorded -- Measuring network time.
Abstract:
"This book presents an exciting new theory of time for a world built on hyper-fast digital media networks. Computers have changed the human social experience enormously. We're becoming familiar with many of the macro changes, but we rarely consider the complex, underlying mechanics of how a technology interacts with our social, political and economic worlds. And we cannot explain how the mechanics of a technology are being translated into social influence unless we understand the role of time in that process. Offering an original reconsideration of temporality, Philip Pond explains how super-powerful computers and global webs of connection have remade time through speed. The book introduces key developments in network time theory and explains their importance, before presenting a new model of time which seeks to reconcile the traditionally separate subjective and objective approaches to time theory and measurement"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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