Time and space

Helena TapperAugust the 1st, 2000

Time and space

Harold Innis:time -biased cultures and media:emphasize tradition, continuity and

communitysocieties are hierarchial, knowledge

monopolies in these societies

Time and space

space-biased cultures and societiespresent- and future-orientationempires, emphasize science and

technologysecular culturestoday: fragmented timetime is reduced to a series of

disconnected events

Time and space

space has become abstractspace is disconnected from placeexamples: organization of citiesorganization of offices, homes

Castells and space of flows

’space of flows is the material support of time-sharing social practices that are simultaneous in time

a. the first layer is constructed by ’the net’ or electronic impulses

b. the second layer is constituted by nodes and hubs (globally)

c. the third layer is organization of the dominant elites (managerial)

Castells and space of flows

1. technology infrastructure and the information technology that constructs that infrastructure

2. nodes and hubs: global cities and national and regional nodes (centers)

3. spatial organization of the dominant material elites

Castells and space of flows

technological-managerial elites occupy the leading poisitions in our societies

dominat (global) elite has power to organize the material infrastructure to support their decision-making

technological flowsfinancial flowsimage and communication flowsflows of organizational infrastructure

Time and space

changes in the media landscapes:more channels-more information?-

more entertainment?concentration of the mediaconversion of the media to content

providersfragmented and individual uses of the

media

Time and space

the construction of identity through media

Castells and time

timeless time:modernity is the dominance of clock

time over society and space (Giddens, Harvey, Lash and Urry)

time as repetition of daily routines becomes universal

relativization of time

Castells and time

timeless time: time has value in use context

tends to escape from the real context of place

the network society is breaking down the rythmicity of time in biological and social terms during one’s lifecycle

random events, instancy, discontinuity

Appadurai

scapes (or flows) to analyse globalization:

ethnoscape, financescape, technoscape, ideoscapes,culturescapes

(Arjun Appadurai)

Global and local

the global and the local interact: the glocal

the challenge of the global to local

Global and local

Marshall McLuhan & global village’medium is the message’-ICT allows us to participate in the

world events in real time-we are disconnected from space-’media are our extensions’

Global and local

more access to information and communication

global village refers to the local or glocal

risks: communication is reduced -unification of cultures

Global village

local village (local communication):-face-to- face communication-personal-time & space are connected-’trust’-tradition-’real’

Global village

global communication:-mediated-less personal (identity can be hidden)-media (including the net) hides the

source of information the growth of access to events in real

time (global events)