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The new time and space / John Potts, Macquarie University, Australia.

Title
The new time and space / John Potts, Macquarie University, Australia.
Author
Potts, John, 1959-
Publication
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

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vii, 185 pages; 23 cm
Summary
"The New Time and Space examines the ways in which the experience of time and space has been redefined in the contemporary era. Mobile phones, networked communications and freely accessible digital information have contributed to a shift in the way we understand time and space. There is a new virtual dimension to the public sphere, a new immaterial venue for social life. The book illustrates how, in this changed relationship to space, the virtual is layered onto the actual. Smartphone users are overwhelmed by a compulsion to check their messages, so that time becomes a montage of fractures. Interruption and distraction are the norm, as time is absorbed by an endless stream of messages and information"--
Subject
  • Digital media > Influence
  • Life sciences
  • NONFICTION / Media Studies
  • NONFICTION / Media Tie-In
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
  • Space > Philosophy
  • Space and time > Psychological aspects
  • Space and time in mass media
  • Space perception
  • Time > Philosophy
  • Time perception
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-179) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- A Brief History of Time and Space -- Theorising Time and Space -- 'No One is Where They Are': Virtual Time and Space -- Space and Displacement in Contemporary Art -- The Big Now and the Faraway then: Present, Past and Future in Contemporary Culture -- Public Intimacy: The Shrinking Space of Privacy -- Photography 2.0: Photos on the Loose -- Schizochronia: Time in Digital Sound -- Capsules of Time and Space: Video and Performance Art.
ISBN
  • 9781137494375 (hardback)
  • 1137494379 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2015019257
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library