Digital Timescapes - Technology, Temporality and Society

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Digital technologies are profoundly reshaping the temporal experiences of individuals, households, and organizations. We now expect instant access to vast information, the ability to purchase goods with a click, and rapid delivery, while time management apps and locative media have transformed everyday scheduling and mobility. This work argues that we have entered a new era where the production and experience of time differ significantly from the pre-digital age. The author provides a comprehensive overview of this transition, illustrating how various digital technologies are reconfiguring daily temporalities. Key areas of focus include the temporalities related to history and memory, politics and policy, governance, mobility and logistics, planning and development, and work and labor. Additionally, the text explores how to challenge and reorder the power dynamics of digitally mediated time through an ethics of temporal care and justice. Rich in conceptual and empirical insights, this work serves as a vital guide to understanding our contemporary temporal landscape, appealing to students and scholars across Media Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Human Geography, and History and Memory Studies, as well as those interested in the societal transformations driven by digital technologies.