新書推薦:Time and Temporality in the Network Society

Hassan, R. & Purser R. E.(2007). 24/7:Time and Temporality in the Network Society. California: Stanford University Press

本書的主題是「時間」,乃從時間概念出發,談資訊傳播科技與社會的互動。

編者集結十三篇相關領域學者撰寫的論文,並將這十三篇論文分為四主題,依序舖陳當代社會的「時間」樣貌。


書中第一部分主題「時間與網絡社會(Time And the Network Society)」,乃討論時間隨資訊跟傳播科技浮現而出現的轉型,做一歷史、社會與科技面向的回顧瀏覽。

第二部分「數位時間:時間幅員(Digital Time: Temporal Dimensions)」討論數位化形成的各種傳播媒體形式,如何改變我們的時間感(temporal persceptions)。

第三部分「時間現身(Temporal Presence)」則把注意力轉移至更深的存有論與本體論(existential and ontologocal)問題,討論網絡科技中,時間中的人類意識(human consciousness of time)。

最後第四部份「時間與網絡經濟(Time in the Network Economy)則討論,資訊傳播科技對組織、經營管理、政治經濟層面中「時間」的劇烈影響。

以上四部份形構為本書,是一本可做為探索當代「時間」內涵的專門著作。

書目大綱:

Foreword/ Barbara Adam
Contributors
Introduction/ Robert Hassan and Ronald E. Purser

Part 1. Time And the Network Society
New temporal perspectives in the "high-speed society" / Carmen Leccardi
Network time / Robert Hassan
Speed = distance/time : chronotopographies of action / Mike Crang
Protocols and the irreducible traces of embodiment : the Viterbi algorithm and the mosaic of machine time / Adrian Mackenzie

Part 2. Digital Time: Temporal Dimensions
Truth at twelve thousand frames per second : the matrix and time-image cinema / Darren Tofts
The fallen present : time in the mix / Andrew Murphie
Stacking and continuity : on temporal regimes in popular culture / Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Part 3. Temporal Presence
Indifference of the networked presence : on time management of the self / Geert Lovink
The presence of others : network experience as an antidote to the subjectivity of time / Jack Petranker
Cyberlack / David R. Loy

Part 4. Time in the Network Economy
Time robbers, time rebels : limits to fast capital / Ben Agger
Finding time and place for trust in ICT network organizations / Hans Rm
The clock-time paradox : time regimes in the network society / Ida H. J. Sabelis.

編者簡介:

Robert Hassan
ARC Senior Research Fellow, Media and Communications,U. of Melbourne
PhD : Cultural Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/robert-hassan.html 

Ronald Purser
professor of management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University
PhD : Organizational behavior, Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University

圖書館連結點此