Asynchronicity: The Temporal Dimensions of the Information Crisis

By Philip Pond

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3111328821
• ISBN13: 9783111328829
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"