Helena Tapper August the 1st, 2000 Time and space Helena Tapper August the 1st, 2000

Time and space Harold Innis: time -biased cultures and media: emphasize tradition, continuity and community societies are hierarchial, knowledge monopolies in these societies

Time and space space-biased cultures and societies present- and future-orientation empires, emphasize science and technology secular cultures today: fragmented time time is reduced to a series of disconnected events

Time and space space has become abstract space is disconnected from place examples: organization of cities organization 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 flows financial flows image and communication flows flows of organizational infrastructure

Time and space changes in the media landscapes: more channels-more information?-more entertainment? concentration of the media conversion of the media to content providers fragmented 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)