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Asynchronicity : The Temporal Dimensions of the Information Crisis / Philip Pond.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences ; 42Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2024]Copyright date: 2025Description: 1 online resource (VII, 187 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783111328829
  • 9783111329192
  • 9783111328850
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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