Digital Timescapes

Rob Kitchin is a professor in the Maynooth University Social Sciences Institute.

• Preface Acknowledgements List of Tables Part I: The nature of time and temporalities1 Time, temporality and timescapes2 Digital technologies and temporalities Part II: Digital timescapes 3 History and memory 4 Politics and policy5 Governance and governmentality 6 Mobility and logistics 7 Planning and development 8 Work and labour Part III: Remaking digital timescapes 9 Temporal power and its consequences 10 Transforming temporal power 11 Making sense of digital timescapes ReferencesIndex

"A book rich with insights on the inexorable relationship between time, technology and power. Kitchin maps the unevenness of time in digital culture while he also reveals the inequitable unevenness, and a possible way out, of the types of time that continue to dominate the study of time."Sarah Sharma, University of Toronto"A much-needed book that updates and rethinks the time-technology nexus. Rob Kitchin provides an eloquent and accessible theory of time from the perspective of human geography. It was about time; we have been waiting far too long."Anne Kaun, Professor in Media and Communication Studies, Department for Media and Communication Studies, School of Culture and Education"Kitchin conducts a tour de force of scholarship on the concept of time...It sets a new research agenda for geographical research for a new generation of scholars. It is a book that will be of great interest to many interdisciplinary scholars on time, space and the digital."Ayona Datta, Space and Polity"Rob Kitchin’s new book Digital Timescapes: Technology, Temporality and Society (2023) is structured around a gap, or as he puts it in the preface ‘a significant omission’. The book is not only a synoptic treatment but also a response to something implicit in Kitchin’s analysis: namely time."Benjamin N. Jacobsen, Space and Polity"Rob Kitchin’s Digital Timescapes is a masterful exploration of the temporal dimensions of digital technologies....offers fresh insights into the complex and multifaceted nature of time in the digital age and will be of interest to both time theorists and practitioners across a range of disciplines."Judy Wajcman"...offers a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the intersection of digital technologies and temporality."Yujie Dong, Information, Communication & Society