Digital media and the making of network temporality /
Pond, Philip, 1981-
Digital media and the making of network temporality / Philip Pond. - ix, 127 pages ; a22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Network time theory -- The scientific and the subjective positions -- Systems, interaction and perspective -- Time recoded, time recorded -- Measuring network time.
"This book presents an exciting new theory of time for a world built on hyper-fast digital media networks. Computers have changed the human social experience enormously. We're becoming familiar with many of the macro changes, but we rarely consider the complex, underlying mechanics of how a technology interacts with our social, political and economic worlds. And we cannot explain how the mechanics of a technology are being translated into social influence unless we understand the role of time in that process. Offering an original reconsideration of temporality, Philip Pond explains how super-powerful computers and global webs of connection have remade time through speed. The book introduces key developments in network time theory and explains their importance, before presenting a new model of time which seeks to reconcile the traditionally separate subjective and objective approaches to time theory and measurement"--
9781032004488
2021003672
Information technology--Social aspects.
Time--Sociological aspects.
Digital media--Social aspects.
HM851 / .P6559 2021
303.4833 / P773d
Digital media and the making of network temporality / Philip Pond. - ix, 127 pages ; a22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Network time theory -- The scientific and the subjective positions -- Systems, interaction and perspective -- Time recoded, time recorded -- Measuring network time.
"This book presents an exciting new theory of time for a world built on hyper-fast digital media networks. Computers have changed the human social experience enormously. We're becoming familiar with many of the macro changes, but we rarely consider the complex, underlying mechanics of how a technology interacts with our social, political and economic worlds. And we cannot explain how the mechanics of a technology are being translated into social influence unless we understand the role of time in that process. Offering an original reconsideration of temporality, Philip Pond explains how super-powerful computers and global webs of connection have remade time through speed. The book introduces key developments in network time theory and explains their importance, before presenting a new model of time which seeks to reconcile the traditionally separate subjective and objective approaches to time theory and measurement"--
9781032004488
2021003672
Information technology--Social aspects.
Time--Sociological aspects.
Digital media--Social aspects.
HM851 / .P6559 2021
303.4833 / P773d