24/7 : time and temporality in the network society / edited by Robert Hassan and Ronald E. Purser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hassan, Robert, 1959-

Purser, Ronald E., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Information society.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Computers and civilization.

Physical Description:

xvii, 284 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Twenty-four seven

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Business Books, 2007.

Summary:

For better or worse, the information and communication revolution has transformed our economic, cultural, and political world. On an individual scale, many of the traditional social, political, and cultural habits of mind and ways of being that evolved under the regime of the clock are changing rapidly, including the way individuals save, spend, and optimize time. At the organizational level, the pacing of innovation, levels of production, and new product development are no longer temporally fixed due to the effects of living in a networked society and in the networked economy. 24/7 brings together leading thinkers from a variety of disciplines to analyze the differing relationships to time in an accelerated society. Offering much-needed insight and perspective into new issues and problems, this unique volume is the first to offer a wide range of cutting-edge thought on the new economic, cultural, and political world of the networked society. The book includes contributions from leading scholars in this area, such as Barbara Adam, Mike Crang, Thomas Hylland Erikson, and Geert Lovink.

Contents:

New temporal perspectives in the "high-speed society" / Carmen Leccardi

Network time / Robert Hassan

Speed = distance/time : chronotopographies of action / Mike Crang

Protocols and the irreducible traces of embodiment : the Viterbi algorithm and the mosaic of machine time / Adrian Mackenzie

Truth at twelve thousand frames per second : The matrix and time-image cinema / Darren Tofts

The fallen present : time in the mix / Andrew Murphie

Stacking and continuity : on temporal regimes in popular culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Indifference of the networked presence : on time management of the self / Geert Lovink

The presence of others : network experience as an antidote to the subjectivity of time / Jack Petranker

CyberLack / David R. Loy

Time robbers, time rebels : limits to fast capital / Ben Agger

Finding time and place for trust in ICT network organizations / Hans Rämö

The clock-time paradox : time regimes in the network society / Ida H. J. Sabelis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804751964

080475196X

9780804751971

0804751978

OCLC:

85783257