Asynchronicity

The Temporal Dimensions of the Information Crisis
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-132882-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 187 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 412 g

Reihe: De Gruyter Contemporary Social Sciences

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Digital Media, Culture and Communication

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pond, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Pond is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he convenes the Fighting Harmful Online Communication research initiative. He specialises in the study of software, time and informational crisis and is author of three books.

Philip Pond is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where he convenes the Fighting Harmful Online Communication research initiative. He specialises in the study of software, time and informational crisis and is author of three books.