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Robert Hassan is a Research Fellow in the Media and Communications Program at the University of Melbourne. Ronald E. Purser is a Professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University.

"This collection of thought-provoking essays addresses the relationship between contemporary times and technology, especially cybertechnology. In doing so, the essays demonstrate so very well Elliott Jaques' statement of the ultimate justification for studying time: "In the form of time is to be found the form of living.'' For by developing this collection, Hassan and Purser—and the essays' authors—have made an important contribution to understanding both time and life in the early 21st century."—Allen C. Bluedorn, author of The Human Organization of Time: Temporal Realities and Experience, University of Missouri-Columbia "The authors gathered here are among the leading theorists of the new shift in dimensional thought. Original, provocative, and sophisticated, their arguments will have a profound impact on social theorists and the emerging generation of digital scholars."—Sean Cubitt, University of Melbourne

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Foreword @tocca:Barbara Adamiii @toc4:Contributorsiii @toc2:Introduction @tocca:Robert Hassan and Ronald E. Purser1 @toc1:Part 1. Time in the Network Society @toc2:1New Temporal Perspectives in the "High-Speed Society" @tocca:Carmen Leccardi000 @toc2:2Network Time @tocca:Robert Hassan000 @toc2:3Speed = Distance/Time: Chronotopographies of Action @tocca:Mike Crang000 @toc2:4Protocols and the Irreducible Traces of Embodiment: The Viterbi Algorithm and the Mosaic of Machine Time @tocca:Adrian Mackenzie000 @toc1:Part 2. Digital Time: Temporal Dimensions of Media and Culture @toc2:5Truth at Twelve Thousand Frames per Second: The Matrix and Time-Image Cinema @tocca:Darren Tofts000 @toc2:6The Fallen Present: Time in the Mix @tocca:Andrew Murphie000 @toc2:7Stacking and Continuity: On Temporal Regimes in Popular Culture @tocca:Thomas Hylland Eriksen000 @toc1:Part 3. Temporal Presence @toc2:8Indifference of the Networked Presence: On Time Management of the Self @tocca:Geert Lovink000 @toc2:9The Presence of Others: Network Experience as an Antidote to the Subjectivity of Time @tocca:Jack Petranker000 @toc2:10CyberLack @tocca:David R. Loy000 @toc1:Part 4. Time in the Network Economy @toc2:11Time Robbers, Time Rebels: Limits to Fast Capital @tocca:Ben Agger000 @toc2:12Finding Time and Place for Trust in ICT Network Organizations @tocca:Hans R'm'000 @toc2:13The Clock-Time Paradox: Time Regimes in the Network Society @tocca:Ida H. J. Sabelis000 @toc4:Index000