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Digital timescapes : technology, temporality and society / Rob Kitchin.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Kitchin, Rob, author.
Contributor:
ProQuest ebook central
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Time--Social aspects.
Time.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Information technology.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
Cambridge ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, 2023.
Contents:
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I The Nature of Time and Temporalities
1 Time, temporality and timescapes
The social production of temporality
The production of time
An eventful notion of time
(Re)producing temporal power
Experiential, embodied, subjective time
Producing the past and future
Time and space
Timescapes
2 Digital technologies and temporalities
Technologies, temporality and modernity
Digital technologies and temporality
Network time, real-time and the present
Pace, tempo, rhythms and synchronicity
Past and future
Conclusion
Part II Digital Timescapes
3 History and memory
Datafication and mnemotechnologies
Digital archives and data infrastructures
Digital memory
Digital history and heritage
4 Politics and policy
Politics
Policy
Policy-making in time
Policy-making by time
5 Governance and governmentality
Governance, governmentality and temporality
Real-time management
Anticipatory governance
6 Mobility and logistics
Everyday mobility and scheduling
Keeping traffic moving
Logistics and chains of supply
7 Planning and development
Planning
Fast and speculative urbanization
Deceleration and shrinking cities
8 Work and labour
The time-space configuration of global labour
Platforms, gig work and precarity
Automation, autonomous systems and smart work
Time management
Temporal surveillance and control
Part III Remaking Digital Timescapes
9 Temporal power and its consequences
Temporal inequalities
The tyranny of real-time
Time scarcity and temporal pressures
Retention, loss, access and the revision of history and memories
Who is the future for?
10 Transforming temporal power
Temporal ethics and justice
An ethics of temporal care
An ethics of forgetting
An ethics of deceleration, disconnection and asynchronicity
Ethics for the future
Temporal justice
Transforming temporal power
Community archives and counter-archiving
Slow computing
Slow cities and urban time policies
Fast activism
Participatory futuring
Conclusion
11 Making sense of digital timescapes
A research agenda
References
Index
EULA
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2023).
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ISBN:
9781509556854
1509556850
Publisher Number:
40031677135
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