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== | ==1) ''Beschleunigung und Entfremdung: Entwurf einer kritischen Theorie spätmoderner Zeitlichkeit / Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity '' by Hartmut Rosa== | ||
''<nowiki>#</nowiki>Themes: Sociology, Political Science''<br><br> | ''<nowiki>#</nowiki>Themes: Sociology, Political Science''<br><br> | ||
Hartmut Rosa argues that that social acceleration by the mechanisms that shape society: technical expansion, pace of life, and social change. He starts by explaining time is per- and conceived. He compares it to the term of velocity in Physics and states that Social velocity is a change in a society’s position (or state) over time. Therefore social acceleration is change in state over time over time. It’s this acceleration and its meaning that Rosa seeks to define. He is making an overview of individual accelerations in technical expansion (from 0 to Internet in 50 years), the pace of life (most poignantly how most people have acclimated to rampant multi-tasking) and in social change (i.e., a culture’s change from conservation to progressive and back again over the course of a few years). | Hartmut Rosa argues that that social acceleration by the mechanisms that shape society: technical expansion, pace of life, and social change. He starts by explaining time is per- and conceived. He compares it to the term of velocity in Physics and states that Social velocity is a change in a society’s position (or state) over time. Therefore social acceleration is change in state over time over time. It’s this acceleration and its meaning that Rosa seeks to define. He is making an overview of individual accelerations in technical expansion (from 0 to Internet in 50 years), the pace of life (most poignantly how most people have acclimated to rampant multi-tasking) and in social change (i.e., a culture’s change from conservation to progressive and back again over the course of a few years). | ||
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*it reflects on everybody’s lives: what is being invented, done and perceived | *it reflects on everybody’s lives: what is being invented, done and perceived | ||
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==2) ''Essential McLuhan'' by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone== | ==2) ''Essential McLuhan'' by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone== | ||
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*Throws the light on nowadays reception of information | *Throws the light on nowadays reception of information | ||
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==3) ''Wasting Time on the Internet'' by Kenneth Goldsmith== | ==3) ''Wasting Time on the Internet'' by Kenneth Goldsmith== | ||
Revision as of 20:54, 10 October 2019
Annotated Bibliography
1) Beschleunigung und Entfremdung: Entwurf einer kritischen Theorie spätmoderner Zeitlichkeit / Social Acceleration: A New Theory of Modernity by Hartmut Rosa
#Themes: Sociology, Political Science
Hartmut Rosa argues that that social acceleration by the mechanisms that shape society: technical expansion, pace of life, and social change. He starts by explaining time is per- and conceived. He compares it to the term of velocity in Physics and states that Social velocity is a change in a society’s position (or state) over time. Therefore social acceleration is change in state over time over time. It’s this acceleration and its meaning that Rosa seeks to define. He is making an overview of individual accelerations in technical expansion (from 0 to Internet in 50 years), the pace of life (most poignantly how most people have acclimated to rampant multi-tasking) and in social change (i.e., a culture’s change from conservation to progressive and back again over the course of a few years).
However he argues that the growth of human societies has boundaries in the form of natural geophysical, anthropological, and biological limitations in both the species and the universe. Therefore the acceleration can not take place to infinity.
Notes on how this text could be relevant to my research:
- it reflects on everybody’s lives: what is being invented, done and perceived
2) Essential McLuhan by Eric McLuhan and Frank Zingrone
#Themes: Reception of Information, Culture Criticism, Television Commercials
Kenneth Goldsmith is setting up an interesting hypothesis: he is claiming, that people do not read less in overall, but the omnipresence of digital media is causing the opposite. He is stating that daily news, Facebook statuses or the fast Twitter notification on the smartphones are making everyone read more, like no print medium would have been able to. That is why the amount of reading would have even increased; only the way of reading has changed. (Goldsmith, 2016, p. 4)
Notes on how this text could be relevant to my research:
- Throws the light on nowadays reception of information
3) Wasting Time on the Internet by Kenneth Goldsmith
#Themes: Social Media, Reception of Information, Journalism
Kenneth Goldsmith is setting up an interesting hypothesis: he is claiming, that people do not read less in overall, but the omnipresence of digital media is causing the opposite. He is stating that daily news, Facebook statuses or the fast Twitter notification on the smartphones are making everyone read more, like no print medium would have been able to. That is why the amount of reading would have even increased; only the way of reading has changed. (Goldsmith, 2016, p. 4)
Notes on how this text could be relevant to my research:
- Throws the light on nowadays reception of information
4) Software organism BA Research Project by Susanne Janssen
#Themes: UI/UX, Reception of Information
Susanne Janssen was researching the experience of software, as well as user-interfaces. She tried to dissect this complicated subject into a video, with the aim to create accessibility and raising a discourse.
She is claming that the User has a desire for immediacy. Apple responded to this immediacy with flattening its Interface (since the introduction of the Aqua-themed GUI in 2000) in an attempt to gain neutrality. A false neutrality as she calls it. ‘The user-interface makes us feel like we are in control of our device, by clicking, dragging and saving, while at the same time it is the design of the interface and software behind it that decides for us what we can do.’ (Janssen, 2019)
Notes on how this text could be relevant to my research:
- picks up on Quintilians idea, that a selection of information is simultaneously a manipulation of information
References
EAMES, C. and R. (1953) A Communications Primer [online]. Available at: https://archive.org/details/communications_primer (Accessed: 23 May 2019)
FLUSSER, V. (2000) Towards a philosophy of photography. 1st ed. London: Reaktion Books
GOLDSMITH, K. (2016) Wasting Time on the Internet. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers
ROSA, Hartmut. (2016) Beschleunigung und Entfremdung: Entwurf einer kritischen Theorie spätmoderner Zeitlichkeit. 5. Auflage. – Berlin : Suhrkamp
JANSSEN, S. (2019) Software organism BA Research Project [online]. Available at: http://www.susannejanssen.eu/software-organism-ba-research (Accessed: 07 October 2019)