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Judy Wajcman 出版社: University Of Chicago Press 副标题: The Acceleration of Life in Digital Capitalism 出版年: 2014-12-3 页数: 224 定价: USD 24.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780226196473
The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the ...
The technologically tethered, iPhone-addicted figure is an image we can easily conjure. Most of us complain that there aren't enough hours in the day and too many e-mails in our thumb-accessible inboxes. This widespread perception that life is faster than it used to be is now ingrained in our culture, and smartphones and the Internet are continually being blamed. But isn't the sole purpose of the smartphone to give us such quick access to people and information that we'll be free to do other things? Isn't technology supposed to make our lives easier?
In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the priorities and parameters we ourselves set rather than the machines that help us set them. Indeed, being busy and having action-packed lives has become valorized by our productivity driven culture. Wajcman offers a bracing historical perspective, exploring the commodification of clock time, and how the speed of the industrial age became identified with progress. She also delves into the ways time-use differs for diverse groups in modern societies, showing how changes in work patterns, family arrangements, and parenting all affect time stress. Bringing together empirical research on time use and theoretical debates about dramatic digital developments, this accessible and engaging book will leave readers better versed in how to us
作者简介
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Judy Wajcman is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, the author of TechnoFeminism, and the coauthor of The Social Shaping of Technology and The Politics of Working Life.
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tools for Time
1 High-Speed Society: Is the Pace of Life Accelerating?
2 Time and Motion: Machines and the Making of Modernity
3 The Time-Pressure Paradox
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Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Tools for Time
1 High-Speed Society: Is the Pace of Life Accelerating?
2 Time and Motion: Machines and the Making of Modernity
3 The Time-Pressure Paradox
4 Working with Constant Connectivity
5 Doing Domestic Time
6 Time to Talk: Intimacy through Technology
7 Finding Time in a Digital Age
Notes
Index
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According to Thompson, prior to industrialization, people depended on “natural rhythms” oriented to a variety of tasks related to an agricultural economy, task-oriented time. These older notations were replaced by a new manufacturers’ time, a commodity measured in monetary terms and regarded as precious. He saw this as the result both of advances in timekeeping and of a Puritan ethic which helped people internalize the idea that time was not to be wasted. By the nineteenth century, according to Thompson, the idea of time thrift had become culturally embedded. Traditional rhythms began to look indolent and even primitive. The division and synchronization of labor became the norm in many manufacturing sites and, over the course of a century, manufacturers’ time came to seem natural. (查看原文)
