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

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

3. 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

4. Time and space space has become abstract
space is disconnected from place
examples: organization of cities
organization of offices, homes

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Time and space
the construction of identity through media

10. 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

11. 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

12. Appadurai scapes (or flows) to analyse globalization:
ethnoscape, financescape, technoscape, ideoscapes,culturescapes
(Arjun Appadurai)

13. Global and local the global and the local interact: the glocal
the challenge of the global to local

14. 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’

15. Global and local more access to information and communication
global village refers to the local or glocal
risks: communication is reduced
-unification of cultures

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

17. 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)