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Digital timescapes : technology, temporality and society / Rob Kitchin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kitchin, Rob, author.
- 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).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781509556854
- 1509556850
- Publisher Number:
- 40031677135
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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