Media & Communications - Projects

Time out of mind? Australians' experience of time in the network society

Robert Hassan has received ARC funding to conduct this Postdoctoral Research Fellow project.

Computer-mediated communication is profoundly affecting the ways in which individuals live. The rapidity of the process has left many changes unexplored and under-analysed. The project will comprise a three-year ethnographic study to uncover the ways in which people think about time, about electronic networks, and by what means these influence how they make sense of their lives, their work and their relationships in a fast-changing and globalising world. The project will result in an international workshop on "Time and Networks", an edited collection of articles from workshop participants, and an internationally published book on the project's findings.