Robert Hassan

Broschiertes Buch

The Chronoscopic Society

Globalization, Time and Knowledge in the Network Economy

Beschreibung

In this groundbreaking book, media and time theorist Robert Hassan looks at the effects of the nexus between neoliberal globalization and the information technology revolution upon the production and dissemination of knowledge in technologically advanced societies. This nexus has created what Hassan calls an "information ecology", an environment that affects the individual, culture and society in the same dialectical ways as the natural and built environment. Significantly, this information ecology generates its own temporality, that of "network time", a digitally compressed and accelerated time that has "sped up" society dramatically since the late 1970s. Network time has changed the mechanics and institutions of knowledge production in society to an unprecedented degree and extent. How we think, what we think, and what we consider to be "useful" and "legitimate" knowledge is changing in ways (and at a rate) that poses serious problems for mass culture and civil society.

Autor

The Author: Robert Hassan is Research Fellow in Media and Communications at the Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia. The author of Media, Culture and the Network Society (2003), he has published widely in journals on media, time and information technologies and their relationships to culture and politics.

Produktdetails

• Digital Formations 17
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 66707
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 160mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9780820467078
• ISBN-10: 0820467073
• Artikelnr.: 23898758

Rezensionen

«With this superbly crafted book, Robert Hassan has created an academic rarity: scholarly research that can be read for pleasure. Hassan skillfully guides his readers through the intricate terrain of the networked information economy, a territory that is both eminently familiar and profoundly unfamiliar. He takes them inside the chronoscopic society, lays bare its inner workings, makes tangible the open future of potential impacts and in the process opens up spaces for critical engagement.» (Barbara Adam, Cardiff University)
«A lively, exciting engagement with an array of fascinating issues. Robert Hassan has a flair for making complex ideas accessible without blunting the sharp edge of his critique.» (Stuart Allan, University of the West of England, Bristol)