Digital Media and the Making of Network Temporality

ISBN-13: 9781032004488 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 138 str.

Philip Pond

Opis

This book presents an exciting new theory of time for a world built on hyper-fast digital media networks.It explains how super-powerful computers and global webs of connection have remade time through speed.

Spis treści

1 Network time theory, 2 The scientific and the subjective positions, 3 Systems, interaction and perspective, 4 Time recoded, time recorded, 5 Measuring network time

O autorze

Philip Pond is Lecturer in Digital Media Research Methods at the University of Melbourne. He has written extensively about the relationship between digital technology, speed and informational crisis and his previous book explores the systemic causes of post-truth politics. He heads several research projects, including a multi-disciplinary effort to document political extremism online and an analysis of the influence of software in accelerating polarisation.