Asynchronicity

The Temporal Dimensions of the Information Crisis

von Philip Pond

187 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Kultur- und Medienwissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• ISBN: 9783111328829
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.11.2024
• Größe: 23 x 15.5 cm
• Verlag: De Gruyter