Digital Media and the Making of Network Temporality

"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"-- Provided by publisher This book presents an exciting new theory of time for a world built on hyper-fast digital media networks. Cover 1 Half Title 2 Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Table of Contents 6 List of figures 8 List of table 10 1 Network time theory 12 2 The scientific and the subjective positions 36 3 Systems, interaction and perspective 61 4 Time recoded, time recorded 88 5 Measuring network time 116 Index 134 Time,Theory;,Subjective,Positions;,Time,Recoded;,Network,Time;,Interaction Time Theory,Subjective Positions,Time Recoded,Network Time,Interaction