TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pond,Philip
TI  - Asynchronicity: The Temporal Dimensions of the Information Crisis 
T2  - De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences ,
SN  - 9783111328829
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Digital Media
KW  - Information Crisis
KW  - Misinformation
KW  - Polarisation
KW  - Time
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of figures --; 1 Introduction --; Part I The meaning of time: a framework for temporal study --; 2 The meaning of time --; 3 The present --; 4 Perspective --; Part II Possibilities for temporal study --; 5 Acceleration --; 6 Polarisation --; 7 The datafied event --; 8 Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - Asynchronicity is a study of the information stress and its genesis in the accelerative dynamics of computation and automation. In simple terms, this volume illustrates how anti-democratic communication has become characteristic of our present social and political reality. This book is significant in two respects. By fully realising a general theory of social time, it advances temporal analysis as a mode of social enquiry. Grounding the production of time within the event-dynamics of media systems, it establishes a framework for analysing the temporal logics of digital media, and shows that they may be fundamentally incompatible with the requirements of democratic communication
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111328850
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111328850
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783111328850/original
ER  -