(Time and Temporality in the Network Society) By Robert Hassan (Author) Paperback on

by Robert Hassan

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.

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First published May 30, 2007

About the author

Robert Hassan is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He is the author of The Condition of Digitality, The Age of Distraction, and other books.

Reviews

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One of the major difficulties in writing about time is that it moves so fast these days. In 24/7: Time and Temporality in the Network Society, editors Robert Hassan and Roger E. Purser collect several essays by the most prominent time theorists of 2007. Featuring numerous references to PDAs, the collection focuses on the emerging constraints of an increasingly networked society. Ideas that we in 2017 take for granted, like the elision of work-time and leisure-time, are presented as relatively new. A continual question in the back of my mind while reading was, "What would these thinkers make of the sharing economy and the emergence of task-based employment?" The collection is a fantastic place to start for those just getting into thinking about time and temporality and delivers myriad insights that still hold true a decade after publication. In fact, the sense of how much time has passed and how much our relationship to time has changed already only strengthens many of the arguments made by these thinkers.