24/7
Time and Temporality in the Network Society
Published on 30. May 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-0-8047-5197-1 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"This collection of thought-provoking essays addresses the relationship between contemporary times and technology, especially cybertechnology. In doing so, the essays demonstrate so very well Elliott Jaques' statement of the ultimate justification for studying time: "In the form of time is to be found the form of living.'' For by developing this collection, Hassan and Purser-and the essays' authors-have made an important contribution to understanding both time and life in the early 21st century."-Allen C. Bluedorn, author of The Human Organization of Time: Temporal Realities and Experience, University of Missouri-Columbia "The authors gathered here are among the leading theorists of the new shift in dimensional thought. Original, provocative, and sophisticated, their arguments will have a profound impact on social theorists and the emerging generation of digital scholars."
-Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne
More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Publishing group
Stanford University Press
Target group
Adult education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 tables, 4 figures
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 151 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
423 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-5197-1 (9780804751971)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Robert Hassan is a Research Fellow in the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne. Ronald E. Purser is a Professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University.
Content
@fmct:Contents @toc4:Foreword @tocca:Barbara Adam iii @toc4:Contributors iii @toc2:Introduction @tocca:Robert Hassan and Ronald E. Purser 1 @toc1:Part 1. Time in the Network Society @toc2:1 New Temporal Perspectives in the "High-Speed Society" @tocca:Carmen Leccardi 000 @toc2:2 Network Time @tocca:Robert Hassan 000 @toc2:3 Speed = Distance/Time: Chronotopographies of Action @tocca:Mike Crang 000 @toc2:4 Protocols and the Irreducible Traces of Embodiment: The Viterbi Algorithm and the Mosaic of Machine Time @tocca:Adrian Mackenzie 000 @toc1:Part 2. Digital Time: Temporal Dimensions of Media and Culture @toc2:5 Truth at Twelve Thousand Frames per Second: The Matrix and Time-Image Cinema @tocca:Darren Tofts 000 @toc2:6 The Fallen Present: Time in the Mix @tocca:Andrew Murphie 000 @toc2:7 Stacking and Continuity: On Temporal Regimes in Popular Culture @tocca:Thomas Hylland Eriksen 000 @toc1:Part 3. Temporal Presence @toc2:8 Indifference of the Networked Presence: On Time Management of the Self @tocca:Geert Lovink 000 @toc2:9 The Presence of Others: Network Experience as an Antidote to the Subjectivity of Time @tocca:Jack Petranker 000 @toc2:10 CyberLack @tocca:David R. Loy 000 @toc1:Part 4. Time in the Network Economy @toc2:11 Time Robbers, Time Rebels: Limits to Fast Capital @tocca:Ben Agger 000 @toc2:12 Finding Time and Place for Trust in ICT Network Organizations @tocca:Hans R'm' 000 @toc2:13 The Clock-Time Paradox: Time Regimes in the Network Society @tocca:Ida H. J. Sabelis 000 @toc4:Index 000