The problem, as I will show, is that theories about social acceleration are too schematic to capture the multiple temporal landscapes, both fast and slow, that come into play with digital devices. The prose is all about "virtual" networks and ubiquitous computing, which are conceived of as borderless disembodied spaces and ethereal instantaneous times. This has the effect of rendering invisible the tangible human and social time dimensions of everyday life as "banal, repetitive, and trivial." In other words, the quotidian time of intersubjectivity, in which actual women and men coordinate their time practices in real-world contexts, gets completely obscured. (查看原文)
Time作为sociotechnical, Ch.4的部分最喜欢（可能是因为这章针对ICT在工作场所的实践和前两天看的一篇reassembling Health Code的文章很相似……）。
/Judy Wacjman在17年还有本sociology of speed的书（时间好像在这两年挺火的？），btw那本Techno Feminism竟然是她写的……
Time作为sociotechnical, Ch.4的部分最喜欢（可能是因为这章针对ICT在工作场所的实践和前两天看的一篇reassembling Health Code的文章很相似……）。
/Judy Wacjman在17年还有本sociology of speed的书（时间好像在这两年挺火的？），btw那本Techno Feminism竟然是她写的……
2 有用 维Cc 2020-08-30 09:58:11
本书开始于这样一个问题：我们总是期望技术能够解放生产力带来更多的空闲时间，但是为何我们总是经常感到时间的稀缺和紧迫？通过回顾历史（第二章），检视宏观统计数据（第三章）、工作场所中对ICT（主要是电子邮件）的使用实践（第四章）、家庭内部对家用电器的使用（第五章），手机在工作与生活平衡中的角色（第六章）作者给出的回答是技术确实带来了生产力的提高，但时间紧迫并非只单纯的技术问题，很多面向的因素都会导致时... 本书开始于这样一个问题：我们总是期望技术能够解放生产力带来更多的空闲时间，但是为何我们总是经常感到时间的稀缺和紧迫？通过回顾历史（第二章），检视宏观统计数据（第三章）、工作场所中对ICT（主要是电子邮件）的使用实践（第四章）、家庭内部对家用电器的使用（第五章），手机在工作与生活平衡中的角色（第六章）作者给出的回答是技术确实带来了生产力的提高，但时间紧迫并非只单纯的技术问题，很多面向的因素都会导致时间的不同感觉，例如家庭构成、性别差异、生活方式等等。(豆瓣短评的字数限制真蛋疼，不写了) (展开)
0 有用 真猪奶茶 2018-01-29 11:32:28
timely
0 有用 Prunus d 2022-02-02 06:10:59
我觉得很好，把技术作为 sociomaterial network 的概念讲得不错。用“时间技术”的历史做铺垫（主要是上班打卡），后面谈了各种交流通信技术如何与社会文化共同作用，形塑了人们的时间感知和与周遭世界的关系。唯一美中不足的是，对于“决定论”的反驳不是特别有力，对于“共塑”的分析稍微薄了一点。看在我前校的脸面上给五星了（。
0 有用 angry crane 2022-05-13 11:27:29
Time作为sociotechnical, Ch.4的部分最喜欢（可能是因为这章针对ICT在工作场所的实践和前两天看的一篇reassembling Health Code的文章很相似……）。 /Judy Wacjman在17年还有本sociology of speed的书（时间好像在这两年挺火的？），btw那本Techno Feminism竟然是她写的……
0 有用 momo 2023-05-09 09:00:58 英国
老师的作品，如果不是为了考试看的话应该会更享受一点…
0 有用 momo 2023-05-09 09:00:58 英国
老师的作品，如果不是为了考试看的话应该会更享受一点…
0 有用 angry crane 2022-05-13 11:27:29
Time作为sociotechnical, Ch.4的部分最喜欢（可能是因为这章针对ICT在工作场所的实践和前两天看的一篇reassembling Health Code的文章很相似……）。 /Judy Wacjman在17年还有本sociology of speed的书（时间好像在这两年挺火的？），btw那本Techno Feminism竟然是她写的……
0 有用 Prunus d 2022-02-02 06:10:59
我觉得很好，把技术作为 sociomaterial network 的概念讲得不错。用“时间技术”的历史做铺垫（主要是上班打卡），后面谈了各种交流通信技术如何与社会文化共同作用，形塑了人们的时间感知和与周遭世界的关系。唯一美中不足的是，对于“决定论”的反驳不是特别有力，对于“共塑”的分析稍微薄了一点。看在我前校的脸面上给五星了（。
0 有用 oees 2021-01-02 12:28:38
“为什么我们用数码设备来缓解时间压力，却又把时间的浪费归咎于它们”
2 有用 维Cc 2020-08-30 09:58:11
本书开始于这样一个问题：我们总是期望技术能够解放生产力带来更多的空闲时间，但是为何我们总是经常感到时间的稀缺和紧迫？通过回顾历史（第二章），检视宏观统计数据（第三章）、工作场所中对ICT（主要是电子邮件）的使用实践（第四章）、家庭内部对家用电器的使用（第五章），手机在工作与生活平衡中的角色（第六章）作者给出的回答是技术确实带来了生产力的提高，但时间紧迫并非只单纯的技术问题，很多面向的因素都会导致时... 本书开始于这样一个问题：我们总是期望技术能够解放生产力带来更多的空闲时间，但是为何我们总是经常感到时间的稀缺和紧迫？通过回顾历史（第二章），检视宏观统计数据（第三章）、工作场所中对ICT（主要是电子邮件）的使用实践（第四章）、家庭内部对家用电器的使用（第五章），手机在工作与生活平衡中的角色（第六章）作者给出的回答是技术确实带来了生产力的提高，但时间紧迫并非只单纯的技术问题，很多面向的因素都会导致时间的不同感觉，例如家庭构成、性别差异、生活方式等等。(豆瓣短评的字数限制真蛋疼，不写了) (展开)