24/7 : Time and Temporality in the Network Society / edited by Robert Hassan and Ronald E. Purser.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Purser, Ronald E, editor.

Hassan, Robert, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time--Sociological aspects.

Time.

Computers and civilization.

Information society.

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (i, 304 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 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 the leading scholars in this area, such as Barbara Adam, Mike Crang, Thomas Hylland Erikson, and Geert Lovink.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Contributors

Introduction

PART 1. Time in the Network Society

1 New Temporal Perspectives in the “High-Speed Society”

2 Network Time

3 Speed = Distance / Time: Chronotopographies of Action

4 Protocols and the Irreducible Traces of Embodiment: The Viterbi Algorithm and the Mosaic of Machine Time

PART 2. Digital Time: Temporal Dimensions of Media and Culture

5 Truth at Twelve Thousand Frames per Second: The Matrix and Time-Image Cinema

6 The Fallen Present: Time in the Mix

7 Stacking and Continuity: On Temporal Regimes in Popular Culture

PART 3. Temporal Presence

8 Indifference of the Networked Presence: On Time Management of the Self

9 The Presence of Others: Network Experience as an Antidote to the Subjectivity of Time

10 CyberLack

PART 4. Time in the Network Economy

11 Time Robbers, Time Rebels: Limits to Fast Capital

12 Finding Time and Place for Trust in ICT Network Organizations

13 The Clock-Time Paradox: Time Regimes in the Network Society

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 23, 2022).

ISBN:

1-5036-2536-2

OCLC:

1312726123